St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-10

SsSSV appears to enter
tain an opinion of
- her somewhat at
variance with poetry and gallantry.
The question has often come up, lis
woman, i'll her new and active relations
in the community, destroying the old
fashioned chivalry and consideration
with which the other sex treated her?"
1t is not within the scope of this article
to answer or even argue this question.
The newspaper method is rather
facts. 1t cannot always educe theories
and spend time with broad conclusions.
The attempt here is to gather some facts
concerning the opinion of practical men
who come in daily contact with women.
''Do you," asked of an intelligent
car conductor, Find women passengers
more considerable than men?n
swell, SIR" he answered, ''as to that,
Unjust tell you that I'd rather carry ten
loads of men than one load of women.
guess every man on this route will tell
you pretty much the same-he braces
up for the afternoon trips, when the
women are coming back from their
shOppin'. You see, the women never
seem to know whether they want to
stop the car or not. They don't have
any change when they get on, and they
never stop for crowd. 1t isn't once in
six months that man hands me $40
bill to take 5 cents out of it. But | never
had an afternoon trip that woman
didn't do it, and if L can't make the
change without robbing myself, she
says: We'll, | should think the COM
pany ought to have some consideration
for passengers Well, sir, Oh rainy
day you can see them at their best. A
4, Il
brella,
RUNNIN' A BLACK PUDDLE,
and she goes through the crowd with it,
generally plantin' it on somebody's
skirts. If there's any men in the car
they catch it. Why, sir, if you want to
see 'em Saturday afternoons, a good
time is when they're coming from Wash
ingtOn market with their weeks vic
tuals. The mans kinder ashamed to
get into the car with ham and two
codfishes and basket of onions. He
seems to have an idea that he ought to
stay outside with the truck. But, Lord
bless you, she won't have it. She just
pushes in. Slaps her ham on the seat,
scowls at everybody as much as to say:
Il don't want any O. your sour looks
neither
'Why, sir, you never can git a
woman, if she's alone, to wait till the
passengers get off. She always jumps
onto the step and SqueeZeS past the
other woman who wants to get off. I'M
less she's got man with her to hold
her back. It's as much as conductors
good nature is worth to get along with
a car full. If the fat one says: Con-
ductor, open this window, please, the
lean one says: Conductor, shut this
window ,,In thQu 6rnn q
we have to take the bottom of the car
up to find it, and you'd be surprised to
know how much more woman drops
than man. Delicate? Yes, | S'pose a
woman is more delicaGe than a man.
Anyway, Pve always heard so; but |
never saw man put his money in his
mouth. You see, a mans got kind of
feelin' that money can't be very clean.
You don't ever know what kind of a
pocket or fist it's been in last. But
a woman, when she's divin' into her
purse for change, Slaps the bill or the
50-cent piece in her mouth while she's
rumagin' for the pennies. l never see
her do it without thinkin' it amt deli
cate.
AN INCONSIDERATE MOB.
81 went the other day with my wife"
said an exemplary husband to me, ito
one of our biggest baZaars on the corner
of two avenues. 1t was thrOnged with
pushing women. l Saw but three other
men in the place. | never got into
such an inconsiderate mob in my life.
They seemed to have no sort of patience
or moderation. They thrust each other
aside, choked up the passages, stared at
each other impudentiy, made audible
remarks about each others clothes and
appearance, put the saleSwoman to meal
culable trouble, and for the most part
made trivial purchases. My wife came
away cross and somewhat diSarranged.
She said it was always so and she
would not go there again. l dare say
every one of them made the same re-
mark, and all went the next day. / am
told that at one of these stores two pO-
licemen were employed to mildly over
awe the women, but it hurt the custom
and they were abolished. From which
infer that the women did not want
their conduct interfered with"
A matinee is VIGOROUSLY the place to
see the enfranchiSed woman. Most of
popular places of amusement double the
ticket takers Oh these occasions. Why
it is that women unaccOmpanied by men
are ruder to each other than when men
are present, has not been satisfactorily
explained. But that they are is the
testimony of the women themselves.
Last winter the opera matinees at the
Metropolitan were unique Scrimma geS
for the few men who attended. The
women pushed and scrambled at the
doors. They forgot their tickets and