Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-12-27
A WOMAN AND A MAN.
INCIDENT THAT OCCURRED ON
A STREET CAR.
She Lectured Him Because He Did
Not Rise ami Give Her His Seat
Might Have Felt Ashamed, hut
Didn't Seem To.

She was of an intermediate age
which .heans about 30 and some odd
very sharp-featured and distinctly pet
ulant looking. She looked as if she
might bestow the bulk of her affection
upon a couple of aged cats and par
rots.
She boarded an uptown 14th street
car at 18th street and New York ave-
nue. the other afternoon. There wasn't
vacant seat in sight. They were all,
except one, occupied by women, who,
strangely enough, were actually press
ed quite close together, contrary to the
usual feminine scheme of spreading out
skirts and bundles so as to take up
sufficient room for two or three sit
ters. The one man seated in the car
was a sturdy, smooth-faced individual,
dressed in black. His seat was near
the door.
The sharp-featured woman gazed fix
edly at him as she reached for a strap.
However, he appeared to be interested
in the view through the opposite win
dow, and he didn't notice her fixed
stare.
HUH" said the woman with the
sharp features, as the car started
ahead. And as she said it she gazed
at the man in black as if he belonged
to hitherto uncatalogued species Of
fuzzy caterpillar.
However, the sturdy man in black
didn't see her at all, nor did he appear
to hear her. He pulled an evening pa
per from his coat pocket, spread it out
and began to read.
1.-THE manners of some folksv' ejacu-
lated the sharp-featured woman, glar-
ing square at the man in black; who,
however, was obviously quite enwrap-
ped with the news Of the day.
Huh! Big lummoxes that sprawl
around in seats and let ladies stand
| up! muttered the woman who didn't
belle her petulant looks.
The solitary male passenger smiled at
a joke that caught his eye at the bot
tom of the newspaper page, and as
suredly did not see her.
''It's mighty little raisin' some people
we had!' went on the sharp-featured
woman, as if addressing all hands in
the car-and most of the women in the
car were snickering by this time. 81
never seen the like, so 1 didn't!'
The man in black turned over to the
Schley case in his newspaper and
yawned slightly.
Much some ill-mannered creatures
care, so long as they can spraddle their
lazy, good-f'r-nothin' bones around in
comfort" went on the sharp-featured
woman as the car rounded Thomas cir
Gle.
'Some folks are so deef and dumb
that they can't never take a hint" she
continued, after a pause.
The man in black yawned cavernous-
ly over the court of inquiry testimony,
as well he might, yet he didn't seem
to be in anywise aware of the contin-
gency of the petulant woman.
At length, as the car was passing r
street she couldn't stand his callous in
difference any longer. She leaned over
the man in black, and as she did so he
looked at her for the first time, with
a surprised expression.
did you ever see a man give his seat
to a lady where you came from, wher-
ever that is?" she asked the sturdy
looking man in black.
The man reddened and rose from his
seat with great difficulty, supporting
himself heavily on a cane.
''It was always my custom, madam,
to surrender my seat in cars for ladies
until l met with an accident which
has rendered me permanently infirm,' -
he said, signaling to the conductor to
stop the car The sharp-faced woman
pumped herself into his seat and then
the man in black walked painfully to
the rear platform. One Of his legs
was of cork The other women, per-
ceiving this, looked sympathetically
toward him as he was helped off the
car by the conductor and then scowIed
at the sharp-faced woman. But she
didn't appear to be bothered, says the
Washington Star, and returned scowl
for scowl.
| SEVEN DAVIS FIJI OF NANHEP