Show STREETCAR politeness men who are standing ivall rights to a sat almost invariably have you ever noticed asked an observing young woman how much politer men are who anre standing up in streetcars than men who are sitting down I 1 confessed that I 1 had not says a york herald writer well you watch and ou will find out that I 1 am right it is comparatively seldom that I 1 enter a crowded car and have a man rise to offer me his scat most men settle themselves comfortably stick their noses more deeply into their newspapers and pretend they dont see me hacking fast to the strap eliut if anyone should then vacate a seat and a man was standing by it the chances arc fifty to one that he would beckon me to come over and take it rather than sit down himself ov this imagination ive noticed it scores of timea I 1 think men go on the principle that possession is nine tenths of the law or rather I 1 might sy nine tenths of politeness what a man has lie keeps and lie says hang politeness but if he is already standing it is just as easy for him to keep on standing and in that case politeness lit eness lias some show with him im not talking nonsense now she went on with a merry laugh im talking fact and if you dont believe it you can easily get proof for yourself |