| Show On the Trail of the Polite il By WEX JONES I Dyne Dyllo commissioned to in tn the manners manner o edl anu U hospitality of the tho New NelD Yorker dressed In her ACT shabbiest hobbled clothe cIotha I and tallied sallied forth I Y are real impolite At AtC 6 C one evening I went Into the tha I station at the Bridge and asked the tha ticket seller If It It would be quicker for tor me meto meto f to take his bis Subway or the Third Avenca I I V L to get to No West One Hundred J and street He lie curtly re reI piled that he tell and a Ii very rude rudo I man In the long line lice behind me called calle l out Aw get a map I I r described the house to him and anci told any ao one In the Bronx would know It by b the apple tree before th the thedoor thedoor door It grow any apples on It Iti i any more but of ol course Its still an apple appletree I tree The Tile ticket seller leller said he hI liv livIn In the Bronx Bron he ho lived In Brooklyn which watch seems funny think hed hod live UTe near the theline thelIne theline line he worked for I bought a ticket and when I forgot to drop It In b the box the tha I ticket chopper very rudely rudel ran tan after me Ine and aud demanded It Then Thea the raard asked I me not to stand In the door when I asked him If the Broadway express I change to the Bronx line as I was In such sucha I a hurry Rudeness Is la the predominating I note In tile trie Subway I went to a 4 church on Eight Hundred and Ninetieth avenue last Sunday I was given ben a seat but not cot one person asked me ma mato meto meto to dinner I Meeting a policeman on 01 the street I told lold him I WItS wag afraid Mrs cat would get Into my room some lame day and eat ut my m ca canary canary nary and asked him to please arrest the cat at once He lie said no crime had bad been committed commUted and I told him the police were there to prevent nt crime Theo The the traffic got all aU blocked and the policeman deliberately atel turned away from me and began shouting at a truck driver I pulled pulled his hla arm ariD and he said crossly that be he bother with an old cat I wonder To test the politeness of ot the men on the tha ferries terries I crossed the Hudson linds rl on one of ot the Sideways of ot New Sew Jersey boats Halfway over I uttered a n piercing scream scream and cried that a child bad had fallen overboard The fer ter ferry terry ferry ry was stopped and the men asked ma mil where where It was has A tug bumped Into us we stopped so quick and every one got In n a panic and there was an awful rumpus I told the men I sure whether It was waa wasA a child or a newspaper that had blown over and the rudeness of ot those ruf rut ruffians flans fians A deckhand laughed a coarse sarea sar sarcastic castic ea tie laugh and the captain swore dread dreadfully dreadfully fully 1 I No Xo politeness there 1 found one polite man In New York I Iwas Iwas Iwas was trying to find a place at dusk yester yesterday yesterday day d 1 evening and I happened to ask a pleasant young man the way say I told him I Iwas Iwas Iwas was from Boston Doston and know the th city lit LIe U Came ame from Boston Doston too he be said and he ha happened to be going to the very cry next house to the one I wanted so he would be bo delighted to show me the way lIe He really was a very verr nice young man and I was al almost almost most mOlt sorry when we parted and he went off ort very cr hurriedly P S Most annoying I lost my watch quite a valuable one somewhere last night I suppose Its useless to advertise In a city cU where Ive only met one really polite man mau |
