The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-19

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N THE DINING Can.
Chicago has several distinct advan-
tages over New York which strike
traveller at once. One Of them is the
rapidity with which one gets his bag
gage in Chicago. When you land in
New York or approach the city well
informed and talented gentleman carry
ing large mass Of echoing brasses on
big wire key ring goes through your
train with little memorandum book
and agrees to transfer your luggage to
your home or hotel before you can pos
sibly get there yourself.
You have rashly agreed to get mar
ried on your arrival, perhaps, or you
may have accepted an invitation to be
present at large dinner where you will
make few spontaneous, typewriter re-
marks. So when this able and thor
oughly well informed baggage checker
man takes your check and your address
you heave sigh Of relief and begin to
drink in the picturesque beauties Of
Elizabeth and Jersey City, those beauti-
full abodes of wealth and beauty, and
with JOY You sniff the rich aroma from
the bone works along your route. You
feel assured that when You get to your
inn or your chocolate colored fiat in One
Hundred and Thirty-ninth street your
trunk will be on the stoop with glad
welcome and one hinge waiting for you.
But after several bitter experiences in
this way you finally give it up and yield
to despair. do not know how many
happy weddings have been broken oft
by the Express and Transfer and General
Mephistophelesa association, of New York,
or how many impromptu speeches have
died in the bosom of the typewriter be-
cause of this great incorporated disap-
pointment company.
Once I got my trunk on time. but my
wife did not. We were to go together
somewhere, for we were not then posted
regarding New York customs. So we
were to 60 together. 1t was an evening
affair, and it was full dress. wanted
to wear my full dress, for ] had a nice
new suit with embroidery down the side
of the leg. It was my first effort in
evening dress and was perishing to try
it, but my wife said nay. 1t would b'
very rude and de trop to wear evening
togs when she appeared in street dress
So / relented and went in short coat
with hectic necktie and mingled with
those who were clad in the seyeresl
evening dress throughout. No one knows
how many hearts have bled over these
sickening delays and disappointnients
remained month in New York al
that time hoping for another invitatio,
which would necessitate evening toilet
but no one asked me out.
In Chicago the railways come allnos
into the center of the city on the north
west and south, and when You have
bathed your features, and looked under
the bed for q burglar, and rummagee
| the drawers of the dressing case tor for
gotten hosiery and the bric-a-brac OF lie
parted guests, the porter knocks softl.
| at your door and wheels in on q rubbe
tired truck your welcome trunk. 1t is
very great comfort and delight.
Last week met q anaG on the trail
who got even with me in y way de
spise. He had been my guest once u
home for a week, and / certainly trie'
to make it pleasant for him during tina
time. He remained ut the house a
much the proprietor rs ! was. He 90
up when he felt like it in the ,assains
and his breakfast was ready for him
We saved out the tender corner Of tn
eteak for him, and though we didn't a
ways lsks to do it, we refused the secon
joint Of the fowl because we knew h
liked it and his nerves wNTe re. quit
strong, being sort OF a genius-t1,s ki1
of genius that does not think 1t has I
BE- responsible; the kind of intellectns
child woA4ser that ignores the dull IL
tail of receipted bills and just equivi
lent to people who have no genius.
| You have seen such a genius. II "a
lists in every profession. He is the kin
Of man who walks over the prostrat
bodies Of his friends and regards h
wife as a misguided being who has bee
mercifully permitted to stand aroun
and admire him and reach up under b
vest for 4 stray suspender that he Cal
not get hold Of. He does not hold hin
self amenable to the laws which Cover
other people. Being genits. ,s tax
thsas pieces Of pie and then expects d
family ts ~ NJ all night and hold b
head for him.
i He is the horror Of ksa.,,t;aa.s men, til
kste noir Of commonplace people. /.
has bsep spoiled by little notice ip tn
| paper, and should be bedded down ever
! night with barley straw and fed on Cor
In the ear. Genius is good thing, SO
! am told, and l do not despise 1t mysel
but when it is made to take the place {
; common decency and snaps its fingers ;
friendship, would rather not see an
signs of it in my children.
! This man was one whose work | la
, admired. could not see how his hea
| could be otherwise than pure and III
D selfish. His words had called up tt
tenderness which is common in Il
hearts of all, even in the coarse natu
Of the funny man. read his beautif
lines, and l said to myself: Here is o,
! whose soul is all aglow with divine SUI
> shine. He lives in a perpetual India
, summer of gladness, and the birds Al
I the angels love to associate with him. !"
His soul was all aglow with sunshil
when things went his way, but whe
+ they did not it Mas aglow with red
. Election from the great coke Ssrks whe
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