Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-10-10

THE SUFFRAGE RANTER WHO NEVER JUDGED
l have noticed that the men here who do
calamity get up and give their seats to ladies
are apt 10 be either western or southern. The
native New Yorker regards himself Us too
great q creature altogether to put himself out
10 make way for mere women whom in all
stations he considers his interiors. He has
patterned his manners after foreign examples
mostly, and Of n very common order of eN-
| amples at that. No, New York is not Amer
lean. The soil it stands on is all that is Amer
lean about it. 1t 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 u gentleman; but
fear that, like the buffalo and the Indian, too
much progressive civilization has almost eX-
tinguiShed him. He gets up no matter how
iniirm and aged he may bc, because his self
respect would not ALLOW him to keep his seat
ut the sacrifice of his IoliteueSS. The work
mg man, his Kit of tools in hand AMI weary
from "A long day of hard work, rarely sits
while ladies stand. Meier if he is n native
American. The widows son in EniC6erbock.
prs, whose stockings show IA mothers nightly
darning, C~UurteOUSly Surreudcrs his seat to Il
lady, though his slender limbs may be tired
from much running Of errands or other work.
He has been bred in the school which respects
women and ~sympathi2cs 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 chains, and are familiar with "the
fat of the land" They are lost To all thought
for others. The great god Self POSSESSES them
entirely. The man who, at hauquets, toasts
the ladies', God bless en-" with fulSomo
speech and knightly gesture, remains glued
70 his seat. Women may come and wOmen
NAV go, but ne sits still forever. The editor
remains prim in his corner, terribly shocked
at the rudcuCSS of other men, and then goes
down to his Office and writes a "SlaShing an.
ticlo on the deCadenCe Of manners" The
dude, immaculate Is TO collar II cuffs, and
diSagreeably macul&te rs to manner and
morals, gets up only when a "maShablen fair
one enters.
Isaw a male woman suffrage ranter keep
his scat in u horse car, with the tirmneSS of u
government official, and the seliShneSS attrib-
utcd TO swine, while two old women and
several young OncsStOod. One of the younger
ones had Il baby in her arms, too; yet the
week before | had heard him make a speech
in which all men whOdid not wear themselves
to skeletons in trying to mako this world a
moro Eahitable place for womes- We're de-
nOunced III terms rs strong CspOhteca ears could
listen u. | particularly remembered
that he said "this world wasn't tit for
a lady to live in and | agreed
with him. Still stronger WIGS my i'll
dorsement Of this sentiment aftc, l saw him
on a horse ear. This is he in the picture, the
one in the high hat, but who has Il nose that
tells tales. The nose in real life Is rcd The
black AMI white Limitations which my artist
was obliged to conform to, can not do justics
to this noble creature. ElBON OLIVER