Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1884 — The H. 0. G. [ARTICLE]

The H. 0. G.

“Why does this railroad traveler occupy two whole seats?” “Because he paid for only one. He wouldn’t think of paying for four rooms at a hotel in order to sleep in one bed, but it’s a different thing on a railroad car.” “Will some yeoman come along and give him his choice between contracting his limits and takinga scoot through the windo.v?” “Oh, no. Every yeoman has a whole seat to himself, and is satisfied.” “But he would give up one of the seats to a woman, wouldn’t he ?” * “If she was good-looking and welldressed he would get his hoofs off that other seat so fast that his back would ache for an hour. If she was middleaged, only fairly dressed and had the look of a woman who wouldn’t gulp down any taffy, he’d be sound asleep as she came down the aisle.— M. Quad.