Show I 1 ON STRAN STRANGERS GERIS LAP LAI Z SPINSTER RODE JN CROWDED ELEVATED TRAIN situation enjoyed by the other pas pa sense rs but decidedly distasteful to the principal fat mn man finally succumbs to fate the elevated train was chock full when n the very stout man got on at Thirty third street there room between platform and platform tor for a famine victim but the stout man like all stout men see how he could make any difference he stepped upon the platform buoman tuf mashing a messenger boy flat against tho the door and spreading a lemon faced little spinster all over the window like lam jam or butter at twenty eighth street halt half a dozen people got out instantly there was waa a rush for seats and standing room left inside the car but sisal alas when a fat man gets wedged lit in a dokmay doom ay who else can penetrate it again like all fat men tho the fat mao man was lucky and strange as it may appear he managed to gettone gelione of the seats beats re bently vacated when bo be had bad sat eat down the little spinster gathered herself together and found a go oot hold in front of him and the other some now passengers just taken on cro tied in n after her and packed themselves like sardines they were squeezed so BO tight that the spinster reached tor for a straps strap to keep from being pushed over on the tat fat mans head bead and shoulders but just as she made EL a grasp somebody else caught the only remaining strap the bell rang sharply and the train started w alth ith st a jerk jark the little spinster lost h her er breath and balance toppled tor for a mem moment ent on her toes and then sank struggling down upon the tat fat mans lap the fat man gasped and the spinster gave an awful cry of consternation and reached for the floor but there was no floora every eairy inch of space was covered by the feet of the determined passengers the moment she sat down they had bad spread out over her space then sho she blushed d some people ale looked her way and laughed but n nobody body moved she wedge edge h her e r knees down from the altitude they had assumed at the first lurch slie she continued to struggle and strain to reach a strap athile tha fat man sat helpless with that energetic mite mile of femininity going galal through the alu jitsu exercises on his knees at the next station more people got on and the fight ot of the lone spinster became more difficult and 0 i cerate flesh and blood even pounds strong could stand it no longer like a mountain rising and casting off the small cities on its surface the ponderous one rose and pushed the sardine like ilka passengers out ot of his magic circle the spinster slid off his knee like a drop of water oft a duck Il madam ladam said the tat fat man lifting his hat gravely will you do me the honor to VOW take my seat well ell its about time snapped the ruffled ruffied little spinster ungratefully J new york 6 press ess |