Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1886 — Different Kinds of Travelers. [ARTICLE]

Different Kinds of Travelers.

Have you noticed how some people enter a car and where they sit? A lady will walk past a dozen vacant seals, often the entire length of the car, then come back again and take one of the seats she has just passed, and often after she is seated change to another just exactly like the one she leaves; never exactly decided a( home or abaoatL The ©ld traveler walks direct to the best seat in. the, ear that is vacant, i, e.w the one nearest the center and on the shady side, not because it rides easier; but it is; safer in case of any accident. The o. fc. never passes a vacant seat, if the car is- any way nearly full. The small boy or his sister must get. next the window, and usually flattens his nose- against it if it is not open,, he I being on kis knees on the seat,. we mean the small boy on a small journey. If tbe trip lengthens out any he will get all over the car before he gets- tothe end: es the trip. The backwoodsman will take the first seat inside the door whether, the car is crowded or empty, and will put biS entire family on the one seat if he can squeeze them in between the arm of the seat and the window. If it’s down in Kentucky or Tennessee they will take off hats and bonnets and mate themselves at Lome. The colored brother or sister &o*a down South hunts a window before- he doe* a seat, raises the sash quickly, passes his body through to the waist, and to people he has told good-by he shouts again: “Goo’-by, gpo-’-bv. Give my love to Aint Mary. Goo-bye. You must write,” while the person yelled at is as innocent of writing as a babe. When the train is on its. way he sinks into a scat, the one where he is, as good as any ; he stays there, looks around with a smile of satisfaction, is glad he is alive, and gladder that he is “gwine on ihisyere, cyar,” and gladdest of all that the ear is supplied with icewater, a luxury that does not appear in his every-day life. When a colored people’s excursion is announced ice*, water is advertised as one of the attractions —Merchant Traveler.