River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-30
Coed Manners and Equal Rights

j., Editors Table: Good Company.
If you pay hall-a-dollar for admission
to 3eoncert or any other entertain
meut, you have right to the undis-
turbtsi enjoyment of that which you
pay for; and persons who con- tramp
ing iil.o the room while the entertain
meut is in progress, or who 90 tramp
ing sat before it is concluded, or who
by bS!9te and whispering prevent You
|. front hearing what you came to hear,
are fobbing you of that which belongs
to yDu. These persons would not, Of
course, steal half-a-dolar out of your
pock et-hook, but if they willfully spoil
that.which cost you half-a-dollar. their
act u essential larceny. Well-bred per-
SONG never do any Of these things, be-
cause well-bred persons are always
careful to respect the rights of others.
III YOU pay for one seat in a railway
car you are entitled to that one seat; but
if you occupy two seats, while any
perE0si who has paid for one seat has
no seat at all, You are simply robbing
that person of what belongs to him.
The writer of this not long ago saw
we'll dressed lady sit for IN hour and
look in the face OF an equally we'll
Dressed man who stood during all that
time aud held a child in his arms be-
cause there was no vacant seat in the
car save one in which this lady had
placed some small parcels Of hers, and
whiEh she did not offer relirquish.
The man had paid for the seat, and il
belonged to him. The lady lad
not paid for the seat and it did
not belong 10 her. She would have
been greatly insulted if she had been
called q robber, but what was she doing?
In come way she ought to have been
delieately admonished that to take what
does not belong to her is not one Of the
rights of woman, and that it is evidence
of a lack of good breeding.
You secure, by the = yment Of a good
rouad Gum, berth in a sleeping car
Ths4 should entitle you to Immunity
from disturbance by your fellow passen-
gers. Unhappily it does not always.
Not long ago a train stopped at mid
night in large town at the West where
it wS, to remain for twenty minutes.
Into the sleeping car If that train came
three passengers, two males and ie-
malc. 1t appeared that they had Just
met in the station, and on entering the
car they we're exchanging loud greetings.
They set down in one Of the sections
and went on with their conversation,
without any lowering Of their tones. The
porter Of the car was absent while the
lraip waited in the station, and al,
ter he returned he seemed to be too
timid 10 rebuke the talker, so they kept
on for the best pal Of an hour, talking
and laughing much louder after the
train started than before. The fact that
there were dozen other passengers in
the Car, all Of whom were in their berths
and all Of whom had purchased right
to sleep In the car, Was fact 81 which
they were utterly oblivious. Yet these
persons evidently belonged to @hat Is
called good society. Their language
was grammatical. their dress was fault
less one OF the males was clergyman.
Tx one of the London school districts
too many parents reported no children
in their families, and in order TO ascer-
tain the real number of children in the
district the school officers resorted To-
an ingenious measure. Two monkeys
were gayly dressed, put in wagon, and
ACCOMPANIED by brass band, were
carried through the streets Of the dis
trict. At once crowds of children made
their appearance. The procession WIS
stopped in PARK, and the school off,
GERS began their work; distributing can.
dies 10 the youngsters, they took their
names and addresses. They found ont
that over sixty parents kept their chill
dren from schools. The ingenious
measure brought to the fchools about
200 boys and girls