Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-11-08

Whenever l come TO New York, even
for few weeks, like to fall into the
hands of an cid New Yorker whe knows
the ropes, for IL gives me feeling OF
comfort and confidence which nothing
else can. Day before yesterday | started
TO 90 up town with an old resident OF
the city, and as we went up the elevated
railroad stairs told him how glad was
to be as often as possible in the hands OF
an old citizen of the place, for then l
did not have to worry over details.
Eyes" he said, lit must be great
deal of comfort to one who has not al
ways lived in the city to be with one
who is perfectly familiar with New
York. as nothing but time and years can
make one. Now, for instance, the man
from the west or from the country may
flatter himself that he is entirely At
home here after week or two, and be-
gin to take it easy. That is the time he
corks himself, and the first thing he does
when he experiences this feeling OF false
security is to climb the elevated stairs
humming Comrades" softly to himself,
only to find when he gets here to the
ticket office as we are that he has come
IN those tedious iron stairs on hot day
ONLY TO know after he has bis ticket that
he is on the down town side when ne
wants to 90 up, or Uic6 UGrsd. III IS
mighty humiliating and makes him look
pretty foolish, ! think. And so-by
thpnderl that's Just what we have done
now! If you'll agree not to say any
thing about this l will pay for the
lunch"
SoIwill not say anything about it.
Last evening ] visited Central park
for a stroll along its quiet walks in order
10 rehearse q spontaneous after dinner
speech for the Lambs club and also to
commune with nature and the child won
der, the baby hippopotamus. L am very
fond OF wild beasts born in captivity,
and often spend hours in front OF their
cages contemplating their singular hab-
it's.
The baby hippopotamus is, | may safe
" say, as plain as Senator PETER, OF
Kansas, the hirsute wonder OF the bound
less Mains. She has loosely fitting
habit and chubby legs, and is now about
half the size of her mother and one-third
as large, perhaps, as her proud father:
She eats great quantities OF hay ana
then goes into the water. Her life Is
not an exciting one. After being in the
water for time she may be seen oy the
observant student coming out again:
This constitutes her life work. Instead
of having a purpose in life, she does no
more for her race or for history than
Young lady at summer resort.
The giraffe always strikes me as a sort
~ q Redfern brute, somehow, while the
binnopotamus child and baby elephant
have the air of getting their clothes
made at home. Look for one moment
at the elephant. The seat Of his trousers
has a sag TO it which takes one back to
the first experiment made by ones poor
mother in draping a narrow and pony
how. I have passed through that mySeil.
went away to the academy wearing a
nair OF trousers like that, and | can still
rcmember how popular l was with the
town bows who hadn't had anything TO
tickle them for good while.
camo to them like ray Of sunshine
on the storm tossed ocean OF ne
landed among them like large, juicy
teuderlion steak in crowded den OF NY
enas-hyenas suffering with tapeworm.
oh. how joyfully they hailed me, with
nv fresh and taRzy scented atmosphere.
How they took hold of me aud wanted to
Enow who made my detected trousers
with the deep seated melancholy!
The elephant is much like a country
how. il seems to me. He has an air OF
outward stupidity which is often mis-
indped, for the elephant has gentle and
tender spots in his nature by which you
nav reach him without running q hot
nitchfork into him. He also has way
IF expressing himself at the proper time
in such manner as TO win respect aud
esteem after he has stood about enough
Jimmy business. At such times he man
ares TO make those who have reviled him
before beg to know the name OF his
trouser maker so that they can get ut
like his.
Central park is a very valuable and
beautiful strip Of woods, but 1t does not
touch the park OF Chicago, except that
il has the rugged beauty OF rocks and
hills which the Chicago parks do not.
Few Eastern people realize that Chicago
is Quietly and with timid and almost
shrinking modesty, which is almost pain
full, sailing on toward the top of the list,
and have often wished that sho wanld
attempt at leas, u ~sss.s .eiSeii