Show ONE OF WOMANS WAYS Her Great Act of Crossluffa Railway Rail-way Trade Pictured With a Feu Did you ever notice how woman crosses i a railway track She pproaches with great caution skirts in hand and looks anxiously I up and down to see if any trains are approaching I 1 ap-proaching She is quite deliberate and thorough in this look If there is no train insight she usually goes so slow that one I comes along before she has satisfied herself Then she falls hack from the track about twenty feet and waits five minutes until the Nor does train come up and whizzes by she step immediately upon the track She is not so reckless Well does she know that the train that has just passed is likely to stop suddenly and run backward She waits until the danger is over and then if no other trains are in sight ventures to start I Suddenly behind a freight car she espies a I switch engine standing still With a stifled shriek she suddenly retraces her I steps By this time she is nervous Her J eves roll from side to side and her hand 1 trembles so violently as to shake the mud off i the skirts of her dress No woman crosses a railroad track without getting nervous She wouldnt be happy if she did But she I summons up enough courage to make another an-other effort Bending herself in the shake of a letter C she makes a dive She safely passes one track and then another and a I third then she breathes a little easier and j ventures to curb her pace and turn her head There on the second track which she has I crossed au engine is pushing some freight cars toward the crossing She forgets that I I she has crossed that track and again retraces i re-traces her steps She is now thoroughly I excited and doesnt know which way she is I going She cant tell whether she has j I crossed that track or not She stands bewildered I i be-wildered At this juncture a tall and handsome hand-some policeman approaches and gallantly t escorts her across the iron way She overhears j over-hears the flagman remarking that the i I foine lady has got across at last Time policeman tips his helmet as she thanks him and then she goes home and tells 1 I the folks what a narrow escape she had i in getting over the railroad Chicago I I Herald |