The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-06

she had was grudgingly given, the mother arose, and stood. This still had no effect on the young woman except that she perceptibly stiffened her neck.
 Perhaps 1t did not occur to her to take the child on her knee; perhaps she thought to do 1t, but the possibility of wrinkles in her soft, pretty skirt de- tered her; perhaps she thought it mat tered little if the other person did stand if she was comfortable.
 But it matters not what she thought, this thing is true, that a persons lib- erty leaves off where another's begins. And the pretty brown suit, with it's broidered bands, the lace hat with it's ostrich feathers, the delicate filigre of the gold hatpin, the slender gold chain that secured her glasses, the jeweled brooch that fastened the lace at her throat all counted for naught in the eyes of her fellow passengers, for she had been in- considerate.
 Refinement is not a commodity to be purchased, but quality to be cultivated, and all the education that can be crowd ed into one life will scarcely be suffi- cient to wipe out the stains of ill-breed- ing.
 Morally speaking, of this whole af fair, the mother standing in the aisle was of least importance, for she could get rested from her enforced discomfort, the thoughtlessness of the young mother was bad, but the fact that the oppor- tunty was not seized to implant the seed of thoughtfulness and consideration in the mind of that innocent child was de- plorable."
 "One evening a lady walked into a car a few moments before o'clock and was comfortably seated. Very soon the car began to be filled with men and women tlaa .fr. l int. the faces of the passengers as they hur- red in, her eyes fastening at last upon a woman who had already gained the middle of the car and was standing To this frail-looking little creature she went and leading her to the seat she had been occupying said: I feel like a crim- inal to be on the car at this hour and to keep my scat. Please take it. She said further: That no woman of leisure had a moral right to be on the cars at 6 o'clock when the working people were going home. That 1t was easy enough to stand on some convenient corner, reach the car and get a seat before some wom- an who had been working hard all day behind a counter, and who had to run in order not to miss the car altogether.
 Let us think about this bit. Is this a fair chance for the working woman? Is 1t considerate? Then, perhaps, some man whose existence Is already almost frayed out of him with honest toll makes the car as it rounds the corner, and falls into a seat, at the next stop woman rushes in out of breath because she has tarried too long over the lace counter or bargains and this poor man, even if the life is tired out of him. has his chiv- airy left, gets up and offers his seat to the woman; she takes it, and thinks it is due her. Just stop one minutes; isn't something due the man?"
 "A very pretty woman walked into a car and appropriated a whole chair. A few seconds more and other women got on, but she only sat a little more firmly. She evidently interpreted literally the old adage, Keep in the middle of the road, for she kept In the middle of the seat, looking neither to the right nor the left. If it Is uncomfortable for a fat woman to have only A portion of seat, how uncomfortable is it for the woman who stands in the aisle? The golden rule ap- piled to this problem will get the correct solution"