St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-12-26
THIS ONE WAS A WOMAN.
the Car, But Her Finish
Came.

~ saw something distiHctively unique
In the way Of feminine Ell was go
ing to say swinishness, but I'll let 1t
| 60 at seldshness, said . Washington
ian who is notorious for the infre-
Quency with which he emits pounds
from his facial orifice unless he has
occasion to say something, relates the
Post boarded an incoming F street
car over in Georgetown, taking the out
side position of the only vacant seat 4
couple of squares later on asquare-jawed
woman with up-tilted nose-I imme-
diately recognized her as a skirted per-
son whose portrait I had often seen
printed in the newspapers in connec-
ton with the mothers congresses and
other outfits of that character-started
to board the car at the spot where
was sitting. If ever was an end-seat
hog cut out being one a long time ago.
and SO i moved over and let her take
the outside seat. She bestowed upon
me q sort of smile of disdain, as much
as to say: What mark and a good
thing you are. to be sure!' and could
observe how acutely she enjoyed the
shadow of gloom which crossed the con-
ductor's face when she gave him five
pennies as fare.
"At the very next corner very old,
blind woman started to get into our
seat-all OF the others were nearly full
but as yet that seat Of ours held only
two. moved over to the third place,
and naturally expected that the
square jawed woman to whom had
surrendered the outside seat would, in
her turn, move over and make room on
the outside for the. old woman with
clutches. Did she? Well, not any more
than Helen of Troy ever took in wash
ing or Cleopatra made business of
picking up carpet rags, did she Worse
than that, she barely scroonched in to
let the old woman with her clutches by.
There was, at that, spiteful look on
her map over the fact that the crippled
old woman had had the nerve to want
to get into the seat at all. Two corners
farther on an old palsied man, dressed
in the old style, with high collar and
stock and all that, saw the vacant space
In that seat of ours. and he, too, had tc
struggle az best he could past tho
square-jawed woman to whom / had SO
freely passed over the end seat. The
old woman with clutches and pushed
over and made room for the old man
next to the just nachully mean woman
on the outside. g3ts,3
But something always happens to
give people of that sort dent. When
the car reached Fourteenth street and
New York avenue, a robust, middle
aged woman with q market basket
saw that there were only four in our
seat and that all of the rest Of the
seats held i've. She swung herself on
board with her basket held over her
arm. The woman on the outside glared
ct her. 8 So . 4 ~ -
There's no room in this seat she
snapped, angrily. at the woman with
the market basket.
an with an expression of calm surprise
Tor moment. Then she said:
They hain't, hey? Well, you don't
never want t. git no sech idee as that
acne in your pighead. Cynthia-there's
room, right where you're sittin' this
and that'll be good enough for
me- and she deliberately pushed the
mean woman over and crushed herself
into the outside position-and never
felt SO much like applauding out of a
theater as did right then.
It's easy to see what kind of train
ing you have had, 'snarled the woman
who had been so effectively displaced.
You needn't lose no sleep botherin'
bout my rearin',' was the calm reply |
Of the woman with the market basket
I know one place where wasn't raised
and that's hogpen. and that's q heap
more n Gamble said by huil.~lot OF
sashayin' female critters what go a-f1at-
In up and down maxim holy shows O. |
their manners e%
"The mean woman left the car at |
Ninth street, with her tip-tilted nose
still in the air. But she was carrying |
The loser out's pennant all the same"