The herald., 1895-09-10
of the matron had only bored

condolences of the matron had only bored
them.
Then there Is the aggressive female
type, who, on entering the car, transnxes
some lu;kless man with q stony gaze
until he gives her bis seat, and who
wrangles with the conductor over the
change, asserting that he has given her a
nickel too little, and who deposits her
umbrella with resounding whack on
the toes Of the old gentleman beside her
and requests the small girl on the left to
move up SO tnat she can place her pack
ages on the seat, where she leaves them
for the rest of the trip, regardless of the
fat that two women are standing. When
she leaves the car she scolds the conduc-
tor for not stopping exactly on the cros,-
ing, and asks for his mum Der that she
may rerort his insolenCe at headquarters.
When she has finally disappeared from
view the conductor and all the passengers
breathe sign of relief.
The girl who has a young man with her
is a type always hailed with delight by
the frequcnteIs of street cars. They are
so oblivious of everyone in the world ex-
cent their own two selves; he takes such
evident delight IN paying her fare, and
she regards HIM with such admiration
when he pulls her cape closer around her
shoulders and tells her she must take
care of herself now-tender emphasis on
the now-and not get cold. Then when
incapable of sacrificing himself to the
extent Of giving up his seat by the be-
loved object he is most willing to make
room by sitting little closer, and
though he makes many apologies Tor
crowding her, he continues to bring his
arm IN close proximity to her shouiosr,
and then she glances shyly at him and
he returns the glance with ardor and
they foa. away into heaven of their
i own. only to come down when the con-
ductor rudely awakens than by calling
out far as We 60, and they hnd them
selves miles beyond their Destination.
Who that travels by street cars has not
met the middle-aged party who tells the
conductor at Thirty ninth street that she
wants to get off at Madison street, and
makes his life weary burden to him for
the rest of the trip by inquiring at every
block, "Is, this Madison street?"
There is the dear old lady who is going
to spend the day with her daughter, and
who cannot understand why the Cottage
Grove cable cannot deposit her at Indiana
avenue and Forty-third street. She knows
that when she went there the last time
she was put by her son on Cottal 9
Grove cable car and it left ier just at the
door of her daughters house, and she
didn't have to transfer once. She hates
transferring. And it takes the con-
ductor good fifteen minutes to explain
matters to her.
But perhaps the most marked of all the
street car woman's peculiaiities is her
talent for filing three seats at once; in
this particular the present style Of wo-
mans dress IS of great assistance to her.
The fashionable sleeves make woman's s
breadth across the shoulders something
III the neighborhood of four feet and her
draperies can be so adjusted and spread
out so as to occupy a corresponding
amount of space. Woe to the man who
attempts to disturb her. or to the con-
ductcr who suggests that she should
move up little She sits serene IN
the consciousness of uncrushed sleeves,
and utterly careless of the fate that other
women are minus seat.