The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-05-11
Two Seats.

You are all acquainted with her, or
have, at least, met her somewhere in
your travels.
The woman who occupies two seats
in the railway car.
She is generally fieshy Ono disrespect
to tleshy people. for we rather admire
them), and she wears her hair in finger
puffs, and her hair is generally gray Ono
disrespect to gray hair, for we expect
our own will be gray if we live long
enough, and she has as many packages
as she has fingers and toes, including
sachel and two sizes of umbrellas.
She turns one seat over so as to bring
the two she proposes to occupy facing
each other, and she piles all the bun
dies except five or six on the one seat,
while she places herself in the other
seat and puts the remainder of the
bundles down beside her.
This accomplished, she takes a book
or newspaper and goes to reading, and
until everybody has got seated, or dis
posed of somehow, nothing short of an
earthquake would induce her to look up.
Mild-mannered, timid men walk along
past her looking for a seat but dare not
her breastwork of bags and bundles.
Ladies with sachels and bandboxes,
and mothers with heavy babies, pass
her by; they have not pluck enough to
PROFOUND the query: This seat en-
gaged?"
They see that it is very completely
engaged.
Men accustomed to emergencies pause
beside the lady of two seats and say to
each other: "There is a seatr" but not
one of a hundred of them has the courage
to seize upon that baggage and trans
port it to the baggage-rack. They all
know that they have right to do it,
but it is one of those rights which no.
body exactly likes to assert.
Perhaps some one more desperate
than any who have preceded him vent
ures the query:
"This seat engaged?" and our wom-
an of two seats looks at him full min
ute, and then replies, with dignity and
emphasis: &c 1t Is -
Who dares to dispute a woman's
word? He must be brave indeed who
would attempt it anywhere, except in
the privacy of the domestic fireside,
where he can be prepared to start for
downtown" at moments warning.
Travelling long distance into the
west some few years ago, we journeyed
in the same car with a woman of two
seats, and we heard her tell four seat
seekers that her extra seat was cen
gagged for a friend" but the friend
must have been summer friend,n
for he never put in an appearance, and
the lady occupied the two seats until
the end of her journey.
Occasionally a man is found who
shows courage.
On the Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern Railroad we once saw one of those
heroes. He was middle-aged, and lank,
and looked as if among the Michigan
pine stumps he might be equal to any
patented stump-puller ever invented.
He was chewing away at high-pres
ure rate on wad of "fine cut" and
squirting the juice thereof without re-
gard to surroundings.
He was looking for seat.
They were all taken except one, and
that one occupied by lady in just the
way we have described. Our lean friend
olOppcu, dLu lOOhcu dJ HeT.
"Say therer' cried he in a voice of
very shrill treble, 81 want that air set
ting-down placer
sit is engagedr' said she, with freez-
ing hauteur.
"Have you paid for it?" asked he.
No answer, but her nose went up tif-
teen degrees.
81 have" continued the lank man,
land here's the pasteboard, display
ing his ticket, and forthwith he began
to pile the bundles, and bags, and
boxes on the seat beside the lady, and
the tobacco juice flew around in every
direction while he was about it.
As he turned the seat over, and sank
into it with grunt of satisfaction, the
lady remarked, andibly:
you're hog!''
B'long to your own familyr' said
the lean man, and the passengers
laughed; and, at the next station. the
lady left the car for another. where, she
hoped, seats were plentier.
To sum up:
No one has right to deny seat to
any person who is standing, unless it is
engaged by bona tide individual, who
will claim it at once.
No one has a right to pile bundles on
seats, unless he or she has paid the
price of ticket for each seat.
And no lady or gentleman will want
to keep for moment the seat beside
her or him, from the standing passen-
ger, who needs it, and who has a right.
to it.-KGte Thorn, in ~ Y. WeekLy.
NO WEIGHT was used in hanging
by Texas mob, for the reason that
man was suspended by moose at each