Streetcar Manners.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 220, 16 September 1893, Page 1 (Supplement)

Streetcar Manners.

The builders of streetcars allow for eleven eata on each side. This was the allotment when tho cars were first introduced. Since thab bime bho average aroa of the citizen has materially increased in person—both women and men are larger. The chanceintroduction of young peoplo aud children still permits eleven people on a side, bub wibh a full complement of passengers Nos. 11 and 22 musb stand. The increase of girbh on bho part of Now Yorkera in limit.ing bhe accommodations of the car obliges frequently somebody to yield what waa once considered the right to a seat. Nino ordinary passengers and one fat man or woman require a readjustment of the car, jusb as ton slim women and a child will admit another slim passenger. These aro matters thab a judical-minded person will always take into accounb. The judical mind, bowover, is nob always baken aboard and odd combinations of passengers often throw the entire car into a sbate of mind in the effort bo adjusb them by main sbrengbh or strategy.

The other day bhere was a mixed lob of persons on one sido thab lefb a space enough to be tempting, bub nob largo enough to accommodate a woman extended unreasonably beyond her natural proportions by a thick gown and a long full cloak. The woman seated was slim, with a mild face and reserved manner. The woman standing looked at tho space and seated herself, obscuring the smaller woman, who was plainly supporting part of tho burden. ' If you will allow mo I will givo you the place,' the crushed woman said. She rose, when the other nodded triumphantly to a friend.

'I often get a seat bhat way,' enjoying hor success.

The mild-faced woman gavo no sign, then said :

' Will you kindly leb me sco if I lefb a parcel on bhe seat?'

The stout woman gob up and bhe libble woman quietly reseated heraolf. The sboub woman stood and the passengers laughed. —'New York Sun.'