Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-03-05
Hammocks s,r Girls In the Carr.

An advertisement before US, in an ex-
change, looks as though it was a good
thing, but we are little skeptical. Tho
article is ''car-scat 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 ham,
mock is q young lady asleep. and over
the picture are the words: Sleep, dar-
ling, sleep" The girl seems to DO
| asleep. with her foot in the stirrup of
the hammock, but there is a weird,
wicked wildness about her face that
conyinccs the beholder that she is wide
+! awake. Such hammock might be
made TO work in al empty car ou;a side
track, but in a car running forty miles
an hour that girl would get spilled out
on the door. In the FIRST place, the per-
son with 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 nice sight, wouldn't it, to
| zee a girl come into crowded car,
| cause passengers 10 move out of a
couple of seats, then swing her ham
mock and get in aud so to sleep. lm-
agine such scene and listen to the
comments OF the passengers. The
drummer for the grocery house, sitting
| on the wood-box, would look at her and
say: ''She looks as though she had on
ly one lung. but she has two CALLS"
and would go up to the hammock and
say: 'ls this seat all occupieip' The
girl would open her eyes aud give him
a look that would cause him to pass on
to the smoking car in hurry. The
brakeman would go to the hammock
girl and touch her on the vaccination
mark and say: miss, yon 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: Cant you make
room for this gentleman?" and then she
would be mad. At stations along the
line of the road grangers would stand
on the platform and look in the win
dows at the curious spectacle, and as
the train moved of with the sleeping
beauty everybody would be tired except
the girl. Girls can think Of enough
WY w Cu a ANAAooN
train wish they were dead without har-
Messing 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 lis bad enough to drive along
the road and see girl swinging in u
hammock between two trees ON lawn.
where the distance from the object is so
great that you cannot tell whether the
stocking is silk or Isle thread, but TO
have 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 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 yelling
murder and calling for the brakeman
to uncoupie her foot. would be enough
to cause the hair of the average man to
turn gray on single trip. The giri in
a hammock, on cars. must go.--Bar-
linton Hasokeys.