Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-18
WOMAN IN TIME OF DANGER.
When Frightened Gan Be Depended
 On to Do Something Unusual.

t. I ' q q sSE Speeding down Michigan avenue the other evening in his automobile with feminine companion, Sidney Cor ham, secretary of the Automobile club. suddenly spied a cat in the middle of
 the road staring at his headlight.
 Now, Pm going to get that cat," he remarked to his companion, who earn
 estly begged him to desist. "No,' he; persisted. there are too many stray cats proving about the world al- straight ahead. Within five feet of the bewildered animal, which for some strange reason, had not budged, the girl leaned forward in her intense sympathy for the poor cat about to be crushed. MT Gorha n, running his
 machine at the rate of twenty-five
 miles an hour, suddenly veered to the side. He saved the cat, but pretty nearly lost his companion, who, un abfe.t preserve her poise, went pitch ing out of the vehicle he catching her 1 by the coat just in time to save a ca. ! tastrophe.
 l This is only one of the many incl.
 dents in which the eternal feminiDe'
 wilt do an unusual or unguarded thing in the presence of sudden fright. Not that women are any more susceptible 1 to loss of presence of mind than men, generally. On the contrary, from the testimony of those who have had wide experience In dealing with both sexes 1 in the presence of scares of any kind, women hold equal rank with men--in
 ease of fire, runaways, in burglar
 rights and in automobile scares, in
 spite of the exception given.
 Tn fact,' continues Mir German,
 aIy;. GrH rr,r, , wife keeps her head just as well as l
 do, and the same thing is. true of pret-
 ty nearly all the women know. Of
 course, we don't have much to frighten
 US. Accidents are really much more ' rare than people generally suppose. i With confidence in their operator. ] when they are not scared out of it, as : in the case I have just related-wemen i do not always realize real danger when I it comes
 ..The narrowest escape ever had occurred when there were three wo-
 men in my automobile was running
 down a small hill over a narrow road with high banks on either side and only four feet of way when 1 spicd
 broken bottle in the middle of the l track. I turned to the left side. seek 1 ing to save my tire, when suddenly
 found the wheels sliding down the
 bank. I called instantly to the women l to jump Then I sat and waited. At
 that moment would have taken a l hundred dollars for that machine,
 which paid $2,5O0 for. It looked as I if it still might go over any moment
 and land at the bottom of the bank upside down. managed to save it. l but would you believe that when l
 asked those women to get out they
 simply giggled? I knew of course the
 switch was thrown and that we might
 be hurled into eternity any moment" l An energetic but inexperienced girl
 will act differently from sympathetic
 or we'll poised woman. A case is re lated of one girl out in an automobile 1 for the first time. The operator, who
 was likewise inexperienced, had the l lever reversed and did not know it. 1 Suddenly tie machine began backing, ! driving straight for curb. The ener-
 getic girl rose up and called "Whoas l Whoa!'' much to the amusement of the
 crowd watching the performance. Her l lack of reserve and loss of presence of.
 mind manifested itself in the presence of sudden fright.
 Another energetic woman, perfectly ] able to keep cool on all occasions, may perform a deed of real heroism in the
 case of sudden danger. "In fire scares, i says Marshal Campion of Engine house l 5, .'I can't see but woman is just as
 brave as a man any time. I pretty
 nearly lost my life once, and would
 have, had it not been for a woman. l was down in the basement of an old dance hall on the west side, which was in mass of flames, and had simply
 lost my way. called up in my dilem- l ma and it was woman who stood at l the head of the stairs and directed me out with flames sweeping about like l mad.
 .sStill. women do lose their heads. Just short time ago one woman came
 out of burning building with her hat
 and bandbox and left $500 worth of l jewels on her dresser. As luck would have it, though. they were buried in the clustering and she recovered them l iater.' Chicago Tribune.