The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-03-27
street Oar Etiquette.

An old man, poorly dressed, entered 8
horfe car and locked around hlm for q
seat. 1t was al hour when many persons
were returning from their work down
town, and the car was filed with the usua]
assortment OF passengers. None of them
seemed to see the old man, who appeared
TO be feeble, greatly fatigued, and IN fea,
OF being thrown down by the notion of
the car. Pretty soon q woman who had
been looklag oyer written paper, appar.
entity bill for goods bought, raised hel
eyes and saw the old man. With hardly
a moments hesitation she arose, touched
him on the arm, and sald> 'sTalee this
seat sir."
The old nan accepted The seat, thanked
her and seemed very grateful. No one In
the car appeared to notice the woman's
act. The men who had seats allowed her
to stand.
''Did you see that2 we asked the con-
ductor.
"Ihe woman give the old man her seat9
Tbats common enough nova good deal
more'n 1t used to be. guess the older a
people grows the more respect they have
Tor old age. mean the older a country
Is. China js the oldest of all OF 'em, they
say, and there's no place where old men
and women are treated 40 well az among
the Chinese. It's part of their religion.
What you don't see very Often" the con
tuctor went on, after stopping his car to
take up "a fat women with market bas-
ket, 'fs one women give her seat to ano-
ther woman. When that happens you
can put it IN the papers. 1t amt very
common to sec woman move closer to
another passenger in order to make room
TOR another woman to sit down, or to see
her take her child in her lap, or even take
q bundle from the sent at her side, till the
conductor comes along and asks her to do
so, and then she generally looks at him as
though she had been grossly lnsulted, and
at the other woman as though she had been
the willing cause of the insult. Until the
conductor stlrs her up, she Is to all an.
pearance unconscious that ANYBODY ia
standing up, and she looks straight past
the standing woman, and seems to be TAX
Ing languid interest IN the fronts of the
buildings she sees through the windows In
the other side of the car"
''DO women remember to thank men
oftener then they used to for seats given
to them2"
"I've been on this road good manv
JSSA"3 eaS SohohSIol lCpilCu SOulCWnag
earnestly, sand never saw many women
take seat from man without expressing
their thanks IN some way. A woman
don't get up OH the seat and have the car
stopped, and call in the conductor. and
driver to hear her make speech of grati-
tude to the noble being who has sacrificed
SO mulch foS, her convenle,..51e. Aud she
don DuttonnOie him and tell him he has
done big thing, and that If he ever hap
pens to be going past her residence he
must come III and be introduced to her
husband and stay TO dinner. But she
usually saws, THANK you she incllncs her
head In acknowledgment OF his politeness.
which Is quite as much as he deserves.
The men who are always saying that they
have spont the best part of their lives CIV
log seats 10 women IN street cara, and
have never been thanked. are the ones who
never see woman standng until they are
within one block of the corner where
they're going to got out, and then thev
yield up their seats with great show OF
gallantry. They wouldn't be satisfied if
every woman who took their seats after
they were through with them should for
ward to their residences rolls of enerosscd
and illuminated parchments setting forth
their deep OBLIGATIONS