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Show WOMAN AND THF STREETCAR. Numbers of men of keen intellect have noted a peculiar and mysterious lack of understanding between be-tween women and the street car. They cite such instances as this: Three women are on a car, two on one side, and one on the other. All want to gei off at the same corner. One of those sitting together to-gether presses the hell. The other waits somewhat some-what impatiently until No. 1 takes her thumb off : then she rings, for she, too, wants to alight. The woman opposite, having watched this performance, then rings for herself, that she may be set down at this corner also. When the cutting winds and drifting snows of winter fill the streets, woman invariably leaves the door of the car open upon going out, Yet she would quit no other compartment . in the world without closing the door behind her. And it is because be-cause there is no basis of understanding with the street car that two women of otherwise good manners man-ners will so dispose themselves as to take up the room of four, while other passengers stand. Not one woman in a hundred has the slightest j idea of the safe and sane manner of getting off a I car. They invariably step off backward, and with the wrong foot. Everybody has seen well dressed and dignified dames, -with intelligence enough to handle the displomatic relations of this nation at the court of St. James, step off barely moving cars and tumble themselves most inelegantly about the street. These things never happen to the stupidest man. in the world. The women who do them might giv1 their husbands cards and spades in playing nine-tenths nine-tenths of the games of life. But there is something about the mysteries of the street car that the feminine femi-nine intelligence cannot master. It may be related to the problem of understanding woman, which has so long baffled man. Woman sees no reason why she should remain a mystery to the opposite sex. It is simply the inability of an otherwise intelligent creature to understand her. And as lfeither of these thing? can be taught, the wherefore of them will worry our children's children as they worry us Washington Post. , j |