The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-23

bosh. Then she abused him all the
distance of the block and really he
ought to have picked her up and drop
per her inadvertently into the pool of
water formed by the street flushing
operations at that time in progress,
instead OF gently and politely helping
her down.
I'm just tired out trying to keep
one woman from being smashed" re-
marked a conductor pathetically the
other day, IT'S hard enough work" he
went on ito stand on the edge of moth
ing all day and part of the night ring
ing up fares and trying to see in four
different directions, besides keeping
up the reputation of being a mind
reader and knowing where everybody
wants to get out without them saying
a word, but l didn't contract to hold
women in the car.
"She was bound to stand on the
footboard of a picnic car and all l
could do she wouldn't sit down. Every
time we struck a curve l expected
to see her land in the gutter and by
the time we got half way over the trip,
not making any stops, you know, l
was about as crazy as she was. Every
little while she'd give a yell and every
body expected she was tumbling Off
Tell you what, I was glad when we
stopped for good"
There is the woman who always
keeps the car waiting as the sails
majestically up. and there is the one
L.
arm. Now, a woman and an umbrella
are a bad combination, when the lat
ter is under the arni of the former.
especially If you happen to be Chamber
ing up behind her and get vicious
jab in the eye.
There, too, is the one who always
drops things on the car floor or leaves
them on the seat and keeps a relay Of
men, including the conductor and
sometimes the motorman, chasing her
to restore the lost belongings. The
only ameliorating phase of this weak
ness in femanity is that men generally
like to do this for a gracious woman,
and the one who scatters her posses
sions as she moves is apt TO be gracious
from habit. She has learned a little
lesson embodied in this bit of advice:
Never protest when men want to dc
things for you-from bringing a glass
of water to stopping an express train.
They won't offer their assistance IL it
doesn't please them TO do so. They
can be very oblivious to a womans
comfort IL they don't happen to want
to do otherwise. If they propose TO
render little services don't object
don't refuse, but Immediately ac-
quiesce. They like it.
But what / started out to tell was
the queerness of women on street cars
Perhaps you thought I'd divulged
enough, but I've kept the worst back
to the very last. They have one habit
that is really most eXasperating and
that is when in a crowded car and one
person alights, the other women in
their vanity will Immediately move and
spread their skirts over the vacant
place, thus keeping out the tired men
hanging on the footboard. The other
evening a man gave up his seat to a
girl. Soon another girl in, the same seat
left the car and Immediately the first
one moved along and settled herself
in the place vacated, where the mar
who had risen was about to seat him
self. He looked fixedly at the little
bundle of selfishness and calculated
softly: well, I'll be -" but the
girl nor anybody else did not quite
catch the prophetic remarks which he
uttered. Whatever II may have been
he was reasonably justified. says
Saucy Bess.