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Show Are Thanks Unnceesnry7 "A great deal is said about man being be-ing thanked for giving up their seats In tho street cars to women," said a man in conversation with a friend. "Nov?, for my part, I don't want to ba thauked for simply doing my duty." "But is it your duty," aked the friend, "to give np a seat fi,which you have paid and stand up the entire trip to accommodate a stranger?" "I look at it as a duty. It is a deal easier for a man to hang to a strap than it is for a woman. The fact that a woman is standing while I sit annoys me. It does not matter in the least to me that she is a stranger. I feel under obligations to give her my place." "That is gallantry," sneered hi friend. "It comes nearer to being reciprocity Every few days somoman gives my wifo or mother a seat in a crowded car, so I try to pass tho courtesy on. Only yesterday yes-terday I saw every man in a Gratiot avenue car give up his seat to some woman. Not one was thanked, or look woman, inuu uuu wua tuuuxeu, or iuoe ed as if ho expected to be, or indeed gave the woman in the case a chance to thank him. It was done as if all belonged be-longed to one family, but the true spirit of politeness was in the atmosphere, and thanko, though not audible, were felu To tell the truth, it embarrasses me to have a woman repeat that set formula, 'Thank you, sirl' " "I guess you're not often embar rassed, " retorted his friend cynically, and there tho conversation ended. Detroit De-troit Free Press. fair Flay For Iady Somerset. The Boston Transcript says editoria ly: It stands to reason that newspapers to whom "Gaiety Girls" are the true and only interesting type of womanhood aro finding the amiable Lady Henry Somerset, Somer-set, brilliant as she is, something of an ogre and bor6- It is a saddening test of tho taste aud character controlling American journalists today in our cities. Miss Willard says that the current paragraphs par-agraphs about this brave and brilliant English woman's so called "crusade" in this country are very nearly cruel to a woman who came to this country avowedly avow-edly to study quietly our customs and politics, and with no intention to instruct in-struct a whole country or to attack anything. any-thing. Whon the New York reporters flocked about Lady Henry Somerset on her arrival and quizzed her, she spoke of thorecsnt crusades in London against iagrant indecencies in low class thea tors, and expressed her hearty wish that ail such evils might be abated on both sides of the sea. At once it was said, and it has been ceaselessly repeated, that Lady Henry oamo here to organize n crusade, to cultivate a fad, and so forth She is certainly deeply and practically practical-ly interested in all that has any relation to highest cultivation and freedom of humanity.and she is daily found in good works, now at a convention, now at a meeting at Mrs. BuII'b house, and shfc speaks oi suffrage whenever she can be of service to the cause that she and Miss Willard have at heart Titles are, however, how-ever, a sort of natural romantic bait to our democracy, and a fiercer light than ever beat upon a native born reformer like Miss Willard inevitably falls upon the lady who is associated with her. Tho American press has long ago accepted accept-ed and honored tho exceptional and in iellectual ability and rare devotion U publio ends of Miss Willard, and it it with pleasure that in her name wo asi of it fair play and gentler courtesy foi ihat most interesting and admirable ox ample of the "now woman," in thobesi tenso of that abused term, L;uly Hem? Somerset |