The Washington times., 1908-09-11
Women Are as Bad or Worse
Than Men When They Re-
fuse to Move Over.
STEP ON THEIR FEET.
ADVISES WRITER
Leonore Calvert Would Have Law
Compel Trampling of Toes
of the Pest.

One might as well try to efface the
leopards spots with an application Of
soap and water as endeavor to change
by writing about them the habits of
those unpleasant citizens who cling 10
the end seats Of open ears as II all
their hopes were ineradicabIy connect
ed with that location.
The best writer's in this country have
eloquently condemned the end-seat per
son Humorists have guyed him. satir-
lists have bIunted the arrows Of their wit
upon him, and plain men have sworn
at him in print and out-and with what
effect? The end-seat person is just as
hopelessly addicted TO his particular
brand Of Wickedness as ever.
The other evening a young woman
whom l know waited at a certain cor
psT for a car She had as an escort
ksS brother-and when the car ap-
preached my friend saw that It was
very well filed. She discovered also
that the people who occupied the two
end seats in a bench near the front Of
The car were preparing 10 get out at
that corner
Women Slide Up.
What lucLl" said the girl and made
persons aligLted than the remaining oc-
cupants Of the bench hastily slid up 20
the end and spread out their clothes.
leaving one seat AT the far side. All Of
these usurpers were women. and, 1t
being Saturday night, each had as an
accompaniment a market basket, which
was placed on the floor in front Of her.
My friend is q high-tempered maiden,
do Ears IN, n
those women and over those market
baskets she took occasion to press
against the knees OF the wretched
passengers with what force she could
command. and it was sufficient to ere
ate havoc in the ranks.
Gracious, if she had waited I'd have
made room for her" said one OF the
women, rubbing her bruised bones, ana
the two who accompanied her rubbed
theirs also, and murmured that they
never had heard of such conduct, ana
IL was as much as a lady's life was
worth now to ride with some people.
Afraid to Address Her.
Meanwhile my friend maintained such
q naughty and distant air, and one so
detached from her surroundings, and
she seemed so lost~in an impenetrable
forest of thought, that they did not
dare address their complaints to her.
She, In turn. did not dare relax her
composure sufficiently to look at her
brother disconsoIately standing on the
running board and give the ecstatic gig
gle she felt the situation demanded.
When the time came for her TO leave
the car. as il did before her neighbOrs
-alighted. those persons protected their
knees from her approach, but let her
tall over the market baskets at her own
sweet will
have been in the car with men who
took the end seat AT the very beginning
OF the line. and who by actual count
were Crawled over twenty times before
they reached their destination
Women Have to Crawl.
over them crept women with heavy
suit cases, women holding babies, men
laden with garden implements, boys car
rying huge boxes, and little girls with
baskets.
And through this onslaught the end
seat person maintained his END with a
smile at his superior ability in being
able 70 win and keep against all eomers
this delightful location.
Here is a question, then, for debating
societies whose energy Is such that they
persist in deciding the affairs Of the ma
lion even during the summer. Re
fate TO be crawIed over many times
than TO be the CraWler twice at the Ut
most.
Far be it from me TO discriminate
among the sexes in this matter of hold
ing on TO the end seat There are just
as many women who offend in this
way as men, and an eul seat woman
Is worse than an end seat man be-
cause her skirts make her a more diff
cult object to pass in a narrow aisle.
Step on Their Feet.
] have ssen members of both sexes
while making an almost impossible
barrier OF themselves make no effort
to help into the car the unfortunate
person with a burden Of come sort who
tries 10 enter by that gate.
IF the punishment were made to Mt
this crime every one who takes unto
himself and keeps an end scat there
by fDCOnVenienCing MS fellows and in
turing their tempers and causing them
TO commit profanity, should be made
TO submit TO having his feet stepped
on by each person who passes him.
Once make this a law and the only
end seat which would be IL the least
popular would be that ono which is at
the far left.
LEONORE- CALVERT.