The Washington herald., 1907-03-31
NOT A GOOD JOB FOR HENRY
4 Little Drama Staged on a Chicago
Suburban Train.
Brute I'm Human Form WOuIdn'i
Give Up to the Big Woman, and
Her Husband Was Helpless.

/ It was one Of the early evening express
trains for the South Side and had not
been filed % the capacity which excltes
the ire Of DIR. Masrice Doty and the
other traction experts employed by the
mayor, says the Chicago Inter Ocean.
/ There was some room in il when il had
rounded 10 the Congress Street Station,
/ but there few belsted shoppers fled
aboard, carrying bundles and packages
/ Of ali kinds, and soon, in less time than
/ lt takes "a tell it, every available seat
had been taken, and the only persons
standing were "A large woman with a COM
manding sort of look, and a small man.
/ her husband. who looked like the type OF
the common people as pictured by GER
I tain cartoonists who represent him as a
worried, downtrodden sort OF creature.
/ The woman looked sternly about at the
various masculine citizens Of Chicago
screened by their evening papers, and no
one paid the slightest attention 10 her
Her husband looked uneasily around.
knowing his wife and fearing what might
happen.
/ One or two women seated near her
glanced up occasionally, taking mental
notes of her hat, her attire. and other ap-
/ p0intments, as women viii. The large
woman was getting visibly angry. espe-
ciaily as she noticed that there did not
seem TO be any one who was inclined to
rise cOurte0usly, tip h.s hat and say:
Take my seat lady"
Finally IL became apparent that her ire
was ceutering on a large. self-contained
man, who was not reading a paper. but
was calmly surveying everything within
the car with a lordly glance, very much
as the woman herself might have looked
had she been sitting down instead OF
ciinging undignidedly TO a strap.
Ever and anon the woman shot a
glance at the large man, and once she
caught his eye squarely and looked at
him in a manner intended to be COM
peliing, enticing. and finally quailing
But the large man refused to be COM
PEELED, enticed, or quailed into giving up
his seat lie beamed at her in an irri-
tating Chicago manner and made no
effort 10 rise
The situation was beginning to attract
the attention OF other passengers. and
the large woman. realizing that she was
being noticed, decided that It was time
for her 10 act. The attention of the car
by this time had been centered on the lit
are 0idiiids ana tne drdfuatlS perSODae-
the large woman, the large man. and the
diminutive husband.
As the train slowed down at one of
the stations the voice Of the large woman
was heard raised above the noise of the
trucks. With her glance Tiveted on the
large man the woman said TO her husband
with all the se0rn and dramatic voice
of which she was capable;
Henry. If you were a man you would
not stand there like a hitching post and
permit your wife to stand while a big
brute in human form occupies a seat like
that man and eompels a lady to stand.
Henry, why don't YOU do sOmething?"
The occupants of the car were breath
lessly interested, but the man 10 whom
the remarks We're addressed was plainly
embarrassed lie was opening his mouth
to speak, the while taking in the bulk
OF the huge person who had incurred the
enmity of his wife.
But the large man spoke first. With
caimness that was exasperating he
beamed upon the lady swaying helplesslv
on the end Of the strap. Then he non
chaiantly reached over, slapped her hus
band reprovingly on the wrist. aud said
Now, Henry, don't you start any
thing.