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Show s.J-1-iJuismsjiu ' i. ' " mi DANGER TO RUBBERNECKS. Five Accidents Occur Daily Because Women Insist on Staring at One Another. Five women n day, according to the police reports, nre hurt In the shopping shop-ping district by street cars or other vehicles running Into them, borne of the cases are serious, nnd demand the removal of the Injured persons to a ' hospital or their homes. The great ma- Jorlty of these accidents crossing po- Ucemen declare, nro due to what Is vulgarly called "rubbernecking," "Nine women out of ten who nro hurt by street cars or vehicles drawn by horses havo only themselves to blatne," said nn officer who for several vcarB had guarded a Utate street crossing, cross-ing, "I have Been dozens of women Injured down hero In the retail district, nnd I never saw ono who met with an accident who was not 'rubbernecking' For Instance, a woman will start to cross the street with an armful of bundles bun-dles Half-way over, In the middle of the car trncks, she turns nround to look at a woman who has passed her from the opposite direction. Perhaps It was the woman's hat or the hang of tho skirt that has caused tho other woman to stop and 'take her In ' At nny rate, sho stands there llko a block of stone, deaf to tho clanging of the car bell and the shouts of the people who see her danger, Vlnallv, alter she has feasted her eves on the hat or skirt, or whatever what-ever It was that enught her fancy, she wakes up and llnds u street enr or vehicle ve-hicle of some kind bearing down an her. bhe Is confused, nnd doesn t know which wny to turn. Tho chances are 100 to 1 that she will step In frunt of the enr or can Inge, If sho has to run live feet to do It, nnd then tho ambulance ambu-lance Is called. Sho tells hr husband and evervbody else that the motorman or grlpmun, ns the civso might be, tried deliberately to run her down "Tho same thine Is true of a great many men who nro Injured down town. 'Iwo men out of live (lhats a canservn- tlve estimate) will turn around ten time In wulklng one block to look at women who attract their notice And, do ou know. It s a habit with a whole lot of men, I know some of the most respectable men In Chicago, who In every other way ato model husbands, I who arc victims of this habit of 'rub- bernecklng' If a woman attempted to flirt with them they would take to the woods, but they will turn nround and I secretly ndmlra some woman they I never saw before and never expeat to Bee again." Chicago Tribune |