Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-01-25
Hammocks for Girls ,u the Cars.

An advertisement before us in an ex-
change looks as though it was good
thing, but we are little skeptical. The
article is "car 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 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 ham
mock, but there is weird, wicked Wild
ness about her face that convinces the
beholder that she is wide awake. Such
q hammock might be made to work In
an empty car ON side track, but In q
car running forty miles an hour that
girl would be spilled out on the floor.
In the first place, the person with a
hammock has got to have two whole
seats, which no railroad company would
allow, unless the girl was friend of the
brakeman. 1t would be q nice sight,
wouldn't it, to see girl come into a
crowded car, cause the passengers to
move out of couple Of seats, then
swing her hammock and get in and go
to sleep. Imagine such scene and lis
ten to the comments of the passengers.
The drummer for the grocery house, sit
ting on the wood box, would look at her
and say: "She looks as though she had
only one lung but she has two CALLS"
and would 60 up to the hammock and
say Is this seat all occupied ?" The
girl would open her eyes and give him q
look that would cause him to pass on to
the smoking car in a hurry. The brake
man would 60 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 to occupy this seat" and she would
paralyze the brakeman with look, and
he would go off and get the conductor
i'm. The conductor would bring the big
grocery drummer with him and say:
Cant you make room for this gentle
manp" and then she would be mad. At
stations along the line of the road, gran
gers would stand on the platform and
look in the windows at the curious spec
tacle, and as the train moved of with
the sleeping beauty everybody would be
tired except the girl. Girls can think
of enough ways to make passengers on
a railroad train wish they were dead
without harnessing themselves up in a
hammock at the top Of the seats, and an
inventor who places additional facilities
in their possession by which they are
enabled to annoy travellers Is doing
great wrong. 1t is bad enough to drive
along the road and see girl swinging
in a hammock between two trees on a
lawn, where the distance from the OBJ
ject is SO great that you cannot tell
whether the stocking is silk or Isle
thread, but to have q girl in hammock
right across the aisle of 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 would shut up like
a Jack knife, one foot caught in the
shawl rack, and her head on valise In
the corner, her wig of, and the girl yell
ling bloody murder and calling for the
brakeman to uncouple her foot, would
be enough to cause the hair Of the aver
age man to turn gray on single trip.
The girl in a hammock, on the cars,
must go:-Burlington Hawkeye.