SS. The manner in which a fool and his rich wife's money are
parted.

SYNONYM. A lazy man trying to win success and a hen trying to lay a
corner-stone.

SEAT. A mythical place in a street car where many are called but few are
chosen. For instance:

Little Jack Horner
Sat in a corner
Riding down town on the "L."
He jumped to his feet
Gave a lady his seat--
I'm a liar, but don't it sound well.

--Oliver Goldsmith, page 34.

SARDINE-CAR. A term of endearment given to crowded street cars.

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Marcus Aurelius thus describes the sardine-car in his "Meditations"--see
page 946--as follows:

The sardine-cars consist of fifty people trying to squeeze into a space
that was built only for a Pajama hat and two newspapers.

The seats in the sardine-cars run sideways; the passengers run edgeways,
and the life insurance agents run any old way when they see these cars
coming.

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The sardine-car is the best genteel imitation of a rough-house that has
ever been invented.

The are called "Sardine Cars" because the conductor has to let the
passengers out with a can-opener.

Brave and strong men climb into a street car and they are full of health
and life and vigor, but a few blocks up the road they fall out backwards
and inquire feebly for a sanitarium.

To ride on the street cars in a big city of an evening brings out all
that is in a man, including a lot of loud words he didn't know he had.

The last census shows us that the street cars in the city of New York
have more ways of producing nervous prostration and palpitation of the
brain to the square inch than the combined population of Amsterdam,
Rotterdam, Tinkersdam and Gotterdammerung.

To get in some of the street cars about six o'clock is a problem, and to
get out again is an assassination.

One evening I rode from Forty-second Street to Fifty-ninth without once
touching the floor with my feet.

Part of the time I used the outposts of a stout gentleman to come
between me and the ground, and during the rest of the occasion I hung on
to a strap and swung out wild and free, like the Japanese flag on a
windy day.

Some of our street cars lead a double life, because they are used all
winter to act the part of a refrigerator.

It is a cold day when we cannot find it colder in the street cars.

In Germany we find Germans in the cars, but in America we find germs.

That is beca