The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-06-27
HOW SHE sEouRep A SEAT.
Tho Girl OF Nerve Does Not stand In
street Car.

Tho Girl of Nerve Does Not Stand In y
street Car.
The girl of nerve has found a way
which, she says, is most efficacious for
securing n seat in n horse car IL was
in Broadway car, and the men seated
along each side of it were evidently
gentlemen, for they were we'll dressed.
The car was full. There was not seat
to spare when, at the next crossing,
young woman entered. She was slim
girl, rather pale, but, like her own
teeth, small and white yet with plenty
of nerve.
As she boarded the car and came in,
she glanced up and down the two rows
of men. No one noticed her. All the
faces wore a stolid. preoccupied look,
and those of the men who had papers
or note books handy began to study
them. Not n man budged from his
place. And now what do you think
that girl did? Walking slowly along
the car, she looked carefully at the
faces of the men until she selected her
victim. Taking up her stand in front
of him, she grasped the strap by hitch
ing her umbrella handle in it, and then,
tently at the mans feet.
He stood the scrutiny for a moment,
then he looked to see if there was any
thing unusual about his boots; but no,
they were nicely blaclSed and in as good
trim as new shine" could make
them. lie looked up again at the girl.
She was still staring hard at his feet.
There must be something wrong. I'M
easily he hitched about little in the
seat, crossed one leg over another and
tried to look sideways out of the win
dow. But the scheme wouldn't work,
for there in front of him stood that
small bit of girl staring with two
wide-open eyes directly down at that
pair of boots. Again he moved, this
time crossing his legs and selecting "a
new position, where he hoped that his
feet would appear less prominent and
conspicuous. But no, there they were,
looming up as aggressive as ever, and
there in front stood the mite of girl
absorbed in studying them. The man
had big feet, and the girl knew this
when she selected him, and being a
woman, she had judged where to hit him
in just the place that would strike his
sensibilities.
1t was becoming too much for him.
He could not stand it much longer. He
must move his seat or get out upon the
platform. This was really becoming
too awful when the size of his feet could
attract attention from woman in a
street car. More and more uneasily he
hitched about, more and more intently
the girl stared, and ere two blocks had
been traversed he got up, made lurch
towards the door ard got out upon the
platform, where it was two blocks more
before he recovered his equanimity and
get over feeling that all the world was
wondering at the size of h is extremities]
The little cheat of a girl meanwhile,
with the sweetest possible smile and
half-whispered ''Thanlz you,' sank
blissfully and gracefully into the seat
and enjoyed her ride home. In telling
about it afterwards she said she had
worked her little game at least three
times daily for the past month, and had
always succeeded. How the man liked
it or what he thought of the unscrupu-
lous nature of the proceeding, as it re-
vealed itself to him in his calmer mo-
ments, history tells not.-N. Y. World.