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Show A fUlngtuf Rebuke. It was on a street car bound tip town at about the time when the men and women who work in the great down town hive of business for the better part of the day are hurrying home. Every Beat was occupied when tho car stopped-and stopped-and two women boarded it. The first was un elderly woman, somewhat feeble. Tho second was younger, sturdy and aggressive ag-gressive looking. A good looking man of middle age arose from bis seat, and touching hia hat asked the elderly lady to be seated. Before she could sit down, however, the younger woman pushed her aside and Eat down herself. There was no one in the car who did not know that the man who had given up his seat intended it for the older woman, and the action of the younger one astonished everybody for a moment. Then half a dozen seats were vacated and the elderly woman took one of them. The man who had first given up his seat raised his hat to the woman who had taken the place not intended for her and said in a voice that could be heard throughout the car: "Madam, I believt) you to be among that class of women who are always complaining of man's luck of courtesy toward women. You will pardon me if I say that you are also ono of that class of women who tempt men to be discourteous." Then ho calmly proceeded to read his evening paper. An audiblo snicker ran, through the car and one woman whispered to another: an-other: "Served her right." The woman flushed and looked straight before her, paying no attention. She stood the looks of tho other passengers for fully half a dozen blocks. Then she signaled the conductor and, looking neither to the right nor the left, swept out of the car. A man who had curiosity enough to also leave tho car at the samo placo and watch her saw her board the neit uptown car that came along. Tho rohuko had had its effect. New York Mail and Express. |