The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-22

he lnoI ed over TO where the gira stood ami
lifted mis- hat
10 you want cab?" he asked with an
Indifference which indicated tnas he dim :
notice she wal young and pretty Sba
shrusSe1 her shoulders and nodded ~
ward the crowd.
Il m afraid il doesn't make any differ
ence whether l Go or not" she said VIM
Il friendly a'ni e. There doesn't seem ap,,
Use in thinking about it,
lie loohed at the men.
''They do seem anxious" he admitted
I'm going to take one myself; and
thought perhaps, as you were alone. Won
might like me to get one for you"
The girl laughed and said:
81 should be much obliged; but guess u
will be a case of street cars"
The languid youth raised his hat again
and crossed the deck with the same old
stroll. He mixed himself I'D with tbA
horses and carriages In the middle of tba
boat. Then he appeared Just behind tba
chain that keeps the horses back from tba
large middle gate. He jumped this chain
with tranquil ease and stood talking with
the boat hand at the gate. The bachelor
girl watched him with interest He look.
ed as though he had never In his life hur.
ried, and never would. The boat struck
the dock, the gates began to open. Then
a certain young man displayed unexpectes
qualities. He shot through the crack of tba
middle gate as though flung from a fvins
wedge, a scrambhng crowd of men tackled
him; but he went through them and sprint.
ed down the dock in a way that would
have won him laurels if he had been hug.
ging football instead Of dress-suit case
He disappeared; and the bachelor elrl
rubbed her eyes.
When she reached the street a few min.
utes later she found a mob of exasperatei
elderly gentlemen swearing at the New
York cab system. Two lonely cabs stool
at the curb, and in charge of them was an
unruff1ed, Emphatic youth, in elegant at
tire and with nothing about him TO sug
gest energy. He stepped forward as the
girl appeared.
These are our cabs" he said, quietly
she Deamed upon him ardently; but even
that didn't ruffle his calm. He accented
her thanks politely and closed the cab
door
And that was the end of it," said the
girl at the breakfast table. 1T couldnt
lall upon his neck and tell him that
adored him, and I couldn't give him
quarter, so just had to say thank vou
and let him go. The thanks seen. ed hone
lessly inadequate. He was splendL. and
wasn't 1t nice of him to notice me and
think of helping me? Why don't mora
men DO that sort of thing?" she said
scornfully looking at the young doctor
who sat across the table and was sup
posed to value her good opinion.
He put down his coffee cup and &C.
cepted the challenge.
Because nine women out of ten wouldn't
accept the courtesy in the right spirit"
he said. "A good many men would co
pollte things they don't do if the chances
were not so largely in favor of their be-
ing snubbed for this pains"
The bachelor girl didn't believe him.
It's fact all the same,' he insisted
stubbornly. Some women think that il
man will speak to them without being
introduced he is capable of any double
dyed vlllainy, and that they must show
MN they are not to be triflel with They
dont seem able to tell a gentleman from
cad; so they go on the supposition that
every man is a cad"
1 don't see why a woman would snub
a man for offering to help her even if sha
uluh care to accept help" said the girl
Well, she WILL" the doctor replied with
conviction. Now, for example, last sum
Iner was on train going to Asbury
Fark and nice looking young woman
got cinder in her eye She had a terri
Die time with it, and two or three women
tried 10 help her l watched the perform
ance until saw they were getting the eye
INTO bad shape, and then 1 stepped up and
said L thought I could remove the cinder.
Grateful? Well, the mercury dropped fifty
degrees, and 1 was frozen so stiff I could
hardly get back TO my seat L registered
VOW then that the next time 1 tried to
help a strange woman 1t would be because
she asked me for help"
The other TWO men at the table nodded
sympathetically.
"Of course, the way a man did the
thing would make a good deal of differ
ence,' said the girl bachelor, maciousy'
Ahen she relented. You know there ara
some cads, and a woman does so dread
dlsagreeabie experience that she Is over
careful"
Il suppose that's it," assented the doc
tor, but they've themselves 10 thank ior
the mems lack of courtesy. fellow
doesn't dare put on any chivalric grace
When he does a nice thing for a strange
woman. If he does the thing at all, it's in
a hang-dog schamefaced sort of a way
Even when he gives up his seat in car,
ne tries to make the act as Indifferent anu
ungracfous as possible, and to impress tho
woman with the fact that he doesn't care
a hang about her personal comfort anu
gratitude, but that he is getting up from
a sense of duty. l tell you, women must
nave peen different in the days Wheh '"'
dared to air old school Virginia gallantE'
The girl looked thoughtful. but you
see, she remarked as she left the idpt,
when you go back to first causes ls
the mems fault after all. If women haau'
learned by sad experience that mems coW.
tesy wasn't to be depended on tHey
wouldn't be so suspicious nowadays. lo1
are paying the penalty for belonging TO
Sex that has established a bad record doc
tor"
But she knew he had some reason on MS
side.
Mark Twain has determined to so J."
for writing for the stage, but it is not Ms