Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1910 — Really No Puzzle at All. [ARTICLE]

Really No Puzzle at All.

“It makes us tired.’ wrote the edito; of the Hickory Ridge Missourian “wheu we see some city newspaper wondering why It la that a woman al ways gets oft a street car the wrong way. There ain’t any mystery abou? tt at all. Our wife explained it to u» years ago, and she never rode on t street car but once in her life, whet ahe was visiting City. ▲ woman gets off a street car backward because she naturally gratf her skirts with her left hand. Thats constitutional with a woman. TheV she has to grab something with her right hand to hold on to, and that! the railing at the rear end of the car, so when she steps off she has to fact •he wrong way. You can’t break >omen of that habit unless you makt them get oft on the left side of th« street car. and If you did that it’s Just as likely os not they’d be contrary enough to grab their skirts with their right hands. But there ain’t nothing otrange about the way they get od now. Blamed If we don’t think some times that some of the stupidest men In the world are working on the big city papers.”—Chicago Tribune.