The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-21

strange. red tsOn. had not budged. the girl leaned Forward in her intense sym pathy for tlae poor cat about to be crushed Mir. Gorham, running his machine at 4he rate of twenty-five miles an hour. suddenly veered to the side. He sayed the cat, but pretty nearly lost his companiOn, who, una ble to preserve her pOise, went pitching out of the vehicle, he catching her by the coat just in time to save a eatas- trophe.
 This is only one of the many incl dents in which the eternal feminine' will do an unusual or unguarded thing in the presence of sudden fright. Not that women are any more susceptible to loss of presence of mind than men, generally. On the contrary, from the testimony of those who have had wide experience of scares of any kind, wo- men hold equal rank with men-in eases of fire, runaways, in burglar flights and in automobile scares. in spite of the exception given.
 Tn fact" continues MT. Gorham, speaking of automobiling, 'I find my wife keeps her head just as well as do, and the same thing is true of pret- ty nearly all the women I know. Of course, we don't have much to frighten us. Accidents are really much more rare than people generally suppose. With confidence in their operator when they are not scared out of it, as in the case have just related-women do not always realize real danger when it comes.
 'The narrowest escape I ever had oe- cured when there were three women in my auto. was running down a small hill over a narrow road with high banks on either side and only four feet of way when spied broken bottle in the middle of the track. turned to the side, seeking to save my tire, when I suddenly found the wheels sliding down the bank I called instantly to the women to jump. Then I sat and waited. At that moment I would have taken a hundred dollars for that ma chine, which I paid twenty-five hun dred dollars for. It looked as if it still might go over any moment and land at the bottom of the bank upside down. l managed to save. it, but would you believe that when asked those women to get out they simply giggled? I knew of course the switch was thrown and that we might be hurled into eter- nity any moment" - t.ss-...., -...
 An energetic but inexperienced girl will act differently from a sympathetic or well poised woman. A case is rela- ted of one girl out in an automobile for the first time. The operator, who was likewise inexperienced, had the lever reversed and did not know it. Sudden- ly the machine began backing. driving straight for curb. The energetic girl rose up and called "Whoai Whoa!" much to the amusement of the crowd watching the performance. Her 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 Tn fire scares,'' says Marshal Campion of En- zine House 5, 1T can't see but a wo- man 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. was down in the basement of an old dance hall on the West Side, which was in mass of flames, and I had simply lost my way. I called up in my dilemma, and it was woman who stood at the head of the stairs and directed me out with flames sweeping about like mad.
 ''Still, women do lose their heads. Just short time ago one woman came out of burning building with her hat and bandbox and left five hundred dol lars worth of jewels oni her dresser. As luck would have 1t, though, they were buried in the clustering and she recovered them later. Chicago Tri- bune.