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Show I WOMEN WHO LIKE TO STAND I t Street Car Conductor Says Tlioy Do It to Keep Tholr Clothes j Unwrlnkled. j ,.f, ' Dy tho tlmo the car reached For. tloth street thcro wero no fowor than ' a dozen vacant scats, but tho girl In tho now tallor-mado gown refused to avail herself of their hospitality, relates re-lates tho New York Press. Tho messenger mes-senger boy polntod them out to her. So did tho woman In bluo and tho man with the rod beard, but to all Invitations Invita-tions to niako herself comfortabto the tailored girl said: "No, I thank you. I got off soon," and continued to lurch backward and forward In tho middle of tho car. The conductor watched hor grimly. "I could havo told those folks It was ' no uso to try to make that girl sit down," ho said to n passenger on tho platform. "She never does. I used to try to get hor to rest herself for a minute or two, just for a change, but I never could do It. Sho has been rid Ing In my car pretty regularly for about a year, and no matter whether tho passengers aro many or fow seldom sel-dom have I scon her sit down. I used to wonder why sho chose to stand up nnd flop around that way, but I havo come to tho conclusion that sho does It bocause her clothes lit so woll. "I havo seen lots of other peoplo with tho same trick. When I find n woman who Insists upon standing In a car where thoro aro vacant seats, I , look at hor clothes, anil It turns out, nlno times in ten that sho has a good i flguro nnd a dross that wouldn't show a wrlnklo under a microscope" |