The Washington critic., 1889-01-08
SOMETHING or CITY LIFE.
An Incident In the Morning stroll of Two
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An Incident In the Morning stroll OF Two
Newcomers, Very New
a aewly-elected Member of the next Con-
gress, with his wife, wes taking In the sights
around the Capitol this morning, and were
standing on the hill at the south wing, looking
out over the beautiful view The clear,
bracing afr and balmy sunshine heightened
the enjoyment OF the scene, and Mr.. A. and
his wife felt that their home for the next two
years would be cast In pleasant places. indeed
The twitter OF the sun bird aud the cav of
the crow name the scene u veritable spring
picture, and the hearts of the new corners
went out in goodness to all mankind Soon
u deep sonorous voice came up TO them on
the morning air, froighted with that solemn,
uumstakable air OF praise so dear to all who
serve the master, and his wife waited in breath
less expectancy to see who the sweet singer
was. A rattle-trap Of wagon, driven by
an ancient negro came in sight around the
Incline and the negro's voice trombled aud
shook on the beautiful morning air, as he
trilled forth the ever loved
"What friend have In Jesus,'
and our good people from the Empire State
stood fascinated aud drank In the picture.
The Wagon was labeled "Butter and Eggs,n
and Mrs. A. in the fullness of her heart, pro-
posed to patronizc the poor darkey who had
such a love for the Lord, and Mr.. con-
sented.
They selected three huge rolls OF golden-col
ored butter, and on the assurance of the Cody
vender that 'it is jes wat dey uses at de
White House, boss they paid one dollar per
roll, and left the aged pilgrim with many
wishes for his health and success.
On arriving home MIR A.was recounting the
beautiful incident OF the morning. and several
of his friends asked to taste the butter.
MIR. y, who plays short-stop in the War 'De-
partment, took a generous lump In his mouth
and shot IL out with vigorous: "U-un-ggh
Applegreaseln ~ and wiped his tongue on the
tablecloth Major L.. who holds down soft
chair in the lobby Of the House, tasted IT and
yelled: "Who built the ArkY "Noah built
the Ark, and think he built that butter"
With doubt all over his face, Mr.. A..
gingerly took COB of the golden butter, and
In trying TO get rid Of 1t, shook his teeth loose
aud bulged his eye.bals out far enough to
hang his hat on.
When he reganed his voice he said. ''Well,
ding my buttons, here | have waded through
Westchester County and stood off Shaky
Davis, Waddy Donovan, Dicer Maloney and
all the kids In Gotham, and | come here to
this town to be done by a livercolored moke
for three dollars ~ and Y. chimed in: "Yes,
and TO the tune of What Friend Have in
Jesus 1t is very sad, very sad"
why an Anti-stand.Up League Should be
Formed by the Men.
Why don't the men form an Anti-Stand- Up
League? II all the men in Washington who
ride in street cars would become members of
an oath-bound organization, swear that under
no circumstances would they get up to give a
woman q seat In asstreet-car and stop further
ing the economic designs of the street.car COM
panies the result of the successful formation of
such league would be that when woman,
pretty or otherwise, got on n street-car in
which all the seats were occupied she would
look up one side and down the other aud see
that all the men had made signs OF tho A. s..
U. H., whatever 1t might be- resting the tip of
the right thumb on the right knee, with the
fingers closed for inatance, as we used to do
when VIC played, 'Simons says, thumbs
down. -
Then she would wave her hand to the con-
ductor and get off the car. When the next
car came along she would look to see if all the
seats were occupied. If they were she would
either walk or ride on another line Of street
cars. Then the bloodless corporations who
run the street cars would put Oh more cars,
and inside of a fortnight cars enough would
be run to give seats to all passengers. But
now nine women out of ten climb calmly into
a crowded car In full confidence that some man
will get up to give her seat. And as II
doesn't cost any more to run car In which q
dozen or more passengers are standing up
than 1t does to run an empty one these 'stand.
up" fares are clear profit to the company.
| II might be rather hard ON the women for a
week or two, until the car companies came to
terms, but in the end the formation of the
league would result in increased comfort tG
both the passengers and the conductors. II
might be we'll to suspend the rules Of the
league on rainy days because then it would
be rather too hard ON the women to force
them TO wait on street corners for an empty
car or walk a couple Of squares to another
line, but on all but such occasions the rules
should be inllexible Members might find il
difficult. TO festrain their Washington gal
lantry--the like of which in this respect eau
not be found anywhere else in the world-and
| sit still while pretty woman hung to q strap
and made eyes at him, but the consciousness
that he was suffering in good cause would
lend him strength, aud the lazy men would
find their membership all ample excuse fol-
not getting up.