The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-12-02
MANS 1Nc1v1L1rY TO WOMAN.
NJ. Quad, in the New York GRAPH

MANS INCIvILITY TO WOMAN.
NJ. Quad, in the New York GRAPH
&c, says; I have great respect for
Miss Anna Dickinson. True, she can't
bake loaf of bread, darn a sock, put
down carpet or sift pumpkin, but on
the other hand, she refuses to wear .
hustle, is not affected. and agrees with
me that goats are a great nuisance in
cities. :
I saw the other day an assertion by
Miss Dickinson that the present gen.
Grafton of men, both married and sim
gle, was terribly selfish generation,
and she added complaint of general
lack of civility toward unprotected fe-
males. I don't want to deny that I
am man, nor yet deny Miss Dickin-
sons assertion. I want to explain.
When I got into an omnibus in Chi
cago one evening not long ago, to
change over to another depot, some
ones maiden aunt was my fellow
passenger. She had three or four bum
dies and trunk to come by the bag
gage wagon, and she was not hand
some woman nor young woman. If
I was to be put on oath I'd swear that
she was one of the homeliest women I
ever saw, and I've been all over New
Jersey and Indiana.
knew the woman had to change
cars, and knew she ought to be glad
of little help, SO slid along the seat
and asked: "Going east? ?' ts
She didn't reply, and, thinking she
might be little deaf, I called out
again; -. .'''-'
"Going east ?"
She whirled around, gave me look
of rage and contempt, and Missed out :
II know you, young man, and if
you speak to me again I'll have you
jailed!" =.
There I was, trying to be civil and
to disprove Miss Dickinson's assertion.
and the woman took me for a pick
pocket or a murderer! I made anoth-
er effort when we reached the depot ,
saying:
Madam, I am going east, and il
you take the same train I'll cheerfully
show you the ticket office and help you
to get your baggage checked"
''I'n help you if you don't get away
from mel" she snarled, and if she add
ed that if justice were done I'd be in
the penitentiary.
She got confused in the crowd, and
failed to find her trunk, and, when the
train went out she was cantering
around the depot with the certainty t
having to wait there eight long hours
for another train. 1 could have had
her aboard the train with five minutes
to spare, but she wouldn't let me and
I expect some day that she will pu&-
lish an assertion that men are uncivi,
and selfish.
When the clouds gathered the other
night and the rain came pouring down
had an umbrella. This may seem
Incredible to umbrella owners, but l
am on oath, Remembering Miss Dick
inson's assertion, and overtaking lady
with new hat aud choice raiment on, /,
[ said:
MADAM, shall be glad to loan you
my umbrella. You can send it to me
in the morning."
"Yes, know you would" she snarl-
ed in reply.
"Take it please, and save your new
hat"
She halted, turned around, and then
and there remarked as follows:
"It's none of your business about
my hat, and if you don't leave me I'll
have you arrested"
Now, I may be ugly in looks. but she
couldn't have seen it on account of the
darkness, and no one has right to
judge of peoples motives by high
keyed or low-keyed voice. I wanted
to be civil and obliging, and would
cheerfully have suffered rheumatic
twinges in order to save her raiment,
but she would not let me.
Two or three weeks ago, as I sat In
a passenger coach, with a young lady
in the seat next ahead, suddenly re-
membered than the magazine which I
had finished an hour before might
help to relieve the monotony of her
Journey. I passed it over with the re-
mark;
"Perhaps this may help you to while
away the time" =
She turned square around, her eyes
flashed, and she spitefully hissed:
How dare you speak to me ?"
There had it, but l am naturally
obstinate, and 1 replied:
"I merely wished to be courteous"
She turned around again, and again
her eyes flashed as she said,
eff you speak to me again I'll tell
the conductor"
Now, then, assert on my solemn
oath that the girl has over 700 freckles
on her face, stub nose, red hair, a
long, bony neck, and two of her front
teeth were gone. She couldn't have
reasoned that I was struck with her
beauty, or was about to propose an
eIopement, or intended to follow her
and carry her to some cave, just as
novelists have pirates and hrigands do.
I'd like Miss Dickinson to explain
why she wouldn't let me be obliging
and civil.
These are not the only cases. I've
beeu rebuked so often that now when
see woman galloping around the
depot, to fall over satchels and run over
trunks in her wild efforts to find her