Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-02-02
MAIN STREET WINDOW.
siiRpsea Of Life ON Our Great Bustnesn
Thnruu9hfnr0.

Giinps.. Of Life ON Our Grrat Business
Thoroushfare.
A GLoBE-REPuBLIC man asked John
Foos: '.How is the Royal St John Sewing
Machine business opening olf, this season."
Quite as well rs we expected" responded
Mr.. Foos, and continued: 1.-THE prospect
is much better than il wss year ago
A new feature on our streets is the wagon
of the New Carlisle Creamery. from which
our citizens are 10 be supplied with a choice
article Of huttemilk, twice week. But
termilk a. beverage is said to be better
even than beer or bourbon, and safer! Such
thing as buttermilk debauch was never
known. unless there was whisky in IL.
Ii comforts one to look at the
piled-up loads Of coal that
traverse our streets. No doubt
the dealers intended to give their customers
honest weight but drivers were careless.
At any rate alrs well that ends well.
Once upon time, quite number OF
young newspaper men could be seen from
Our Main Street Window, who are now
fiourishing in other journalistic fields. One
of these Is Hamilton Busbey. of the Turf,
Field and Farm, of New York; another
is Quincy A. Petts, Of the Illustrated Me-
chanical News. New York; and we may
mention. also. Charles Richards Dodge,
editor Of the Outing at Boston; William II.
Busbey and Wright Busbey, Of the Inter
Ocean. Chicago: Mr.. Perkins, Of the Me-
chanical News. New York, and Rev. DIR.
Isaac Kay Funk, Of the Homiletic
Monthly, and the Voice. New York. And
Hon. J. r. Dodge. of the Agricultural Bu-
reau. and formerly of this city, is editorially
| connected with the New York Daily Tele-
graph. Gus c. Matthews, of the Current,
Chicago, was for a while resident of this
city. Springfield has certainly done Its
part toward furnishing editorial brain for
the country.
| Later advices authorize the GLoBE-RE-
| PUBLIC to add to this list Horace b. Hud-
son, for a. while resident here, who is now
on the local staff of that metropolitan daily.
the Minneapolis Tribune, and Hollis
c. Frantz, who recently left here to be-
come the editor of the Saturday Herald.
of North Manchester, Wabash county, Ind.
Frantz commenced his journalistic career
by printing an amateur paper, of small size.
when small boy living in the country, a
| few miles west of the city. The name OF
Harr Wagner. of San Francisco, should also
be added.
Mr.. Bluechips, president of the Aggres-
sive Poker club. passes Our Main Street
Window frequently. As to style, 1t may
be said that he is got up regardless.
Bluerhips is society man. He gets nine
! dollars a week for what he is pleased t.
call his services, and has great expectations
of ten in the distant future. He spends 81
week for board. So for cigars, 81 fol
drinks. and it will be cold day when he
gets a balance in the bank. Ther
Bluechips spends his evenings, well on to
ward morning, in cultivating the pokel
business. and is the next day in bad con-
dition for the prosecution Of business.
Bluechips Is not wise, and he Is likely to
make bad break one of these days.
Mrs. Silvertop often walks by Our Main
Street Window and stops to look at the
chromos of actresses and things. But there
| is occasionally wrinkle on her fair brow,
although it must be confessed there is none
in her neatly-fitting short wrap,
which greatly becomes her. The
wrinkle Is the result of her
graphing with an important seai iadnrufh~
She has su.~,s.s-n0ussa--AsVS -As VSsoS.3rp problem.
Tyssi mere twenty years, and har-
ing been in society to some extent. she has
been out to tea, high and low teas, dinners
and receptions. 4lS tunes. and she has been
able with a limited income cher husband
snt millionaire manufacturer or plumb
.r, or a printer to give only thirty parties.
She is therefore indebted to 2SS persons,
to her books. and she is about 43i
behind in her calls These she makes by
Ihe wholesale, and it is nuts" for her when
the beloved friend is out and she can
chuck card Under the door! Now what
shall Mrs. Silvertop do? Her invitations
gain on her at the rate of 20 to 80 year:
,he will never catch up. and will at last die
socially insolvent, if she doesn't burn her
books beforehand and go into
1t would seem that
friends who are really and truly
fond of each other, should not keep
ledger account, but go forward and back
ward when they felt like it.
A friend suggests to the Window that
the old Clark place, on Factory. south of
The bridge, would be good location for the
City Hospital. 1t would. The
grounds are ample and are well shaded
with fine old trees and the house could
easily be adapted to hospital purposes.