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Show , A Philadelphia Incident. ( The easy and comfortable attitudes assumed as-sumed hf most men riding in street cars have frequently been a source of irritation irrita-tion to women, and one feminine passenger pas-senger iiad the courage to publicly condemn con-demn the practice. A Sixteenth street car w as scudding up town with many mainline passengers and one woman, who sat in an upper corner and whose physiognomy stamped her as a school-ma'am. school-ma'am. Another woman entered the car at Poplar street, and finding no vacant seat was proceeding to grasp a strap when the voice of the schoohna am piped out, "If these men would put their legs to gether, there would be plenty of room!" A dead silence was followed bva stealthy shifting of nether limb3 until sufficient red cushion was visible to accommodate the standing passenger. Philadelphia |