Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1913 — LITTLE WORRIES IN ENGLAND [ARTICLE]

LITTLE WORRIES IN ENGLAND

Ladies Demand Separate Compartments on Trains, and Then Re- • fuse to Use Them.

They are having a little difficulty ons English railroads. Some few years agoa number of indignant spinsters said that it was a foul outrage that women should be required to travel in the; same compartments with men, and although the railroad officials knew 1 well that nothing short of a staff of! police could compel women to travel! anywhere else, they acceeded to the; demand and attached the “ladiesi only” label to the requisite number of compartments. But now comes a new complication, and this time tilecomplaint is from the men. Traffic has increased enormously, the trains' are crowded, and the straphanger has become an institution. But why, ask, the men, should we hang to straps,, why should we be packed like herrings in a barrel, while the compartments reserved for women are practically empty? For that is the fact. The women will not travel in the compartments reserved for them. They would rather form a part of the perspiring multitude in the general compartment than usq the accommodation that has been especially reserved for them. Now If a man ventlirfifi tfl ln.ifa4ft a -f>TVITT” IMHII ■- AaiSSeF *■* ■ fAC? tS t/uxj vR/Ui partment he is speedily reminded of his transgression by the stern hand of authority. But the woman may Invade the smoker, and does invade It, and has even been known to demand the extinction of all pipes anti cigars. , An experienced conductor, whoso name is wisely concealed, says that women like to avoid “the. frigid silence of a ‘ladies only’ compartment, where the window is adjusted according to the scowls of the occupants,’* for the pleasanter company to be found among men. “Women enjoy playing the part of a listener to the conversation in a men's or mixed compartment, and their vanity is gratified by the little courtesies that are paid to them.”