West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-07-24
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hut After Severely iectarlsg Mrs
isowser Ne Makes VERY bad Break.

street and being struck by a carriage.
Forty nine out Of every fifty &C
cidents occur through people losing
their heads at critical moment.
You have been very lucky thus far
in escaping accidents, but feel it
my duty, nevertheless, to advise
with you. 1t is through no fault of
your own that you haven't been
smashed up dozen times over"
"Why should be smashed up1"
asked Mrs. Bowser, as she looked
up from her book.
Because you are woman and
because a woman loses her nerve the
instant she is menaced by danger.
1t wouldn't have surprised me any
day in the last ten years to have
heard that you were run over on the
street. You are just careless enough
to walk in front of a trolley car"
Glow about your being careless
enough to walk in front of butcher
cart1" she asked.
81 never did it. The cart turned
corner on me-"
"But you stepped off car and
was hit by peddler's wagon"
"Never! / was crowded off car,
but the accident was no fault of
NINE"
"Didn't you run for car to be
knocked down by bicyclef"
"Neverl l was sauntering toward
car when great big loafer on
bike wabbled around and struck me.
Never have had an accident
through my own fault, while my
GOODNESS and calmness have prevent
ed hundreds through the fault of
others. If l went laundering up
and down as you do, trusting to
bullhead luck, I'D be killed inside
of week. When you take car,
do you ever think that runaway
team may jump over the front
dashboard"
~ don't think I ever do" she
admitted.
"Just like a woman, and yet such
thing is quite likely to happen and
to cause the death of six or eight
people in the front end of the car.
Never sit in the front end Of car
never. Suppose you were walking
along and the cry Of Mad dogr
was raised, what would you dor"
III should probably look around
for the dog"
mot doubt of it, and thereby
fall victim to the brute. Should
you ever hear that cry you must
dash for the nearest doorway at once.
Bear this in mind whenever you are
out, SO as not to be taken by surprise.
There is such thing as the machin-
cry of trolley car becoming dis
abled and the car running away.
In such case, were you passenger,
what would you dor"
''I'd call for the police"
very likely, and then run out
and jump off and break your neck.
The sen siblc way would be to shut
your teeth, brace your feet and &c,
a good grip with your hands, and il
the car dashed into anything you'd
escape injury. When you are pass
ing along the walk, does it ever
occur to youthat buildings frequently
collapse and kill half DOZEN OF
more pedestrians"
81 don't believe il does"
! "Of course not 1t never does to
any woman. She goes laundering
along as il she were as safe as dollar
in a deposit vault. Always have
one eye on the buildings, Mrs.
Bowser, and at the first signal oil
danger leap for the middle OF the
street"
"But you were passing building
a few weeks ago and brickbat fell
down on your head" she protested.
"Why didn't you leap for the middle
of the street,"
Because in my GOODNESS ] observ-
ed that it was only the fall of a
single brick instead of a genera
collapse" he lameIy replied.
"Then a single brick is nothing2'
Don't take that tone with me,
woman am trying to beat little
sense into your head, and you ought
to see it. Suppose you were in a
theater when the cry Of fire was
raised-there without me. What
would you dor"
"I'd ask the person next to me
where the FIRE was"
Certainly you would, and you'd
wantto know when his or her grand
father died, whether he or she had
ever had measles or whocping cough,
whether the fire was on the stage OF
in some factory mile away, and
I'd be luckey to recover your charred
bones. Yes, you'd be sure IN fool