Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1887 — Stingy Women. [ARTICLE]

Stingy Women.

There is no place which gives a better opportunity to study the difference of the sexes than a street car, said a conductor to a St. Louis Globe reporter. Take any party of gentlemen entering a car, every man will try to pay the fare for the whole crowd, but take the same number of women—did you ever see one of them offer to pay the fare for the party, or even for the shcond member of the party ? I never did, and I’ve been on the back platform for eight years. A woman when she is coming down town with a crowd always loads her pocket-book with nickels—she takes care to get the change at a corner grocery or drug store—and when the conductor gets round to her she plumps out her nickel, arid lets her neighbor do the same. She will even lend a friend a nickel sooner than pay her fare. I’ve seen them lend each other nickels time and time again, and sometimes, when they have no nickel, they will say to each other; “I’ll pay your fare going down; you pay mine coming back.” Nothing hath proved more fatal to that due preparation for another life than our unhappy mistake of the nature and end of this.— Wake. Let us help the fallen still, though they never pay us, and let us lend without exacting the usurv of gratitude.