People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — Politest Man in Washington. [ARTICLE]

Politest Man in Washington.

We must all do good in the world according to our natural endowments and the opportunities afforded us. The other day I was riding In a comfortably filled street car when there entered toree young women dressed in the ntjrow sheath skirts of the period. A jollv,portly old gentleman got up to give one of the pretty girls a seat, whicl she took with a gracious acknowledgi ment She seemed rather lost, how «-ver, 1.& the generous space vacated by thj Pickwickian frame of the old gentleman, so ste moved along far enough to let qne at her companions share the benefck Now, whether the passengers crowded together imperceptibly or ■vfrhatevur may have happened, the two slender juiung did not take up the whole seat, «u_d the third blushingly squeezed into what was left of it. By this time the oth,ar people in the cai were too much amused to conceal theii smiles, and the old himself was one vast glow of satisfaction. “It isn’t all of you who aw fitted to perform such a wholesale act of gallantry,” said he, in a low tone, to a friend in the corntlr of the car.—Rate Field’s Washington.