The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-09
TRANSPARENT AS MUD.
The Simplicity Of the House-Num-
bering System.
As Portrayed by q CIear-headed
Female to One Less Bril-.
liant Of Brain.

III vogue III tuiS CITY seems to be
"staggerer" to the comprehensive,
of the gentler sex, and it is rare tina
one can be found who processes t,
know anything at all about it
| There is something about that anC
the free delivery that excites her
and she prefers to let the subjecr
severely alone. She can usually
get started all right. but as soon a:
she comes to a street or has to turn
a corner, she gets ratified and want.
to quit.
or course, the reason for this i.
simply because she has lot inyestig.
ated the subject. Far be it from us
to depreciate the intelligence of wo.
man! We have had too much ex>
perlence on that point, and besides.
the question of her equality has
been settled in all the female con-
vent1ons of our common country
That have been held for years.
SILL, we repeat, there are few of
the .gFntler ones who pretend to
know much about house numbering
Occasionally one meets with q robust
exception who know all about il
and such one will suffer the AN
guIsh or the doomed till she NEE
a yielding sister to whom she can
unlock the food gates of her in
formation.
a HERALD reporter was sitting In
the left hand corner of a Pwes tieth
ward street car the other evening at
sunset, gazing thoughtfully out
into the lurid depths of the "beau-
tlfui phenomenon" when two
stylishly dressed ladies from the
Eighteenth ward entered the car
and sat down in his immediate
vicinity.
The car had barely left East Tenn
pie street when the attention of one
OF the ladies-the Trailer of the
tWo-was attracted by q man across
inc street who carried in his hand |
handsome nickel-plated number,
EVIDENTLY destined to adorn the
front door of his dwelling.
w nat horrible thing this house
numbering is" she said, at length
Il can't get head or tail to it,"
cant you?" rejoined the other.
WITH shrill rising infection on the
can't and a mellow double circum-I
lex on the you. "Why it's thej.
simplest thing in the world when 1
you understand it. NV husband ex.
pIaine9 IL to me a long while ago
and ITS just too easy for anything"
wen, I'm glad some one under
stands it, for I've tried to eyer so
many times and somehow I lust
can't. There are so many people
who have tie same number. I'll
should think they'd get them avs
uiIy mixed. Do they number clear
'ound each block and then take 4
mother and so on, or how is it?" s
ooh, bless you, no." replied the \
with the information.
They don't go round the block at
III. Tney keep on one side of the
treet till they get to the bottom =
no then they come up the other :
lde. John says whenever a new p
ouse is built they just put that in J
nd number it exactly the same i,
7ay. OH it's very. simple: lust as pt
asy as can be. Don't you see 2" B
The mist of ignorance that had J
reViously enveloped the fragile wo> =
Ian seemed to be lifting now. and T:
er eyes lit up with a glimmering of ~ y
abstraction as she put the further -
lquiry: q
well, what do some of the num- n
ers have that little letter on for . A
think that's the hardest to under J
and."
oh! that's easy enough. John
dn't tell me about that, but SUM-
3Se us their monogram. You see I
s SO much nicer to have your q
onogram on the door instead of q
'ur Whole name. 1 despise to see r.
cry DIT OF mans name on his Ia
ont door, don't you? I think it
oks so soft. But a nice little mono
am put right after the number.
eres something so neat and nice g
out that, don't you think SOP" co
Inc l!Ctle woman was becoming q
eply interested, but there still u
rKed a doubt. When that was ex-,oa
aimed she seemed to say she would a
master OF the situation. Again 40
e asked. W
How are the ones that are going M
carry the letters to tell which v.
use to go to, when there are so Ips
any with the same number ?" o.
For a moment the wise woman
ltered, and our reporter thought
e was cornered, but finally She
'Oh! they'll find the right house. II
!. Lynch will tell them. That's
business, you know. He will
We to look over the mail and hand
to these others and tell them
lere to take it. They can't miss Id
because, don't you see, all the tel
eets are numbered one. two. da
zee up to ever so many, this way' In
d up IN the Twentieth ward thew Viz
all named after the a, B, Cs ser
d so on. For instance, if thew an
'nted to find our house, it would an
number five hundred and some- ths
ng, on such and such street and ms
N, if you lived three blocks aWay agi
I'D be numbered three hundred slo
l something, because John wa
s there ale always a hun PEI