Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-11-17
A Trying Experience Made
Humorous.
Made
editor Edgefield Advertiser:

your readers, and to those of them
who are students of sociology prove
Interesting, not because it is an ex-
ceptional one, but because it is not.
There are those who will tell you
that it is one of the outcomes of the
agitation for equal suffrage but we
contend that it lies deeper than that,
and furthermore, that the agitation
for equal suffrage was an outcome
of that social deterioration. herein
depicted.
Weary of bone and flesh we were
glad when we heard the porter's cal,
"Southern train for Augusta" land
all the rest thatrgoes with it,: How
soothing, after strenuous day at
the fair! We would now get settled
for a good, long rest and perhaps,
incidently snooze "wee bit" But
did we?
There were something like eight
coaches. After threading several we
gave up the search and of sheer ne
cessity consigned our weary bones
in a leaning posture to space mer-
cifully vacant behind the last seat,
next to the rear door.
This seat was occupied by two gen.
tlemen who told each other that they
had come early to get that scat and
they meant to keep it. Why tell it!
After assuring ourselves that what
we were doing was the best we be-
gan to take in what was going on
around US.
We saw frail women, bending un-
der the weight of babies, and some
times leading another, search in vain
for seats and pass out the further
door without response from any OF
the many gentlemen who were COM
1fortably seated. How we wished we
had seats to give them.
We overheard someone say they
ought to have had better sense than
ito have come, but that is irrelevant.
The fact remains that such thing
could and did happen in the proud
State of the Palmetto.
Later we spied two valises- under
.the shadow of the seat behind which
I'VE stood, and in desperation one OF
Ms said to the other, "Let's turn these
down and sit on them" But as light
ming darteth out Of the east and SHIN
eth even unto the west, so darteth
out from seat opposite, man.
and he snatched them away! Alas,
for rest! When we had recovered
from our surprise and-wel, cha
.erin-one of us said to the other,
:HDo YOU suppose there was anything
an there that would break!"
Our presence got very oppressive
ito the gentlemen in the seat behind
which we stood, and they began TO
sauirm. Now you are thinking we
ARE going to say they bowed US into
their seats, but they didn't. Had they
we should ihave written "Here endeth
THE story" but it doesn't. Instead,
one Of them suggested that we might
ttfnd seats at the upper end of the
coach. (Sharp as a darning needleD y
We thanked him for his Interest and
eourtesy(?) and gently but firmly
: reminded him that on account of be-
ing standing we could see all the way
up to the other dooB and there was
not probably any.
To relieve them of their unac-
countabie embarrassment because
there were women standing around
we went over and fshed some waste
paper out of the empty coal bin and
perched upon the edge of the bin.
When the conductor came along
he promised lis sesta. but all he could
do was to say he had tried: He
threatened to demand them, but We
objected to that, we didn't feel JUS
tifable in taking that sort of seat,
notwithstanding our utter despera-
ton, call it what you may. He rooted
a valise out from somewhere and in
sisted that we turn it down and sit
on it. but we suggested that there
might be something in there that
would break! "Oh," he said, 81 nev-
err thought of that" (evidently a
relative of Everett True.) We grin
ned and he grinned and we stuck to
the coal bin.
Just across the grill work back of
us were two gentlemen exchanging
most interesting condolences, sand
,wiching them with these necessary
"a ..adiuncts at the lower ends of all
mill-ponds. They were in a good hu-
. mon, so we argued they were short
on.words and that one came in han
'dy. We hadn't thought of it before, ;;
/; but -adiectives may be scarcer and
more inadequate than the other parts
of: speech.
Every few minutes some restless
seatless youth opened the door anc
let in the icy air and a volume OF
cigarette smoke. We did not so much
+. mind the. air, but the smoke was so
disagreeable we had to take refuge
behind the seat again. Tobacco is like
onions. yeuahave to eat onions IN
: self defense when your men do, and
/, they ought to quit TOBACCO s,n or BUY u;
One, moor fellow came by and hes