San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-15
An Answer TO Doris.
.eans Times-Democrat.

| new orleans 1lmeS-DemOcTat.
have read two screeds from SOM
fair correspondent of yours who II
discoursing ON men and their manners
and bewailing the decay Of both
Please permit me to relate an actual
occurrence after the style of your
correspondent, Doris" and let infer.
ence be drawn from it as to whether
mems manners or women's man.
ners in public places are most
amenabIe to criticism. / am
NOT a youthful dude, but q staid
man, of forty-five, with no favors to
ask of man or woman to which my
purse cannot respond. 1 am, and for
wears have been, a looker-on upon the
matters Doris" is writing to you
about. The absence of comment, so
far, from men on the subject, seems to
encourage her In the pertness she
shows In her letters to your paper.
But to my incident-and it Is typical
in it's character.
took corner seat in q street car 3
few days since, at 4:30 p. m. 1 had
stood, quite tired, waiting some ten
minutes, partly to finish my cigar
and partly to secure my favorite cor.
ner seat as stated. I achieved both
results. AS the car was about to
start, a bevy Of ladies approached.
There was ample room in the Car for
all of them. One fair lady stood
squarely before me, and by her eyes
challenged q seat. I showed my
neigb or one way and withdrew more
closely into my corner, and so she
was seated. After some little DELHI
Grafton she opened her pocketbook
and handed me q two.dollar bill.
might with perfect propriety have
asked the meaning OF the tender, for
she vouchsafed no word. She only
sweetly sank back in her seat with q
sort of satisfied air, as born of q duty
discharged. Having seen such per-
formances before, left my favOrlte
corner, proceeded to the driver, pro-
cured change, and returned. The
lady declined accepting the money
from my fingers, in that she
simply opened her purse, closed it
upon the change I dropped into it,
and turned her head another way
without word Of acknowledgment.
Meantime my seat was occupied by q
fellow who had entered the car while
I was getting change for this lady,
and I had, in Consequence, a "standee"
for some ten or twelve squares.
Why don't women provide them
selves with change before they get
into street car? And having a nickel,
why can't they, before sitting down,
20 and deposit that nickel in the
fare box? Why can't they take car
with vacant seats, even at the ex.
pense of a five minutes wait, rather
than turn up tired man who don't
appr, ciate the privilege of standing?
And if, under stress of circumstances,
q hurried woman must get into q
crowded Car, and the tired man
surrenders his seat to her, why can't
she be woman enough to say boldly
and aloud, "Thank you, sir?" have
no patience, Mr.. Editor, with the
silly mandy. psmby sentiments ex-
pressed by your correspondent,
"Doris"
1t is the high mission of women to
inspire men. 1t has always been the
reward of true men to merit woman's
smile and approval. But when that
woman torgets everything womanly
except the skirts which proclaim her
sex, she will inevitably find by rude
experience that 1t Is the woman, and
not the petticoats, which commands a
mans respect.