The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-19
LAUGH MAY CONTAIN A LESSON.
suggested Improvement for Leaving
Street Cars offered Women.

From the Chicago Chronicle
Very ludicrous, certainly, but yet it
Is not quite the proper thing to laugh
so loudly that she can hear you !"
IL was strong faced old man who
gave expression to the above while
standing on The corner of State and
Madison streets one evening last week
lie referred to the great discontinue
winch oNercame pretty little woman
who, like most of her sex, managed to
get of street car the wrong way. In
allghtlns she turned her back on the
stiil moving train. and as a result she
was left spraWling in the damp street
the observed of hundreds of eyes. Her
light colored dress was irretrievably
ruined and her lying ribbons stamped
and tluttefed in the little puddles made
by the melting snow.
And her facet 1t was clothed in as
crimson color as a fnll-blown holly
hook, Four or five men leaped to her
assistance and In a iiffy had the little
woman upon her feet. But she did not
thank them Not a word She lust
Kept her eyes on the ground and, with
a wild and startled bound, leaped for
the sidewalk, and in a moment disap-
peafed within the canacious doors of
one OF the hazaafs near by. Then those
big, bearded pirates who. n moment
before, We're all grace and tenderness
in their solicitude began to roar
Not exactly right to laugh con-
tinued the old man who had witnessed
every phase of the above incident.
but 1t can hardly be helped under the
circumstances. If women will persist
in getting off the cars contrary to the
manner in which they should, why.
they must expect to take tumble
But even with one mistake. If they
would only be careful in the future il
certainly does seem to me that they
at.-f,N Il ~
baltic feats.''
Well sir put in one of the men
who had assisted the little woman to
her feet, the only reason / can figure
out their persistence in jumping off
ears in reverse is because they see
newsbays and street ear employees do
it. | have seen one of these bows drop
off car going ut full speed .alight on
enc foot and retain to perfection his
equilibrium. How he manages TO do
II is past my comprehension. The mo-
mentum is such that Ii would topple
me over like the proverbial load of ap-
pie sauce"
But there are women who alight
with as much ease and as gracefully as
the mer." said another These are the
3ounges Women-those Of the athletic
or new woman type They never ask
the cor duetor to stop his ear. either
coming or going. but if you watch EN-
you'n see that they jump man-fashion
In my opinion I do not consider nv
self nj all ungallant. These awkward
women should be laughed at It may
teach them better sense for the next
jump, Let them wait until the cars
slow un''
That's what they ought II do" in
terposed the old man as he turned 10
leave. and If they don't do it. they
ought 10 tumble about the streets It's
not the conductors fault though
don't approve Of his and the gripmans
loud outlaws as they pull away from
the fioundering heap Of ribbons and
lingerie.
Ought TO have charts posted in the
cars giving an illustration Of the right
way IL jump added another as with
a parting roar the hara-hearted fellows
drfted away To their various objective
points.