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Show Her Lucky Chance. (Chicago Time-Hea'ald.) Chicago has some dirty streets and much of rhe paving is in bad condition, but Deati Stuhbs may well be given to understand here and now that chivalry is still 'abiding with us. A Northwestern elevated express train stopped at Chicago avenue yesterday morning, and a woman who must have weighed about :U7 pound: without her fall jacket on, gor. aboard. She was not a tall woman. Gaze with your mind's eye at the broad side of a load of hay with a pumpkin on top of it and you will have botore you such a picture of the lady as un impressionist of the advanced school would mike. It happened that every seat in the car which she entered was-occupied, and for a moment she stood alone in the aisle, the only passenger that was not receiving all that the nickel invested at the guto called for. Two young men who seemed to b stranger sat near the spot where the fat. lady stood. They looked -at her and then at each other, and without saying anything any-thing got up. The woman glanced at the place they had vacated as if measuring it with her eye. anil then Fat down, saying: "Thank you. gentlemen; I am so glad you were sitting together." |