The day book. [volume], October 27, 1913, Image 21

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DAILY COMMENT ON
We can hardly pound out this com
ment. We had to hang on a strap
all the way down on the street car
this morning and our arm is full of
aches. .
But we have lots of company in the
aches. Every strap in the car we
were in was straining itself to hold
somebody up. '
There' is a"great injustice done the
street car companies by -the people
who compare a packed streetcar to a
can 'of sardines? Sardines are not
given a strap to hang on to. -
According to the new ruling of the
London Health department, babies in
that city are not allowed to be rocked.
Whoops, meh deah! Let's all move
over to London. ' Biit it don't say
anything about walking- the . floor
and that's where Dad shines. "
Pullman porters, have formed a
union; Want bigger tips from pas
sengers or more pay from the com
panies. " - 4
Which will you bet they get?
That's just what we think. The pub
lic is a dern sight more generous than
the railroads. , -
So the "L" roads are -going to try
out the through-routing plan next
Monday. "Everybody stand up and
sing that century-old' ballad, "We
Have Waked, Honey, Waited, Long
for You.". -
A Philadelphia worpan,was arrest
ed for mowing her lawn at midnight.
Thought It' 'would 'ak.e more' than
that to wake Philadelphians.up.
It has, Been -suggested down East
that Hallowe'en be made an occasion
for giving presents. Our opinion is
KxPX ZzZ RrnT and then some!
Wow!, And that reminds us of
Christmas! -
, Vice-President Marshall can't get
us all heated up by 'his threat to buy
a motorcycle until betellsrus-who is
going to ride on' behifld?&s.ri,'V
They've diagnosed a' Cleveland
cigar a"nd found in itropeVtiayV'string,
sawdustndan aroma of -tobacco.
PEOPLE AND THINGS
Just think of that! AH wd pay foe
is tobacco, and we get all those, other
things thrown in. i .
The next .time we smoke' a Cleve
land cigar we'll smoke a pipe
Cleveland girls say too many wast
ed kisses lessen chances of marriage.
-Might-give 'im just one, girls, .and
then he'd want more and pop the
question. . -
Anyone- who- has had a hard bed
to lie upon can sympathize with the
New Jersey workman -.who fell into
a bed of mortar and stuck in Jhe
rapidly hardening stuff until he. was
chiseled out.
We've known of people who' slept
in a feather bed, but still pretty near
had to be chiselednput to get them up
in the morning. 7
HOT ENOUGH
' ,
An old yet was relating hs experi
ences -of' -the Givil-War. He said he
was once -taken prisoner, and his
captors stripjjed him of all his cloth
ing. - '-- - - .'
"Did you feel the colcrmuchr" ask
ed a "pal.
"No," replied the-veteran, "not at
all.. yott,see, they-carefully-4iovered
me with their rifles'
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Beets help to make-the heattclean.