Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1915 — MADE THEM AU. STAND UP [ARTICLE]

MADE THEM AU. STAND UP

Particular Appeal That Induced Male Passengers to Yield Their Seats to Woman With Mission. For once youth and good looks were nowhere. Middle age was triumphant. The victor was hatless and she carried a large market basket The car was so crowded that she had difficulty in pushing In with her basket but she finally managed it. Moreover, she found space to balance it on the back of a seat Then she looked out at the station clock. That gave her a fright. “Half-past five, she said. "Good gracious! And I’ve got to have Jim’s supper ready at 6:30.” One corner of the basket was partitioned off into a little nest, and into that nest she tossed her green beans as she strung them. Before half a dozen beans had left her fingers every man within seeing and hearing distance was on his feet begging her to take his place. Well-dressed men, shabby men, were for the moment on a level. To them it mattered not in the least that good looks had to stand, but that a woman who wished to have her husband’s supper ready on time should have to stand in a car while preparing a port of it was unthinkable.