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Show Woman's Inhumanity. Woman's inhumanity to man is a cood deal in ovldotfco. The late Senator Sena-tor Morion of Indiana was, it will be remembered, iin.lnvi.lld and a cripple. Be came into a company at tho capital one day in a btate of great Indignation because In-a street car crowded with .young women not ono had offered him seal and he had been compelled to make the journoy painfully and 'precariously 'pre-cariously supported upou tils crutches. The like f this may bo yery often soen. Humanity, consideration for weakpess And helplessness, Is tho root of which chivalry Is tho fine flower. It Is a tattling proposition that man's Inhumanity Inhu-manity to man is less than woman's, but tho timo seems to lye It soiuo Proof, At any rate, a man evidently disabled would not bo allowed to staud ,Q it public conveyance! ,lu which able-bodied able-bodied man was seated, oyen In the Host unchivalrous part of our country, which I have given some reasons for Sieving to be the cliy of Njbw York -And, U that bo true, It soonis tbat tho Wiumptlon of the right of an able- bodied woman to remain seated while a disabled man Is slanping in an assumption as-sumption that tho clalmd of chivalry aro supitrlnr 10 those of humanity. On the ot hoi hHnd.lt may fairly bo said that tho selflshnrss of women with ro gard to tho wayfaring man is mnro thoughtless and perfunctory than the selfishness of men with regard to tho wayfaring Woman, In this country, at least, this latter lain all cases felt to be a violation of propriety and decency. de-cency. The native American fee.ls himself him-self tn be both on his defense and without with-out defense, when ho Is arralgnod for it. From "The Point of View," In tho July Scribner's. |