Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-17
KLONDIKE THE CRAZE
IT is ALL THE go" IN EVERY
THING.

THING.
Out-Triibies Trilby in Current
Slang and I1umOr-It Is the Crest
of the Wave Of Popular Expires.
sion In Gotham as Everywhere
Else.
| The New York Journal has had its
horoscope on the pole star, which is
directly over Klondike, and the follow
| ing is about what is discovered at the
kNsw York end of the instrument:
| The name of Klondike" comes
trippingly to the tongue. 1t has
caught the public ear, has become
firmly entrenched in the vernacular
of the day and will no doubt attain
the universally of use that followed
the introduction of "Trilby."
Any piece of good luck is called a
Klondike strike. A prosperous ven.
ture is Klondike. "He is right in
Klondike" has succeeded the express
sion of He lives on Easy street."
The Klondike neckties, Klondike
hats and Klondike cigars have ap.
peared on the market. A Fourth ave.
nue. Raines law hotel has been chris.
tened "The Klondike" in all the glory
of newly painted signs.
The Klondike" restaurant on Park
row has risen from the greasy ashes ol
the one-time Trilby." Cards in East
Side windows announce the first an.
nual excursion and moonlight hop OF
the Klondike Social Circle.
A suburban real estate corporation
has given the name of Klondike
Heights to some fiat land on the out
skirts of Brooklyn.
There is Klondike Cafe" on East
Fourteenth street, near Second ave.
nue..
Klondike" farces and sketches are
featured on the bills OF the continu.
GUS performance houses, and all the
travelling vaudeville shows and bur.
lesque companies have given Klondike
a prominent position on their wall pa
per.
The Klondike cocktail has made its
appearance in dozen frst-class bars
downtown. 1t is made preferably oi
gin, with vermouth and orange bitters
really on the lines of the Martini, but
the Klondike suggestion" is given by
a floating piece of lemon or orange
peel, cut into disk and just the size
of 500 gold piece.
Park row and Ann street fakirs are
selling the "Klondike puzzle" 1t is
a new form of the many puzzles, or,
really, tests of nerves and patience by
which little ball is made to roll into
a certain compartment. In the new
puzzle the play is to "get the nugget
into the pocket" The trick can be
done, but it is almost as exasperating
as the pigs-in.clover device, which
nearly upset the minds of the nation a
few years ago.
The music publishers are early in
the field with Klondike marches,
waltzes, schottisches and gavottes
tho comic-song writer has seized his
opportunity with a catchy refrain
about being off to Klondike in the
morning, and the pathetic-ballad writ
er has already got in his work
with the story of the mother who
iondly waits for her darling boys re-
turn, while the stars their watches
keep over the snowclad, lonely grave
upon the K-lon-dike."
With the registration of yearling
colts next spring there will be scram.
BILE for the name of Klondike.
More than one druggist has hung on
the outer wall the announcement of
"Klondike soda water" which, of
course, is o claim for its extreme frig-
idity. The Klondike ice cream freezer
will come, and the Klondike arctic
overshoe.
Many unfortunate and helpless chill
dren will be christened Klondike, and
the man who has been going through
life as John X. Jones will declare that
his middle name is and always has
been Klondike.
On Upper Broadway fashionable
dealer in furs has made hit by dress
ing up a show window as an arctic
landscape, in the foreground of which
are male and female figure, elabo-
rately clad in the complete costumes
that are worn in the arctic regions.
Other dealers attract the attention
of passers-by to their windows by phot-
ographs of Klondike scenes, and a
Broadway jeweler has a crowd all the
time before the window, in which is
heaped little pile of golden nuggets,
labeled "Fresh from the Klondike."
NOT every cyclist knows how to oil
a wheel properly. A bicycle does not
REQUIRE to be soaked in oil or fabricated
to such an extent that it leaves trail
of grease behind it and catches every
particle of dust in the air. Before
oiling, all dust should be carefully
removed. The proper places to oil q
b;cvcle are the front and back hubs