The Coconino weekly sun., 1892-08-18
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HE WAS POLITE.
Tho Henpeeked Little Man Was Not Ac-
 customed to Artificial Women.

Tho Henpecked Little Man Was Not Ac-
 customed to Artificial Women.
 She was sumner, and as she swung into the well filled bridge car every man in the car felt in duty bound to keep his seat in order to have better view of her queenly figure and her exceeding ly attractive face.
 She moved on through the car until she reached the center, then she paused and glided gracefully into the space oc- cupied by the sliding doors in the side, and leaning her splendid self languidly against the glass gazed in dreamy, far away fashion at the grayish blue river, with its ever changing panorama of moving vessels, with their pufiing smoke stacks and Tapping sails.
 The car had begun to travel on its way to New York, when small man, who looked as though he might have been very much married man and a much moro henpecked husband, and who occupied the end seat near where tho divinity was leaning against the door so gracefully, noticed the interested glances of the other male passengers, and looking up quickly from his paper became suddenly aware that very pretty woman was, as 1t were, on exhi- bition, and also that he was, to use a slang expression, mot in it," as he had to almost twist his neck out of joint in order to catch even fieeting glimpse of her.
 Accordingly tho small, henpecked looking man determined to be polite, in order to obtain a position where he could enjoy an uninterrupted view of the vision of female loveliness; so he stood up, and reaching over, touched tho statuesque blond gently on the left arm.
 She never moved; it would seem that the panorama on the river had so chained her attention that the mere offer of a seat was a matter so trivial that it did not rouse her.
 The little man looked confused, but thinking he had probably touched her arm too lightly, he laid his hand more heavily upon the fair ones wrist, in or der to call her attention to the fact that she could sit, instead of standing, for the three minutes of time which would elapse before the car reached the New York side, as the train had by this time travelled almost half the distance.
 But the fair maid kept her eyes fixed firmly upon ferryboat which was vending its old fashioned, weary way across tho river, and paid no more at tention to the little mother-in-lawed looking man than if he had been at the north pole.
 The undersized individual, however, was not to Do ignored; he had made up his mind to give up his seat, after due deliberation, and no 6-foot blond, how ever beautiful, could freeze him out of his polite purpose. His face was pie ture of determination of tho now or never sort as ho reached over once more and took firm grip on the young wom- ans forearm at point about midway between the wrist and the elbow
 As he did so an ashy pallor overspread his face, which was quickly followed by beetlike redness, and the little man, dropping the arm, made his way to the door, followed by the smiles of the rest of the passengers, who enjoyed his dis comfiture immensely.
 The pretty girl remained standing until the door was opened on the New York side, when she walked out with the rest of tho passengers. As she moved along the platform she swung her left arm in careless way, and, as the knowing passengers heard the joints in the artificial member squeak, they realized why the little man had failed to make any impression upon its other wise stunning owner.-Brooklyn Eagle.