, 1878-03-02
AMERICAN YoUNG WOMEN.


Some or the Advantages that she Enjoys
It has often been affirmed, and with truth
that nowhere in the world may young
woman travel with greater security than II
America. Along the whole route she find;
men ready. to put themselves to personal III
convenience o OF re her, and who dO moi
presume on what they do toingratiate them.
selves. Men sep forward rs her protectors
as if it were according to law of the state
! instead of a custom, and were any one to
treat her wieh discourtesy defenders would
spring up on all Sides With chain Of con-
ductors she will pass from one end of the
| Union to the other, with perhaps more care
than If she were under the charge of rela-
tive. In this general attention with which
| the pretty woman Is surrounded 1t Is seldom
| there is an Interior motive, as there Is, for
| instance In country like France, where 1t
| is not safe for her to accept the proifered
| service of the other sex, for the Frenchman
| stands ready to make his declaration ON shght
provocation In America the recognition OF
her right to Difference in all her wishes, some
times, and particularly of late years, has led
her to claim as arigh. what was only extend
ed as courtesy Hence her neglect to re-
! turn thanks for the seat yielded up IN the
car: hence the growing reluctance IN the
man to resign his seat, IN the spirit OF the
turning worm which Will not DE trodden on
forever. This reluctance, however, Is con-
fined to the large cities. In the towns and
villages throughout the Union the man still
gives up his seat to woman, though he be
old and feeble and she be young and strong.
This is gallantry that costs something 1
L., lxp,x utT
extra seats with bundles that might have
been placed under the seat or hung up in the
racks while group of men stood, without
being able to rest themselves, and they never
complained Such an incident could hardly
occur III any other country. For three hours
these victims with aching limbs stood with
out a .nurmur, looking from time TO time to
the coveted seats occupied with the bundles,
not daring to hit mp a voice to ask for one.
Their faces showed plainly that they would
haze liked 10 sit down, bnt their exceeding
respec. for the sex would not permit them to
approach the indifferent young woman who
kept guard over the places with their traps
Ii did not even occur TO them to speak to
the conductor Had this situation presented
itself IN France, Gaul would have approach
ed this femme group hat IN hand, with allow
asking a thousand pardons, then he would
have quietly installed himself in the seat he
had paid for and to which he was entitled.
He would, OF course, have invested The act
| with much form he would have been dis
tressed beyond measure to have them move
their bundles, bccn dcsolatei at the trouble
he gave, but would individually have secured
his scat. On the other hand, supposinS his
advances to Lave been met with a refusal,
he wsuId have called tire conductor, aad
asked for seat or his money, and the dis
co.niitetl danes would have had to submit.
Now. were ~ American to meet with such 4
rebaf from the other sex, he would retreat
to another corner, without an idea of having
RECOURSE to the Official Of the train to claim
his nghts.-GatG'3.