Passengers will please refrain<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom flushing toilets while the train<\/p>\n
Is in the station. Darling, I love you!<\/p>\n
We encourage constipation<\/p>\n
While the train is in the station<\/p>\n
Moonlight always makes me think of you.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
If you wish to pass some water<\/strong>,<\/p>\nkindly call the pullman porter,<\/p>\n
He’ll place a vessel in the vestibule.<\/p>\n
If the porter isn’t here,<\/p>\n
Try the platform in the rear \u2014<\/p>\n
The one in front is likely to be full.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
If the woman’s room be taken<\/strong>,<\/p>\nNever feel the least forsaken,<\/p>\n
Never show a sign of sad defeat.<\/p>\n
Try the men’s room in the hall,<\/p>\n
And if some man has had the call,<\/p>\n
He’ll courteously relinquish you his seat.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
If these efforts all are vain,<\/strong><\/p>\nThen simply break a window pane \u2014<\/p>\n
This novel method used by very few.<\/p>\n
We go strolling through the park<\/p>\n
Goosing statues in the dark,<\/p>\n
If Sherman’s horse can take it, why can’t you?<\/p>\n
\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/strong><\/p>\nAmen<\/strong>, but can you safely goose a horse, let alone a statue of one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Czech composer Antonin Dvorak (right) in 1894 wrote his eight light-hearted humoresques, the best known of which is Humoresque G flat No. 7. You’ll recognize it the minute you hear it. The short composition, in turn, led to some unlikely associations six decades later. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 As it happens, toilets on most trains traditionally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1152,1],"tags":[1568,1571,1569,1570],"class_list":["post-39275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-the-arts","category-uncategorized","tag-antonin-dvorak","tag-humorsque","tag-oscar-brand","tag-toilets-on-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39275"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39299,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39275\/revisions\/39299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\u00a0Before then, railroad companies <\/strong>were more concerned with toilet waste landing in train stations during stops. In the 1950s, all this inspired a Canadian-American folksinger\/songwriter, Oscar Brand (1920-2016), to write a