The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-10
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Car WINE Rohnw Aaowe.
Mrs Younvwife went down town the otheI
day to try 10 nnish up some Of her spring shop
ping. When she came home late in the after.
noon she was 90 tired that, AZ she herself said
30 her husband. she could just oryi which she
promptly did, to show that she told the truth
don't care. ~ she said. wipinR her ewes, Nv
had enough to make a solid silver saint, like che
one I saw In Paris. shed tears ! crawled M the
elevated stairs at Twenty-third street because
| thought I might get a sent in the l. train when
] could scarcely hnd standing room In . surface
car. Well when l got on the Harlem train
there wasn't a vacant seat. and there we're four
people standing In my car. made the nfth'
and the only womanl or all the people who
we're sitting down. only four were women, SO
you can see how many men had seats
Nothing under the sun can eter make me
believe that all those men put together wero as
tired as I was but. not one or them offered me a
seat l suppose they thought; Obi there's q
woman who's been shoppinGl' To hear men
talk Of shopping. you'd think It was a dream OF
rest and happiness to a woman Ninety
nine out of a hundred women, especially
those who ride In street cars. dread an
afternoons shopping worse than . days
hard work at homo. But they have to
do it. They have to buy their own
clothes, and the children's. and the things
for the household. and half the time something
for their husbands. and they have to be drag
E1nR around for hours, hunting. through things
they don't want trying to find the one thing
thev do want And when they've spent one AT
ternoon in this pleasant manner" said Mrs.
YounRwife, with fine sarcasm, they get on a
sitting at their desks all day. peer at them
over their papers and say 10 themselves. oh.
she can stsndi She's another of the shopping
Mrs. Youngwife had overcome her tendency
to tears by this time and was waxing eloquent:
my teeth and tried to be brave. But was so
tired. dear, that 4 seemed TO me couldn't do 1t
much longer. Then | thought ! was going to
faint. ! almost hoped would. and that it would
be very hard to restore me to consciousness. Then
to stand up. But ! braced up and hung on TO
my strap tighter than eyer, and told myself
third street another woman got on. She
was a stout healthy looking woman, but
ELDERLY I'D .Ia at any rat she so was srsy-haired. As
one Of the four women who had seats was
beginning 70 make preparations for getting
woman was up by the door. when the woman
who had the seat saw that I had my eye on IL
she looked at me anxlously.
I'm going to give my seat to the elderly
lady y she said. defsntly.
~ havn't any objections.' I said, which was
80 she went up to the elderly woman, who
looked good for q forty-mile walk, and offered
.Hs h.a was psrts g LA fsss 81 and strong: but.
10 kEag hlIs Auu IT 1Ouuk" HDIeA0
out her palms de- pairingly;
The one CLEAN of brightness in the whole
afternoon" she went on with a more cheerful
expression" was i've minutes / spent waiting
for my change in the cloak department of -.
In the first place l was sitting down then. That
was enough to make the five minutes memoir
able. And while l sat there two ioorwalkers
passed me.
Moore's gone home one of them said.
Why ? asked the other.
gave her permission. She is sick with .
oh Lord! y exclaimed the other. Now the
times come for that!'
What DO you mean 2 asked the first.
oh. they will sit on stoops. OF course they
take cold. and then you have to let them 20
home
Well. 1 hadn't got over smiling to myself
over that, when two small girls. who hang up
the cloaks after they are tried on. sat down near |
The chairs they took were close together,
and one of them, Immediately began to sit up
very straight and put on all sorts of airs
"'Golly! she said. oh, yes. she did ~ insisted
Mrs. Y~oungwife as her husband uttered a re-
"'Golly y she said. front seats at the op'ra!
In the dress circle. too, l tell you. this is fine!
Lemme take your op'ra glass. Get onto the
Jude In the box, and she pointed at the floor
across the room. Just then one of the |
began calling for a cash girl.
"'Oh my! said the girl in the 'dress circle |
turning her imaginary opera glass in that direc- !
ike them high notes o. horn p
Just then another saleswoman came along
and broke up the dress circle by setting the two
girls to WORK, but | laughed about II whenever |
bought OF 1t, even when | was standing up in |
hat car full of heartless men,"