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Show WHEN YOU KNOV HOW. It I Itlclit to I'm" llnckiTitril TVIien Jumping Off n Car. Woman, lovely womnn, is nbout to bo rehabilitated in tho estimation of tho world in an important mutter, says tho Washington I'oai. Ever sino railroads rail-roads have been built, over slnco street-cars have rolled through busy strects.tho cartoonist, the paragrapher, tho wits of the tiresido, tho end-man iu minstrels shows, nnd tho clowji in tho circus havo been depicting hor as ilo-fvlng ilo-fvlng tho laws of motion und gravitation gravita-tion iu getting off a moving car. Paroxysms of laughter hare boon evoked at descriptions of her manner of graspiug the rear rail, facing backward, back-ward, and stepping to tho ground with her face to tho past nnd her back to the future. The funny man has novcr ceased to gloat as ho recounted tho number of revolutions lovely woman completes bofjro sho recovers from the ofTects of her attempt nt resuming hor footing on solid earth from tho fleeting car. Aud man has always, lu tho proud consciousness of knowing just how It ought to bo dotio, faced frout, swung ahoaiL dropped off, and run for two blocks bofore ho could check his momentum. mo-mentum. Thou ho fans himself with his hat nnd spends ten minutes in n saloon drinking beer nnd congratulating himself him-self on tho timo he has saved by dropping drop-ping off tho cur while It is iu motion instead of having thu conductor stop to let him oil. Yet ho is wrong, nnd tho women have been right in theory nt least, though, bless 'em, they couldn't put it Iu practice for lots of rcasous. The patrons of tho cablo curs kuows how tho thing is dono. The next tlmu you ride on Sovonth street just notice how a conductor gets from tho grip-car to tho rear of tho open car. He don't walk back and ho doesn't swing off like tho ordinary run of masculine mortals. lie swings out on tho foot guard with his. faco to tho roar. Grasping tho brass rod with tho handnoxt the car, ho throws his body out nud forward, toward to-ward tho rear o'f the train and lets go. Ho lands lightly ou tho ball of his off foot. Tho momentum of tho cur throws him back, and ho re'eovors gracefully on tho near fooL which swings hack to afford tho needed support. sup-port. Thon when the roar car gets ulong ho swings ou again. It is very easy when you know how, but don't try It until you aro dead sure you can do it. |