The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-24
TITLE WOMAN
- BEATS BIC WOMAN
A Meeting ~ the Ticket Window
That Illustrated Certain
Feminine oaaiIisss. q

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fuf Aheuf nefta Woman has man beatau
. thousand million miles, Aha 10 eauai
~ sHy prosperity and aha ran taksthee so
AHneiy, IN q way That apparently ~ can
neyeF hota ~ emulate, IN adversely
10 circumstances IN which no will WINNER
and weHheh and W. down ahe will stand noe
only steadfast, hut smiling and seFNnsy
compelhna victory Whcre he had seen only
defeat. Shes wonder, h woman, and ALI
men might profit by hsr example, though
IN tho calm Consciousness " her etrenatbl
abe ,nay soinetimesg give exhibitions ~ nerve
which In = man va might not 40 much adj
mire,
'As. for inntancc, NJ tho ticket oflce
window, where, instead Of taking her /
plaoe az tho end Of the line and working
slowly up 10 take her turn. ahe ooolly igs \
nores the line entirely and walks straight \
90 the window 10 be served ahead Of allr
This n what I saw n large and handsome
woman do.
There were n dozen people or moro -,
In the line slowly inching its way up 70 tho
window, and this line included women, too. I
ne we'll a. men. She didn't see the line
any more than she would have seen 10 II,
at that moment, instead Of being there be-
fore her eyes, II had been painfully work.
ing Its way up the peak Of the Matterhorn,I
1000 miles away. She never so much as
glanced at II, but walked straight to the
window; and while the line came up at one
side Of 1t she stood at the other, waiting =
simply for the person at that moment in
front Of the window to get away; a proceed.
ing that, IL would probably be within the !
bounds Of reason TO say, was CALLING TO all =
the persons in line whom she would thus
ooolly compel to wait.
The incident was not without an
alleviating feature thatylater; came under /
the cognizance Of those up near the front.
As things were when the big handsome
oma walked up to the ticket window
and stood by the side of it, as described,
waiting for the person then in front OF 1T
who, also, happened to be a woman, to 60,
1t happened that the person at the head Of
the line coming up, and who in the natural
order of 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, n very gentle I
in her bearing, n the person next back I
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 waiting at the other
sue VI Ult WluuOW WIFI lnttuU COOly 10
get 10 ahead Of everybody. In other words;
would the little woman give way and let
her big sister bluff her?
But, dear, dear; the mar who questioned
thus to himself was, like most men, q weak
brother, and he had forgotten that all
women had nerve. This is what happened:
when the woman who had been buying
tickets turned away she b~lanketed, as one
might say, the woman standing waiting at
the other side OF the window, the big woman;
for about a second, or perhaps second and
a half, but certainly not more than that, a
brief time in which a man would have
fumbled and jumbled and lost 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 ID was something marvellous
to see. Without the slightest trace Of
hurry or furry, with perfect GOODNESS, ease
and grace, she moved forward, with q
sort OF unseen celebrity, the instant the
woman at the window began to turn away.
An instant later, and before that woman
30 that she could have got in, the little wom-
an was standing fairly In front Of the ticket
window and covering it from side to side
completely, to the exclusion Of every other
person In the world, standing there talking
pleasantly with the ticket man about rates
and routes and return tickets.
when the little woman had bought her
tickets and turned to go away she no more;
even then, saw the big, handsome woman
whom she had thus kept waiting than the
big, handsome woman had seen the line toll
ing up the Matterhorn, 1000 miles away
7'She's a little wonder said the maneeo
himself who had stood next to her, forgetting
again that all women are wonders, and them
any feeling OF resentment that he might
shared with the rest in the line now all
gone, he kept back. as, Of course, he would
have done anyway, while the big, handsome
woman bought her tickate.