SEX, NOT COLOR, THAT COUNTS

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 379, 13 August 1903, Page 6

SEX, NOT COLOR, THAT COUNTS

a. flowtkem** U •»*»«lr §wrp»te«d %T »*» S«»«»m»« of 7T«w Tort PoUlniw Ik IPvblle. "Well, suh," said a souOern visitor in New York, reports the Sun, "I haTe always stood up for my section when it coidh to politeness, but I saw something in on* of the kyars of an eleTated : train in New York that knocks the spots off of our boasted, high-bred gen- • tie men. The kyar was comfortably filled; every seat was taken, when in i steps a couple of cullud citizems. 1 j reckon I'll have to say cullud in New York. : One -of the citizen* was a wornI an. Her man was with her. They were ' dressed rutha neat, I allow* i "Ther* was a very stylishly dressed i young man, Caucassian race, next to ! me, reading his pap ah. The cullud '. woman Teaehed up to grab a strap. Just then, suh, my Caucasian friend in hie stylish get-up arose and tippin' his hat to the cullud woman, says: 'Have mv seat.' And doggone if she didn't : take it, jest as though she was in the i habit ot havin' white men give her a iseat. "At fust blush I wanted to. hit that . Caucasian, it made me that mad. You i nevah would see a white man in the ; south give his seat to a niggah. And i you nevah would see a niggah take a j spnt from a white man. But this heah i New Yawk politeness seems to drew no line. I contest to you, iuh, I wouldn't a-done what that New Yawk man done; no, cuh. At the same time X allow that it Was the genuine article. X reekon, thouffe, it's mighty sca'ce." The Animu*.—Mr*. Goißtpp*—"How doe* it torn* Mrs. fwagger invited you to her party? I thought you mn smeimiev." Mrs. Snappem— ,r W« »r*t but aae thought I had nothing* fit to mar. wad wanted to mak« m» i—l bad.**—-Columbus St«*t* Journal. . ♦