The herald., 1897-06-13

There are two Swallows and sixteen
Summers In direct contravention of the
old saying that ''one swallow does not
| make a summer"
Ten Swans appear in the directory.
one Hasty and one Fast but nobody
who is Slow, although there is one
Sleeper. There are ten Smalls and one
Large.
There are four Worms and ten early
Birds to catch them; and, speaking OF
birds, there are five Wrens. three Doves
and fourteen Hawks.
One Pancake may be found If one Is
looking for something to eat. May he
always keep right side up
The English financial system Is rep
resented in the directory by one Pound.
no Shillings, one Penny and two Half
pennies.
There Is a Poorman, a Richman, one
Goodfrend, three Goodfellows, two
Prettymans and one Sweetman.
The calendar comes in for share Of at
tention. There are SO Days but only
3S knights. One must have got lost in
the shuttle. There is also one May Day.
but no Fourth of July and no Christ
mas. But there are nearly dozen
Christians. This however, does not
fairly represent the number of church
people in the city. BY the way, there
are fourteen Churches to the ten Chris
tians And If a bit of moralizing be
permissible there are in every city too
many churches as compared with tho
number of people who visit them. If
there were fewer and stronger churches
the church as an organiza ton would bo
much better off.
Seventeen Fish may be found in the
net of the directory. Besides there are
eleven Beans, ten Hams and thirty-five
Bacons, so that one need not starvo.
Three Bears and an Eagle may be seen
in the menagerie. Both the Sheep and
the Goats are conspicuous by their abb
sence. The little girls may be inter-
ested in knowing that they may find
three Dolls.
Nine Loves and Eight Sweets form an
interesting combination, but there are
no Brides There are eight examples Of
Bliss, however.
One man is named Tag and there ara
sixteen Balls. but no Games There are
a large number of CANDLES.
1t Is interesting to know that two
Corkers may be found in this remarka-
BILE volume, and even one Bosh.
The languages are we'll represented,
there being English, Irish, Is French
and Welsh, besides one Parrot. who
ought to be able to speak them all.
Nine Smarts were also discovered.
HOUSEHOLD DIRECTORY
The household directory is one of the
new. and at the same time one of tina
most valuable, features of the directory.
1t is common in European directories.
but is found in only three American
ones. besides Los Angeles-those of De-
troit, Milwaukee and Peoria. The pro-
prietors have gone to considerable ex-
pense in providing this almost unique
feature, and they are confident that it
will prove very useful If one wants
to know, for instance, who occupies
house of certain number on a certain
street, the household directory will in
form him at glance. The more 1t Is
used the more popular it will become.
There are only two directories larger
in bulk than the Los Angeles, they be-
ing the directories of New York and
Chicago.
A great many people have the idea
that in order to make a city directory
it is only necessary to send out num-
her of men, collect lot of names, clas-
sify and print them But there is a
great deal more TO the process.
To begin, the managers advertise for
Il certain number of canvassers to col
lect the names. Over 200 men responded
this year, and they were at once en-
rolled in night school managed by a
competent corps of instructors.
Every night for two weeks were the
applicants drilled before man of them
was allowed to take a name. Their
r-rtt; ;v,sr tho To fy1,i
tested. They We're required to fill ou.
blank forms on a blackboard and re-
hearse the proper manner of approach
ing a family or an individual for di-
rectory purposes. If pupil was una
BILE to spell an ordinary word, say ply
scian" he was dropped. The test was
severe one, and soon the class of 200
dwindled down to 40 in number. A fur
ther wedding left about twenty canvas
sers, and Mr.. Maxwell informs me that
these survivors included some very
bright and able men. The schooling
that the remainder of the applicants
got did them no harm, and 1t probably
did them good.
The printed instructions covered three
large, closely filled typewriter pages.
One or two features of the instructions
may be noticed
Titles, like Prof. Dr. 'Col.,' MAJ
are never to be inserted unless paid for"
The pages OF the directory show that
the people of Los Angeles are not inor-
dinately vain.
BE polite and gentlemanly, particu-
larly so to cranks and others. Nothing
will be gained by pert talk
So much for the Los Angeles City Di-
rectory for 1897.
CHARLES v. BARTON.
FROM PRISON TO AFELUENCE