Year: 1878

Some or the Advantages that she Enjoys


It has often been affirmed, and with truth


that nowhere in the world may young


woman travel with greater security than II


America. Along the whole route she find;
men ready. to put themselves to personal III
convenience o OF re her, and who dO moi


presume on what they do toingratiate them.


selves. Men sep forward rs her protectors


as if it were according to law of the state
! instead of a custom, and were any one to
treat her wieh discourtesy defenders would
spring up on all Sides With chain Of con-
ductors she will pass from one end of the
| Union to the other, with perhaps more care


than If she were under the charge of rela-
tive. In this general attention with which
| the pretty woman Is surrounded 1t Is seldom
| there is an Interior motive, as there Is, for
| instance In country like France, where 1t
| is not safe for her to accept the proifered
| service of the other sex, for the Frenchman
| stands ready to make his declaration ON shght
provocation In America the recognition OF
her right to Difference in all her wishes, some


times, and particularly of late years, has led
her to claim as arigh. what was only extend


ed as courtesy Hence her neglect to re-
! turn thanks for the seat yielded up IN the
car: hence the growing reluctance IN the
man to resign his seat, IN the spirit OF the
turning worm which Will not DE trodden on
forever. This reluctance, however, Is con-
fined to the large cities. In the towns and
villages throughout the Union the man still
gives up his seat to woman, though he be
old and feeble and she be young and strong.
This is gallantry that costs something 1
L., lxp,x utT


extra seats with bundles that might have


been placed under the seat or hung up in the


racks while group of men stood, without


being able to rest themselves, and they never


complained Such an incident could hardly


occur III any other country. For three hours


these victims with aching limbs stood with


out a .nurmur, looking from time TO time to


the coveted seats occupied with the bundles,


not daring to hit mp a voice to ask for one.


Their faces showed plainly that they would


haze liked 10 sit down, bnt their exceeding
respec. for the sex would not permit them to
approach the indifferent young woman who
kept guard over the places with their traps


Ii did not even occur TO them to speak to
the conductor Had this situation presented
itself IN France, Gaul would have approach
ed this femme group hat IN hand, with allow
asking a thousand pardons, then he would


have quietly installed himself in the seat he
had paid for and to which he was entitled.


He would, OF course, have invested The act
| with much form he would have been dis


tressed beyond measure to have them move


their bundles, bccn dcsolatei at the trouble


he gave, but would individually have secured


his scat. On the other hand, supposinS his
advances to Lave been met with a refusal,


he wsuId have called tire conductor, aad


asked for seat or his money, and the dis


co.niitetl danes would have had to submit.
Now. were ~ American to meet with such 4
rebaf from the other sex, he would retreat


to another corner, without an idea of having
RECOURSE to the Official Of the train to claim


his nghts.-GatG'3.