Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-06-28
GIRLS WHO DRINK WINE
A Soda Fountain Clerk Gives Them
Dead Away.
THERE Is A DIFFERENCE IN CITIES
Talks BY the Wayside About Various
Ihiags-A Local Drogstst Teiis OF
His sad Experience rs a Re
porter Oh u Big Daily.

speaking of town characteristics, "
said u travelling man IN the Morton, as
he cooked his feet up u peg higher
and lighted Hoffman House Bou-
quet, .'they are as different as midi.
yIdual characteristics. Now, l have
travelled for the past fourteen years
and I'll tell YOU how IT strikes a'e.
Grand Rapids is a club town. There's
the Owashtanong with It's large mem
bership. the Peninsular, the Press Club (,
the strongest for town of the size that
| know. and the rest. Even II other So
cieties are not popularity known as
clubs, YET they have the social spiiit,
and strive TO have rooms of their own.
The result is seen right III my custo-
mers. go in To see u Grand Rapids
| merchant, ana get 4 cordial greeting
! aud a welcome Grand Rapids is not Il
boiled SHIRT town; it's a rcgllge shirt
Iown-nothing like the dont-touch-me
STYLE that characterIzes many other
cities.
Detroit is an athletic town. Every
body down there Is stuck" on the
| athletic contests, and at the central
championship meeting on the Fourth
| of July you Will see bigger crowd
| than you would at the suburban handl-
cap. They all want 10 know what you
| think of John Owen rs a sprlnier or of
Ducharme rs burdler, etc, etc.
jackson is a Horse Town.
Everybody knows the crack horses,
and every man of means has ms flyer.
There are scores of breeding stables
about there, and in the winter you'll
! see many n brush down the road at Il
30 clip. You may see more fine double
| teams there IN minute than in Detroit
| in an hour.
Ann Arbor, as a university town, is Of
course very individual. A peculiarly
you'll notice is that everybody smokes
| cigarettes, that they roll them them
selves. Dirty habit! smoklng-isn't il?
! always Ike to get out of Ann Arbor
| though, for at every turn you get cigar
cite smoke in your face.
Kalamazoo is a dressy place. Every
body secms.tO throw on style.
| Bay City is an advertising town.
That's n peculiar characteristic TO pick
! out, perhaps, but | never saw Il city
whose merchants believe III printers
ink as they do in Bay City. The town
is always plastered with hand bills and
advertising snaps Of every description
are thick. Other towns of the State
seem to be just as peculiar, and as for
! the cities OF the United States-every-
body thinks of u PhiladelphIan rs half
asleep, a Chicagoan as on dead run, q
BostOnlan as 4 specialized, scholarly.
looking thing, and u Milwaukee man as
Half Full of Beer.
Funny thing; isn't .t?'
eyes used to be reporter" said a
local merchant. land perhaps that's
the reason | have made what little
success / have in the world. Oh, bless
you no. | wasn't good one. Far
| from it for was fired SIX times i'm les,
than Six months from six different
papers. / rather hate to tell You about
| it tor it was hard experience l had III
those days. You see | had neve,
known the want of n dollar. | graduated
from Yale and you know they are
pretty bloodcd there. had some little
pride anu when graduated | thought
to myself, Charlie, my boy, guess il
wouldn't hurt you to get out
and hustle few para ph 70,
have never worked any yet.'
rather took the old gentleman
| wind away when refused my month 8
allowance soon after graduation. A
| friend of mine worked on a paper in
| Detroit and told father | had situa-
| ton offered me there. Next day
packed up aud went to Detroit, and
had 81 or s. in my pocket. Well. my
friend couldn't give me a job just then
| but gave me letters of introduction Il
several city editors. rather had the
idea that my college education would
secure me u position right away.
even had an idea that | wouldn't have
to report long. Well, tried week to
get a place. but couldn't. | began tc
avoid my friends and went two DAYS
without n bite TO eat. Then secured
place ut
sc n Week on n PAPER.
.I was used like n hired man, and
| guess | walked twenty-five miles day
chasing fleeing items, but stuck to il
| wouldn't write home for money, as a
local paper at home had said had &C
ccpted Il position on n prominent De
| tfOlt paper. Il lie tcCtnu Week 4 wa.
| fired, the city editor saving he wanted
a man of more experience. / go'
hungry again and worked the FIRE,
lunch business for three weeks. till
| finally struck another job. Well, thai
| was the story for SIX months. and
kept getting fired and being reduced to
sleeping IN barn and living on free
lunch till WAS nearly dead. Finally
concluded | was not a reporter, and GO
| n lob IN Wholesale drug store.
Il made bet with the boss and wa,
soon sent out on the road That ended
! my experience educating the dear pub
lie, and you can bet your happy life
don't want any more OF H. The lessor
| learned. however, braced me up and
took the conceit out of me and show Cd
me even that college graduates mus
| work"
MAYBE you Wouldn't think it." saic
soda fountain clerk IA he turned or
the soap bubble mixture, but it's no
| only TIE bows that want stick II
their red lemonade The girls FIRE
quently drop IN and looping down into
a chair. say. oh. am 50 tired today
| believe
Taste OF Wine In the Soda
would brace mo up. just little, now
| There, thanks"
just az he finished speaking two joll'
| looking girls came in one A n4acnffiaer