Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-04-23
BOORlsHNEsS ON THE RAIL

Passengers by Men Otherwise Decent.
What is it that makes decent man
turn bOCr as soon as he enters a rail-
road car: If there were 30 double seats
in a car and 30 men entered it each
would sit by himself. Let him, if he
chooses. But let the 31st man come in
and ask els this seat engaged?" and
the chances are that every answer he
gets will be Eyes,
The other day Hartford man bound
for Boston asked six men who were
sitting alone if the seats beside them
We're taken. Each answered eyes"
and yet five of the six rode clear
through alone. Indeed, this habit has
gone so far that, if passenger moves
along to make room for you, you look
him over pretty carefully before you'll
trust yourself with him, for fear he is
a pickpocket. His unnatural demon
stration Of hospitality invites sus-
picion.s~7
And this disposition of man to sit
alone seems to be a matter of sex.
Women do not behave that way-at
least not in steamcars. In trolleys
IL women may start on one side of the
car, but, after three, or even four, have
gone, there's no more room, not even
for another woman, than there was
before. The remaining eight somehow
spread out their skirts so as to look
more crowded than before. But in the
steamcar the average woman, especial
ly if she has with her a big bundle,
baby, or a restless child, will take
half-seat beside man, even if there's a
whole seat vacant near by.
There are some men to whom this
fate comes whenever they travel. It
may be due to Christian gentleness
thatbeams in their eyes, but it may also
be due to the cowardice that they can't
conceal. At all events, they have the
company, and, generally, before long,
the bundle or the child is in their laps
and they submit. One reason is that
they have to. It is expected of them.
Maybe the cold treatment that one
man gives another in the cars is his
method of getting even for the way
that women impose upon him. That
is plausible explanation and it's the
only one that appears. Nor does this
do away with the charge of boorish-
ness. That can't be done away with,
for it's there.-Hartford Courant.
Eyes and Cold Water.
The aquatic urore has become so gen
eral that for the simple reason that cold
water is pure, natural product it is
claimed to be a universal and beneficial
application. Arsenic is pure, natural
and simple product; so is prussic acid,
as obtained from peach kernel. A
single drop of tobacco oil will kill cat
or dog in five minutes. Many persons
are daily running their eyes by opening
them in cold water in the. morning.
Cold water will harden and tougher the
hands, and much more will it do to the
manifold more delicate covering Of the
eye; or the eye will, in self-defense, be-
come scaly in the manner of fish, that
is, the coats of the eye will thicken. con-
shutting a series of cataract, which
must impair the sight. That water,
cold and harsh as it is, should be applied
to the eye for curative purposes inplace
of that soft, warm, lubricating fluid
which nature manufactures just for
such purposes, indicates great mental
obliquity. Water, when applied to the
eyes, should be lukewarm, and even
then it should be applied by closing and
Tapping it against the lid with the
hand. This cools the, eye more rapidly
than cold water does, and without the
shock, while its soothing effect is de-
lightful, washing out the yellow and
other matter that may have accumu--
lated over night in half the time re-
quired by cold water.-N. =. Ledger.