Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1881 — A Street-Car Scene. [ARTICLE]

A Street-Car Scene.

An amnsing incident occumfd on a street-car the other day. A woman of fifty, made up to look about twenty-five years old, got aboard at a crossing to find every seat occupied. She stood for a moment, and then selecting a poorlydressed man, about forty-five years of age, she observed: “Are there no gentlemen in this car?” “Indeed, I dunno,” he replied, as he looked up and down. “If there ain’t, and you are going clear through, I’ll hunt up one for you at the end of the line.” There was an embarrassing silence for a moment, and then a light broke in on him all of a sudden, and he arose aud said: “You can have this seat, madam. I am alius willing to stand up and give my seat to anybody older than myself. ” That decided her. She gave him a look which ha will not forget to his dying day, and, grabbing, the strap, she refused to sit down, even when five seats had become vacant.— New York Herald.