HER LESSON IN POLITENESS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 638, 28 January 1914, Page 7

HER LESSON IN POLITENESS.

The other day an elderly woman went up to the driver of a train at a suburban station and asked him to detain the train for live minutes. She said that her daughter wanted to take the train to town. The driver told her that it was impossible for him to detain the tra'm for her. "1 don't see why," she expostulated. '"I think you might do a little thing like that." He tried to explain to her that trains run on schedule time, 'and, like time and tide, wait for no man, or woman, either,, for that matter. But she wouldn't have it, and finally just as they were about to start, she shouted indignantly : "Well. I'll see about that." The driver laughed, but soon ceased to laugh, for what did the old woman do but get right on the line about three feet in front of the engine. She sat there, firmly grasping the rail-3 with both hands. The guard signalled for the driver to go ahead, as their stop was over. But he couldn't do it as long as she remained on the line, for she would be k'illed. He called to the guard, and he, impatient at the dr.'.ay, came up. He was as mad as the driver was, and, going up to the old woman he told her to get oil the line. "I just won't," she replied, '"until my daughter gets into your train." Ha pleaded with her for some time, and finally declared that he would have to use force. 'Just you dare !" she cried. I'll sue you for damages if you do." This opened a new complication., and the two reasoned with themselves whether they had better remove her by force. Just as they had determined upon a course of policy her daughter came up, and seeing the old woman on the line, kissed her good-bye and got in the train, while her mother called to' her. "Go ahead, Mary Ann. You have plenty of time though,, for I will sit on the line till you get in." And then, when Mary Ann was safely in the train and the driver was ready to run over the old lady if necessary, she calmly and slowly got up and w a ved him a good-bye, calling, as the train pulled out of the station : "I hope I've teached you fellows a lesson in politeness."