Show AN INFANT TERRIBLE she made a man aluah and the girla giaele literal children or more properly children who take your chiding literally are holy terrors relates a young man noted for his politeness to ladies 1 I was in a herdic the other day which was much crowded though no one was standing at the time presently a lady and gentleman sot in and I 1 gave my beat to alio lady leaving the old gentleman standing immediately a young lady bitting in one end of the hardio called to her little sister a child of 6 perhaps who was sitting near the door at the other end to come to her and give her seat to the elderly gentleman the child came willingly enough and while the sister was reading her a lesson in manners a passenger got out and I 1 took a seat never let me see you remain seated again when people older than you are standing closed the lecture and the child was crowded half sitting half standing between the older sister and the lady next to her two minutes later a pretty girl got in and of course aa the only gentleman in the herdic I 1 gave her my seat no sooner had I 1 done cothan that small terror was on her feet oh mister she said in sweet shrill accents you take my seat youa older than me and everybody laughed of course trust a lot of giggling girls for tt for the only place on earth that I 1 could have taken a seat was on the sisters lap from which the child had slid I 1 take the geat but I 1 did take to the street and walked alvo blocks in a drizzling rain to get away from the giggle of those girls washington star |