The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-19

THE SUFFRAGE RANTER WHO NEVER BUDGED.
1 have noticed that the men here who do
calamity get up and give their seats to ladies
are apt to be either western or southern. The
native New Yorker regards himself as too
great a creature altogether to put himself out
to make way for "mere women" whom in all
stations he considers his interiors. He has
patterned his manners after foreign examples
mostly, and of a very common order of ex-
amples at that No, New York is not Amer
lean. Tie soil it stands on is all that is Amer
lean about il. Ii contains, for the most part
foreign people and is given over to foreign
habits, manners, customs and forms of living.
Old school gentlemen are scarce here. The
old school gentleman is gentleman; but l
fear that, like the buffalo and the Indian, too
much progressive civilization has almost ex-
tinguished him. He gets up, no matter how
infirm and aged he may be, because his self
respect would not allow him to keep his seat
at the sacrifice of his poiteness The work
ing man, his kit of tools in hand and weary
from long day of hard work, rarely sits
while ladies stand. Never if he is native
American. The widows son in knickerbock-
ers, whose stockings show n mothers nightly
darning, courteously surrenders his seat to a
lady, though his slender limbs NAV be tired
from much running of errands or other work.
He has been bred in the school which respects
women and sympathizes with their weakness
and WEAKNESS of body.
The men who never get up are the lazy
lawyers, sleek brokers and bloated gour-
mands, who spend their lives largely in COM
Portable chairs, and are familiar with 1.-The
fat of the land" They are lost to all thought
for others. The great god Self possesses them
entirely. The man who, Mt banquets, toasts
1.-The ladies, God bless 'en," with fulsome
speech and knightly gesture, remains glued
to his seat Women NAV come and women
may go, but he sits still forever. The editor
remains prim in his corner, terribly shocked
Mt the rudeneSs of other men, and then goes
down to his Office and writes a ''slashing ar
ticle ON the decadence OF manners" The
dude, immaculate as to collar and cuffs, and
disagreeaby naculate to manners and
morals, gets up only when Il ''mashable- fair
one enters.
L saw Il male woman suffrage ranter keep
his seat in a horse car, with the firmneSs of a
government official, and the selfiShness attrib-
uted to swine, while two old women and
several young ones stood. One OF the Younger
ones had baby in her arms. too: yet the
week before had heard him make speech
in which all men who did not wear themselves
to skeletons in trying to make this world a
more habitahle place for women. were de
nounced in terms as strong as polite ears could
listen to. l particularly remembered
that he said this world wasn't fit for
lady TO live in" and / agreed
with him. Still stronger was nv in
dorsement of this sentiment after saw him
on a horse car. This is he in the picture. the
one in the high hat, but who has a nose that
tells tales The nose il real life is red The
black ana white limitations which my artist
was Obliged To conform to, can not do justice
to this noble creature EBBoN OLIVER.