The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-16

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so far as he is concerned, he infinite.
ly prefers to walk rather than to
;tand-whlch latter. all said and done,
Is about all that riding amounts TO
nowadays. That does not alter the
'act. however, that. with the coming
Of automobiles and rapid transit OF
)ne kind or another. Shank's Mare Is
going out of fashion, together with
other equines. Modern society is
Sell.nigh as shy of using its legs as il
OF talking about them, and pres
sntly, IL we 60 on at this rate, these
hitherto useful appendages will have
become, before we know It, merely
| rudimentary and our arms abnormally
developed and strengthened as re-
suit OF hanging on straps. as are those
of our alleged ancestors, the anthro-
poid ape, as result OF hanging on
branches. | use the word alleged"
advisedly. Surely there is little
enough to be proud of in the contem-
plation OF the average family tree,
without chasing back some millions Of
years for the purpose of populating II
with the unsympathetic and avowedly
| plainfta,ured chimpanzee, We may
have descended from the branches,
but from the anthropoid ape? Perish
the thought
Admitting the need OF public con-
veyances. which one is compelled 10
do so long as babies, bundles and loco
motor ataxia continue to flourish. is
not TO admit the need Of their mani.
fold inconvenience For IL is mani
fest that we are working out the prob
lem Of transit by the process OF rnul-
tiplicatlon of the public to be pro.
vided for and OF addition, IL not sub
traction, of the accommodations. That
is no kind OF arithmetic. Already,
rapid transit is walking with a limp.
Sooner or later 1t will be going around
on one leg. + pluribus unum "a a
very noble sentiment. The same can
not be said of plures I'm uno-part!cu-
larly il the uno be public conveyance.
We Americans are notoriously good.
n2tured and long.suffering. but there
Is such a thing as carrying good ma
tcre to the extreme. st present il Is
pertinent TO inquire whether we are
prepared to stand anything and every.
thing from the companies who pre-.
tend TO transport us in comfort from
one place TO another. Apparently We
are; and the mightier the company,
and the more modern the conveyance,
the more we stand. The which is no
mere idle figure of speech.
But let us lay bitterness aside. For
to recommend a more consistent and
constant use of our legs does not of
necessity mean that We should be
etelnally kicking. Let us, on the
contrary, strive to see wherein lies
the compensation for the discomfort
attendant upon the intimate proXim.
lty OF unlimited numbers of our fel-
low.men. This will most certainly not
prove to be a mere wild goose chase.
Whatever IL may be in the way Ct
injustice, a discomfort and an impo-
sition, your crowded trolley is fer
tile field for the study OF human ma
ture. Primarily, it teaches you that,
whatever your lack of beauty MAJ Na,
Il cannot compare with that of Others,
II II is true that beauty is only Skin
!
the eel, has become used TO being
skinned. The operation has been per
formed. with consummate efficacy and
dispatch. upon the faces of an over
whelming majority of those whom one
meets in the average trolley. This
is undeniahly true, but none the less
uncharitable. After all, they can't
help IL, the poor things! But, then,
after all, one can't help being unchar.
liable. It's more comfortable than
the other thing. Charity, you know,
suffereth all things. That's a pretty
hard load on the shoulders of charity!
To come back to our fellow.trolley.
ers-place aux damesl The ladies'
bless em-are not to be judged by ap.
pearances. Were they, we should
| arrive at the conclusion that not one
In nifty OF those who board trolley has
| the most remote conception of where
she Is going, or how to get there.
| They scramble on with an eagerness
| which seems 10 suggest that this par
| ticular car is the last which will
ever pass, and when they have re.
| covered breath IL am merely a man
cannot know how this is done in
the case Of woman. but IL seems 10
be accomplished by turning her veil
up across her nose), they appeal to
the conductor:
Does this car so To Asterisk
avenue?"
Yes. madam"
| "Oh. pshawl Please let me of M
the next .corner!"
They depart with an air OF wrongod
innocence. leaving their feilow.passen.
gers consumed with curiosity TO know
whether their object in getting on WAS
10 be taken somewhere as a surprise
an object at once defeated by learn.
ing the name OF their destination.
Such evidence of instability is fatal to
contemplated matrimony. and some one
is always contemplating matrimony--
| even in trolley. The latter has
confirmed more bachelors than the