Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-01-02
NEW FIRST READER.
Human Nature ~ Displayed on street
e Cars and street Corners. III ~ d. 554 ]. n q

NEW FIRST READER.
Human Nature % Displayed on street
Cars and street Corners. IL. @3 5s1
LESSON J. -"Shall we make a trip on
the street car and study human nat
urep" e. q Fir
Eyes. let us go. They run so swiftly
that 1t Is like flying through the air.
How exhilarating! What q moving pan
Drama OF human life is here represent
ed! All! but why do we stop2" 49,"
''For that woman a block and a half
away who Is waving both arms at the
driver. Now that she has stopped the
car she isn't in so much of q hurry.
She feels for her purse. rearranges her
cloak, draws on one of her gloves, and
detains twenty passengers for two min
utes." a.
''She must have very important bus
inessp"
''She has. Her neighbor got cloak
which she says cost $50, but this wom-
an thinks she saw one like it for $40.
She is on her way down town to make
sure. There-she is on-and we will
now fly again"
LESSON u.-"Street-car conductors
are great students of human nature,
are they notp"
'They are. They can pick out a
man who will take three-cent piece
| Tor a ten almost at a glanse."
'Are they often annoyodp"
Every often, but the company pays
EN- for it. It is very annoying when
conductor helps a woman and seven
children on and off to find that she is
only wash-woman and can never
leave him a legacy"
lis conductor expected to be gen.
tleman?"
"Certainly. He is supposed to lift
his hat to every lady. wish every pas
serger good-day, and to indulge in tall
linz collars, kid gloves and swallow
tailed coats.''
'Why does he have, to ring up fare
for each passenger?"
'To prevent his changing places
with the owners of the line. But for
this wise provision of nature he would
soon be seated at the cashiers desk,
and the cashier would be on the rear
platform of a car"
LESSON III. why does the pas.
senger put his hands in his pockets
and stretch his legs across the carp"
Because he passes for genius"
'But it looks loaferish."
lit might, in case of a poor man,
but this one is worth $4,000 and any
thing he does is credited to eccentrici,
ties of genius
HE seems half-drunk."
$50 he does. In the case of man
earning two dollars day he would
seem all drunk, and the conductor
would give him the collar, but money
and genius are big excuses, my boy. "
LESSON 1V.-"Why did the lady give
such a sudden start?"
because she realized the fact that
the conductor had been holding out his
hand for two long minutes for her
fare"
"But didn't she notice him collect
ing"
''Oh, no. It wouldn't be fashiona-
bic to notice any such thing. Her
mind has been far, far away, and now
that it has returned she feels in differ
ent places for her purse-rises up, sits
down three times, shakes out her
skirts and unbuttons her cloak, and
finally produces q car ticket from her
glover"
didn't she know it was there all
the timer"
''She did, but if she hadn't gone
through her performance the rest OF
us might not have noticed her new hat
| and sealskin."
LESSON Wis the man mad?"
He isl
| ''Why is he mad?'
because he says he whistled for the
car last evening and it didn't STOP"
didn't the d. iver hear him?"
| ''That's question. The man says
he couldn't have been over half mile
away, and the night was very still, and
he wants it understood that if it hap
pens again he will go to headquarters
with his complaint"
| ''But he got the next carp"
"No. he didn't, and that's what hurts
him. He was standing on the curb
stone, kicking the needless driver o.
the other car in imagination, and was
SO deeply interested that he let two
cars and q good-looking seamstres<
pass him without seeing them"
troit Free Press.
TRAIN MANAGEMENT.
| Lantern Signals, Taken from the Amori
! can "Stantlard Code"
A train while running must display
two green flags by day and two greer
lights by night, one on each side of thu
rear of the train.
| After sunset, or when Unsecured BY
| log or other cause, must display head
| 1;ob< IN 'front.' on1 two nod lirhts "