Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1901 — Not Explainable. [ARTICLE]

Not Explainable.

“There are a lot of things about women that can’t be explained, and In our business weoan t help noticing them,” said the communicative conductor. “Fpr instance, nine women out of ten will invariably take a seat on the right hand side of a car, if the ear is not crowded. I have often wondered at this, and at I think I have the correct solution. I started out with an empty car the other day, and in five minutes I had picked up seven women, and they all sat in a row on the right hand side of the ear. It was just the hour in the morning when the women come down town to do their shopping. Three men got on, and they sat on the left hand side. Further down I picked up another woman, and instead of taking a vacant seat near the door on the side the other women were sitting, as I thought she would, she walked the entire length of the car and sat down beside one of the men. This bit of eccentricity puzzled me until I went to collect her fare, and then I discovered that she was left-handed. See? All the other women were right-handed.”