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BSRBS 4UiyiifWi'Liip,ni4iliP,J!fiwt m DAILY COMMENT ON PEOPLE AND THINGS As a rule the richer a man is the fewer babies he raises. And the lessjie wants to pay in wages to men who- really keep the population increasing. Some of those Michigan miners have as many as twelve children, while about all the mine owners have is money. And their wives are so busy hav ing society parties that they can't find time to have babies. That consolidation of public utili ties ought to give the owners a chance to print a few milions more of watered stock. There's still plenty of water in the lake that isn't working. And it is dead easy to pump it Into bonds and stock, if you only know how. Just so you won't forget it, Willie the Hearst's special trades union edi tionof the Exam is due Sept. 29 provided it doesn't get lost in the shuffle. If it doesn't appear, then you can make up your mind the labor unions of Chicago gave Hearst the worst licking he ever got Come to think of it, mebbe those pig-sticking packers wore red hunt ing coats so they could look in the mirror and imagine they were reg ular gentlemen. As for real fox hunting, the chances are most of them were chicken fan ciers or turkey trotters. Something like that. Still, what's that got to do with the high price of beef-? Probably a whole lot. The packers need the money. Sam .Insull may be the whole cheese in the local street car situa tion, but all the same we don't like Sam's name. Insull just think of it. Isn't that a dickens of a name to pin onto a man? But it would be worse than that if that last 1 were a t. By the way, what's become of An dy Lawrence? Anybody seen Andy lately? ;. And we also miss a few other prominent citizens. For example, there are the Barrett brothers and Max Annenberg. We. don't notice their names in the society columns either. Business must be dull. In the meantime street railway service is still rotten, thank you, and they're packing 'em in in the same old way. It would be easy enough to get bet ter service with the faculties we have if anybody in authority really wanted to force it. But the tighter the company can pack the straphangers in the bigger the dividends. So why run.more cars? By the way, service would be much faster if some way could be arranged to keep trucks and wagons out of the tracks', except when they had to get in them to pass standing teams. We .might pass a law making may ors and councilmen ride on street cars so they would know what the rest of us have to put up with. A good way to stop those politi cians on the school board from both ering Ella Flagg Young would be to kick 'eni off the board. Nevertheless the change-your-underwear season is fast approach ing. Also the world's series. But Chi cago won't be in it this year. The Cubs fooled away too much time on the start. It is not rumored, however, that one Cholly Murphy lost money this year. So he'll have new fall clothes. And a 1914 buzz walgon. And in due course of time no doubt Comiskey will be a grandfather. How time does fly. Yes, indeed. Why actually, Christ mas is coming. Or Xmas. As you please. We spell it both ways. It costs just the same. Chicago modiste has designed a mBAmmtmmammm