MALE PROTECTORS OUITE SUPERFLUOUS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 2 May 1891, Page 4

MALE PROTECTORS OUITE SUPERFLUOUS.

( " The fact that American rl ? K° anywhere and almost everywhere vv.'thout escorts has long been a matter of woftu^n^nt to me," said a member of the French no^"ity /Jhe other day during a visit to New YOi'k- '".. I was coming down in an elevated trait* recently, when the reason was made evident to me. •■. As we neared a station almost every passenger made a rash for the door, and stood for some minutes, each anxious to* get ahead of the other in leaving the train. ," One of the crowd was a very pretty young woman, carrying a long-handled umbrelljl in one hand and a big bundle in the other. Just behind her was a short, very fat man, who was rudely crowding the pretty girl. As I had not left my seat I sasv ihe performance that followed. ». f '.'.Once the girl looked over her shoulder, and the fat man stopped crowding for a moment, but began again, and trod on the skift of the pretty girl. Her eyes grew dark with anger. The long-handled umbrella assumed a horizontal position, and shot backward, point first, catching the fat man just about at the bottom of his waistcoat. He gave a gasp of terror,; and caught his breath just as the pretty girl' looked over her shoulder, smiled sweetly, and said : — " Oh, pardon me ; but you are on my skirt.' " Then she smiled evenmore sweetly, and the fat man dropped into a seat and groped about as though the air in the car was suffocating him. The girl marched complacently out of the car head up, and the dainty feathers in her hat nodded defiance at all masculinA'humanity."