Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-01-31
Hammoeks fer-sirls in the Cars.

Hamm0cks for~Gifls In the cars.
An advertisement before us in an ex-
change looks as though it was a good
thing, but we are a little skeptical. The
article is a s'car-seat hammock" and
there is a picture OF the hammock swung
from the back of one seat to the back Of
the seat ahead, and in the hammock Is q
young lady asleep, and over the picture
are the words ''Sleep, darling, Sleep
The girl seems to be asleep, with her foot
in the stirrup of the hammock, but there
Is a weird, wicked wildness about her
face that convinces the beholder that she
Is wide Awake. Such q hammock might
be made to work in an empty car o N a
side track, but in q car running forty
miles an hour that girl would get spilled
| on the floor. In the first place, the per-
| SON with the hammock has got to have
two whole seats. which no railroad COM
pany would allow unless the girl was a
friend of the brakeman. 1t would be a
nice sight, wouldn't it, to see a girl come
into a crowded car, cause passengers to
move u of a couple of seats, then swing
her hammock and get in and go to sleep.
Imagine such q scene, and listen to the
comments of the passengers. The drum
mer for the grocery house, sitting on the
wood-box, would look at her n say
"She looks as though she had only one
lung, but she has two CALLS" and woult
go up to the hammock and say, "Is this
seat all occupied?" The girl would oper
her eyes and give him a look that woult
cause him to pass on to the Smoking-caI
in a hurry. The brakeman would go t
the hammock girl and touch her on tn,
vaccination mark and say, "Miss, yo'
will nave to take down your circus ten
and let somebody help you occupy thi
seat" and she would paralyze the brake
man with u look, and he would 60 off an
send the conductor in. The conducto
would bring the big grocery drumme
with him and say, "Can't you max
, room for this gentleman" and then sh
j, would be mad. At stations along tn
line of the road grangers would stand O
. the platform and look in the windows 6
: the curious spectacle, and as the trai
, moved off with the sleeping beauty every
t body would be tired except the CIR
y Girls can think of enough ways to mai
passengers on a railroad train wish the
y were dead without Harvesting themsclvt
up in q hammock at the top of the seat
/ and an inventor who places additional fl
J. ~cilities in their possession by which the
are enabled to annoy travellers is doing
great wrong. 1t is bad enough to dri,
along the road and see a girl swinging
: a hammock between two trees on o law
Ii where the distance is SO great you ca
not tell whether the stocking is silk
Isle thread, but to have a girl in han
mock right across the aisle of 4 car wou
n be tantalizing, and the fear that SOM
thing would break and the beautif
- sleeper would drop down between Il
two seats, her body shut up like a iac
IS knife, one foot caught in the shawl RAJ
and her head on a valise' in the corner, h
wig off, and the girl yelling murder a.
:, calling for the brakeman to uncouple b
foot, would be enough to cause the hs
of the average man to turn gray on
d single trip. The girl in a hammock,
IS cars, must go.--Burlington Haeksys.