Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1887 — Women Who Hold Back. [ARTICLE]

Women Who Hold Back.

“Women not hold out on us ? That’s •where you are mistaken. The women are the worst in the lot. And when a woman starts to hold back on you”— it was a street-car conductor talking—“you might as well give in. There’s no doing anything with her. The women look so innocent, you know, and put on such an injured air if you try to make believe they haven’t paid their fare that a fellow gets ashamed of himself and just lays down right then and there. I couldn’t quarrel with a woman, and when a woman te Is me she has paid her fare, and looks up into my face so steadily, I can’t tell her she’s another and threaten to put her off the car. Lots of ’em’s up the trick, too, and almost every trip we lose a fare or two that way. We can jump into the fellows and make them pay when we’re dead sure they’re lying, but it’s different with a woman, and the woman knows it just as well as we do. Any woman with nerve can beat the street-car company about a quarter of the time, ’cause the boys ain’t going to make brutes of themselves for $2 a day.”