Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-05-01
THE CAR HAMMOCK.

An advertisement before MS, in an ex-
change, looks as though it was IA good
thing, but we are little skeptical. The
article is Gear seat hammock" and
there is picture of the hammock,
swung from the back of one seat to the
back of the seat ahead, and in the ham
mock is a young lady, asleep, and over
the picture are the words, sleep dar-
ling, 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 a hammock might be
made to work in an empty car on side
track, but in ear running forty miles
an hour that girl would get spilled out
on the floor. In the first place the per-
son with a hammock has got to have two
whole seats, which no railroad company
would allow, unless the girl was afriend
of the brakeman. It would be nice
sight, wouldn't it, to see girl come in
to q crowded car, on the St Paul road,
cause passengers to move-out Of n couple
of seats, then swing her hammock and
get in and go to sleep. Imagine such
scene, and listen to the comments of
the passengers. The drummer for the
grocery house, sitting on the woodbox,
would look at her and say, "Shc looks
as though she had only one lung, but
she has got two gals" and would go up
to the hammock and say, is this seat
all occupied" The girl would open her
eyes and give him look that would
cause him to pass on to the smoking ear
in hurry. The brakeman would 90
to the hammock girl and touch her on
the vaccination mark, and say, Miss,
you will have to take down your circus
tent and let somebody help you occupy
this seat" and she would paralyze the
brakeman with look, and he would go
off and send the conductor in. The
conductor would bring the big grocery
drummer with him, and say, "can't you
make room for this gentleman" and
then she would be mad. There is no
person that is more interested in the
sleep darling sleep" idea, than the
bald-headed sam man, but if he should
go into car and find that the only
chance for a seat was to drive a girl out
of a hammock, he would go up to her
and with frown that could not be mis-
taken, and would-pass on and lean
against the water cooler.
Girls can think of enough ways to
make passengers on railroad train
wish they were dead, without harness
ing themselves up in a hammock at the
top of the seats, and an inventor who
places additional facilities in their pos
session by which they are enabled to an
noy travellers, are doing a great wrong.
1t is bad enough to drive along the
road and see a girl swinging in ham
mock between two trees on lawn,
where the distance from the object is 50
great that you cannot tell whether the
stocking is silk or Isle thread, but to
have a girl in hammock right across
the aisle of a car, would be tantalizing,
and the fear that something would break
and that the beautiful sleeper would
drop down between the two seats, her
body shut up like jack knife. one foot
caught in the shawlrack, and her head
on valise in the corner, her wig off,
and the girl yelling murder and calling
for the brakeman to uncouple her foot,
would be enough to cause the hair of
the average man to turn gray on a
single trip. The girl in hammock, on
the cars, must go.-Peck's San.