The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-28
PHILOSOPHY APPLIED.
A Traveller Gives Weighty Reasons for Hi
Partially for End Seats.

Partially for End Seats.
With many others / have often OBJ
served that my interesting friend. Mr..
Cynicus Candidicus. when travelling
on the al" invariably. if possible.
takes possession of either one of the
last seats in the rear oar, or one O.
the front seats in the first car. The
other day asked him to give me mis-
reasons for his marked Partially for
these places. One OF the interesting
things about Candidicus is that he
always has reasons for everything he
does, and is as brutality frank about
disclosing and discussing his own mo-
tives as he is in analyzing those of
other men, says a writer in the New
York Herald.
If you were philosopher" began
Candidicus. in answer to my question,
"you would have discovered that con-
science is responsible for most of the
unhappiness endured in this world.
No man is happy whose conscience is
down on him. The man who could
succeed in completely extinguishing
his conscience would be perfectly
happy. But an inscrutable Provi-
dence has rendered that impossible.
for most of us, at least. Therefore
We have got to get along with our
cOnsciences as best we can. Your
true philosopher. therefore, strives
to give his conscience as few Oppor-
tunities to jump on him as a proper
regard for his own comfort will per-
init. This is the reason why, when !
ride on an u train l always 60 10
the front of the front car or the rear
of the rear car"
81 fail to see the connection"
That is because you haven't
reached the dignity of being a rea-
soning human being. will do my
best to supply the deficiency in your
mental makeup. It must have been
repeatedly forced upon your atten-
ton, through personal experience,
that when man occupies a seat in an
al" car while a woman is standing
up in front of him, his conscience
takes mean advantage OF toe oppor-
tunity and begins to prod him and
make him feel ill at ease. Thus
many a mans enjoyment of a news
paper has been spoiled. But If he
yields to the onslaughts of conscience
and relinquishes his seat to some
woman he has to endure all the phys
ical discomforts incidental to stand
ing up in q crowded car.
when take q seat in the extreme
front or rear of a train I avoid both
horns of the dilemma. You viii never
see a woman standing up in front of
those seats. They don't get chance.
As the train fills up men who have
failed to get seats rush to either ex-
tremity of the train to secure the ad-
vantage of a closed door to lean
against. Being more agile than the
women they can beat them in the race
With no women standing up or around
me my conscience has NO excuse for
making me feel uncomfortxbl 1t is
compelled to let up on me. Then
when l look around the car / behold
lots of men occupying seats with wo-
men standing up in front of them and
all around them. and that enables me
to indulge in complaisant reflections
concerning the decay Of chivalry and
the debasing influences of selfishness.
That affords me a gratifying sense Of
my own superiority. So you see it is
worth something to be a philosopher
and know how to apply your knowl-
edge"