Gunnison Gazette | 1909-04-30 | Page 5 | Courtesy in the Street Car

COURTESY IN THE STREET CAR. Something of a Reversal of the General Rule. "Do you suppose that's an effect of the recent agitation of women's rightE?" asked the man, Indicating with a nod of his head a - -one that was taking place in an "L" car In the homeward rush. His companion looked and saw a slender, handsomely gowned woman offer her seat to a young man who, In tne crush, was standing in front of her and was carrying car-rying an armful of large, heavy books. The young man looked rather embarrassed em-barrassed and bravely declined with :a, pleasant little smile, which was all he could accomplish in lieu of raising rais-ing his hat with his heavily incumbered incum-bered hands. "Well, then," said the lady composedly, com-posedly, resuming her sat, "let me hold the books In my lap." "That would certainly be kind. If you don't mind," consented the youth, relinquishing his load; and when the lady reached her station, leaving her seat to him, he thanked her for her thoughtfulness with fully as much gratitude as a woman would have expressed for a similar courtesy from man perhaps with more appreciation, apprecia-tion, the experience being more rare.