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Show t -.v v u xv K.jiiititj!i jx ft v, j yt yt yi 'J set me crazy the way they get off cars. Now, that one nearly got a fall by getting off backward, the way she did. If there had been the Vttlest bit of motion to this car wh . she stepped off with her face to the rear end she'd have gone kerthump down on the concrete. con-crete. Not one in a thousand women," wom-en," he continued, "ever alights from a street car right. Instead of taking hold of the handle bar on the upright I toward the front of the car, she grabs j the one back. If you don't believe it watch this push and see if I'm not telling you a true one." The reporter said he'd watch, and he did, not only on that car, but several others he rode on during the course of the day. He watched men and women alike. Out of sixty-seven women who alighted sixty-five of them got up when their corner cor-ner was reached and carefully selected the wrong handle bar to assist them in alighting. Out of 114 men none took other than the proper clutch contriv- ance. Seven of them, however, invited the foolkiller's attention. They jumped off while the car was speedin'g rapidly. Any Washingtonian can prove the truth of Conductor 9999's assertion by keeping eyes peeled when street car riding. THEY ALWAYSDOIT WRONG. Not One Woman in - TUousaud Know. How to Leave a Street Car. "Dern these women!" Thus ejaculated a Metropolitan street car conductor in the presence of a Washington Star reporter as he gave Shell rope a vicious double pull to signal the motorman to go ahead. A rSrter who knew him expressed - surprise at his ungallant remark. I iidn't mean anything aiespectful Mtld the far. taker, wearily, "but some-Umes some-Umes I har. to let loose. The wm |