What Do You Think the Porter Did?
A lady in the centre seat of the parlor car heard the request of a fellow-passenger directly opposite asking the porter to open the window, and, scenting a draft, she immediately drew a cloak about her.
“Porter, if that window is opened,” she snapped testily, “I shall freeze to death.”
“And if the window is kept closed,” returned the other passenger, “I shall surely suffocate.”
The poor porter stood absolutely puzzled between the two fires.
“Say, boss,” he finally said to a commercial traveler seated near by, “what would you do?”
“Do?” echoed the traveler. “Why, man, that is a very simple matter; open the window and freeze one lady. Then close it and suffocate the other.”