(No names but I thought amusing!) "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Monday, November 7, 1910 THERE'S A DIFFERENCE. How Car Conductor Tells Sex of Person Who Rings. A Prospect avenue car was nearing Tenth street on Walnut street, northbound, about 1 p.m. Friday. As it began to slow down for the stop, there being an intersecting line on Tenth, there were three long rings at the bell. "Bet that's a woman," remarked the conductor, who was riding with his back toward the car. "What makes you think so?" he was asked. "Because men never ring for one of these regular stops. Ninety-nine times out of 100 it is a woman. In the other one case it's some Rube from the country who would ring for the end of the line, anyway." By that time the car had come to a stop. One woman arose and left by the front exit. "You guessed right," the conductor was told. "I can do better than that," he went on. "As a general rule I can tell whether it was a man or woman who rang the bell, no matter where the stop may be." "What's the difference?" "On a car men generally are reading or talking with their neighbor. Anyway, they are a busy lot and do things quickly. A man will wait until the car is just approaching his street. Then you will hear one short rasp, sometimes two. Say a woman wants off at Tracy avenue, eastbound. The minute the car sticks its nose beyond Forest avenue she begins to manipulate that bell. We generally get three long, drawn-out sighs from her. And the Lord help the motorman if he carries her by. She will give one solid, continuous ring until the car stops and then she will give a 'piece of her mind' to either me or the motorman, whichever way she chances to get out. It makes no difference which gets it, as a woman feels that it is coming to you when she gets carried by." "What does a man do when carried by?" "Oh, a man may cuss a little, good-naturedly, say something about a slick rail or advise us to sand the track. But a man never feels so personally affronted as does a woman." ======================================================