The Cairo bulletin., 1906-10-30
THE LITTLE WOMAN
BEATS BIG WOMAN


that for sheer nerve woman has man
beaten thousand million miles. She
is equal to any prosperity, and she
can take the gaff gamely, in way
that apparently he can never hope to
emulate, in adversely.
In circumstances in which he viii
whimper and weaken and lie down
she will stand not only steadfast, but
smiling and serene, compelling vic
tory where he had seen only defeat.
She's wonder, is woman, and all men
might profit by her example; though
IN the calm consciousness of her
strength she may sometimes give eX'
hiDitions OF nerve which in a man We
might not so much admire
AS, for instance, at the ticket ".
flee window, where, instead Of taking
! her place at the end Of the line and
working slowly up to take her turn.
! she coolly ignores the line entirely,
and walks straight to the window to
be served ahead of all That is what
/ saw a large and handsome won.
an do.
There were dozen people or more
in the line slowly inching its way up
| 10 the window, and this line included
women, too, as well as men. She
didn't see the line any more than she
would have seen it If at that moment
instead OF being there before her
eyes. it had been painfully working Its
way up the peak OF the Matterhorn,
1000 miles away. She never so much
as glanced at it, but walked straight
to the window; and while the line
came up at one side of it she stood at
the other, waiting simply for the per-
con at the moment in front of the
window to get away; a proceeding
that, it would probably be within the
bounds of reason to say was calling to
all the persons whom she would thus
coolly compel to wait
The incident was not without an
alleyiating feature that, later. came
under the cognizance Of those up near
the front As things were when the
big handsome woman walked up to the
ticket window ana stood by the side
Of it, as described, waiting for the
person at the head Of the line coming
up, and who in the natural order o.
things would next have been served.
was a woman. This woman at the
head of the line was a little woman.
very pretty but small and slender.
and very gentle in her bearing. and
the person next back of her, who hap
pened to be a man, wondered in his
heart, some, about what this little
woman would do when it came her
turn and she came up against the big
handsome woman standing there walt
ing at the other side OF the window
with intent coolly to get in ahead of
everybody In other words, would the
little woman give way and let her big
sister bluff her?
But dear, dear the man who ques-
toned thus to himself was, like most
men weak brother, and he had for
gotten that all women had nerve. This
is what happened
when the woman who had been
buying tickets turned away she blank
standing waiting at the other side Of
the window, the big woman, for about
a second or perhaps a second and
half but certainly not more than that.
a brief time in which a man would
have fumbled and iumbled and lo-t
his chance. 1t was an ample time
allowance, however, for the little
woman calmly waiting at the head OF
the line, and the manner in which
she improved it was something mar
velous to see Without the slightest
trace of hurry or furry. with perfect
GOODNESS. ease and grace, she moved
forward, with a sort of unseen celer-
ty. the instant the woman at the win
low began to turn away An instant
ater. and before that woman had fair
" cleared the big handsome woman,
90 that she could have got in the lit
lie woman was standing fairly In
ront of the ticket window and cover
ng 1t from side to side completely.
o the exclusion of every other per-
.on in the world, standing there talk
ng pleasantly with the ticket man
.bout rates and routes and return
ickets.
When the little woman had bought
Ter tickets and turned to so away
he no more even then, saw the big.
handsome woman whom she had thus
.ept waiting than the big, handsome
woman had seen the line toillnS up
he Matterhorn, 1000 miles away.
She's a little wonder said the
aan to himself who had stood next to
er. forgetting again that all women
re wonders, and then, any feeling OF
esentment that he might have shared
nth the rest in the line now all gone.
e kept back. as. of course, he would.
ave done anyway while the big.
apdsome woman bought her tickets.
Sentiment vs.. Weddings.
Very few people have the courage