The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-02-15
Hammocks for Girls in 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 q ''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 he
asleep, with her foot in the stirrup Of
the hammock, but there is weird,
wicked wildness about her face that
convinces the beholder that she is wide
awake. Such hammock might be
made to work in an empty car onla side
track, but in car running forty miles
an hour that girl would get spilled out
on the floor. 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 o friend Of the brakeman. 1t
would be q nice sight, wouldn't it, to
see girl come into a crowded car,
cause passengers TO move out of
couple of seats, then swing her ham,
mock and get in and 90 TO sleep. I'M
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: els this seat all occupied?' The
girl would open her eyes and give him
n look that would cause him to pass on
to the smoking car in hurry. The
brakeman 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 occupy this seat, I"
and she would paralyze the brakeman
with look, and he would 60 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 off with the sleeping
beauty everybody would be tired except
the girl. Girls can think of enough
ways to make passengers on q railroad
train wish they we're dead without har-
Messing themselves up in 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 a great
wrong. lis 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 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 q 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 shawl
rack amt her head on valise in the
corner, her wig : and the girl yelling
murder and calling f6f-shss en-, brakeman
to uncouple her foot, would lie eh6SSSn
to cause the hair of the average man to
turn gray on single trip. The girl in
a hammock. on cars, must go.-Bnr-
linton HdsOkeye.