CROWDED TRAMS

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 137, 10 June 1918, Page 8

CROWDED TRAMS

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —"Looker.On" appears to be very much upset by the presence of women and children in the trams when he wants to go home. I should judge that he was not a married man by the way he writes. On fcho other hand he may be one of those model husbands who do all the shopping, etc., for theiT wives, so that there is no necessity for them to go out at all. Now-a-days the majority of women cannot either afford help at home nor get help if they could; therefore it takes them all their time to do the housework, get the meals, attend to their children, and sew for them. It is only after dinner when the children have gone back to school that a woman can find a couple of hours occasionally to go out and do her shopping, and. it is a matter of impossibility to> be always home before the 4.30 p.m. tram, when "Looker-On" is ready to go home. I have gone on the trams from 3 p.m. upwards, and mostly all are packed in the same way. For health and comfort's sake I should much prefer to walk were it not for the distance. Does

"Looker-On" suggest that women are not workers? Why more than half the women and girls on the trams after that hour aro from school and work. I have proved it is principally the girls and younger women who give up their seats to mothers and babies and ekTexly people, not the men. I consider that women with families are harder-worked than the working-man who expects a well-earned rest at 4.50 p.m., for women's work is never done. As for this term "frying-pan brigade," it is ridiculous, for any managing woman can have her dinner all arranged and partially cooked, if necessary, before she goes out, without ever looking at a frying pan. Possibly "Looker-On" had a few of his friends among "these particular women" that are always on his car, and being afraid to mention his grievances to them he wrote to the paper instead.—l am, ANOTHER LOOKER-ON. TO IBS EDITOR. Sir, —In reply to "Looker-On's" letter, I would suggest that trams should have a board on the side of the tram, "For Workmen Only," during the hours from 4.30 till 6.30, and arrangements could be. made for one or two cars in between those hours for the women and the push j car, etc. Just imagines man rushing home t« Brooklyn from 5 till 6, andl having to get back to work, and the car on the stop alii the time to pick up and drop women and their children. Tt. would be ii great blessing to men if the women showed a little more courtesy, the. same as the men show to them, by allowing the children to stand up.—l am, etc., COURTESY.