The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-10
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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The day OF rubber tires has surely
arrived II only the street cars and
the milk wagons would adopt them for
general use life would be decidedly
more worth living. IT ever there was a
town which by reason of the curse OF
much legislation and wretched streets
is specially designed to promote the
rubber tire industry that town Is
Scranton. There may be remote coun-
try districts where the corduroy roads
are worse than Washington avenue,
but they linger not in the recollection
of man. The method Of the rural SUI
pervisor in clawing all the stones big
and little from the surrounding coun-
try and heaping them into the middle
of the road for the teams to break up
at their leisure is an improvement on
the road making Of this town where
the holes are never filed up and a
wagon with ordinary tires and springs
is an instrument of torture.
1t is growing to be the custom for
Scranton men who happen to be able
to make luxurious gifts to their wives.
instead of diamonds. stock in coal
mines. inaid pianos and the like, to
bestow carriages with extra flexible
springs in the cushions and super pad
ded tires. Several ladies who are fond
of driving and whose nervous systems
have been nearly wrecked by jolting
over Washington avenue and other
streets. have been made happy and
proud with such surprises recently.
Rubber tires are a great invention.
They are equally desirable on wheels,
manners, conversation ana even on
thought. They slip over the hard spots
with a velvety haste; they leave little
sense of jar and soften the rough places
of life. | know a woman who has a
rubber-tired speech, which phrase
means something a deal nicer than it
sounds. There is none of that harsh,
grating friction that rasps unpleasant
ly on her acquaintanceS. She goes
softly in her uttered thoughts and
while there is none of the sbilant ir-
ritation of n whisper there is the soft.
gliding CaresS of tone and of kindness
that leaves beautiful memories. She
doesn't say disagreaable things to peo-
pie and what is still better she doesn't
think them. 1t isn't all Unborn sweet
ness either one day i'm reminiscent
mood she declared that she was natu-
rally Carping critical and ill-naturCd
in her judgment of other people, but
that she found these unpleasant traits
growing to such a phenomenal degree
that she determined to keep them un-
der subjection. Reing a person of
great determination of character she
has succeeded beyond what most Of
her friends could believe is merely aC
quired. She probably wouldn't like to
be called the rubber tired lady-fOr GER
tainly that is scarcely an elegant term
but in some respects it fits her repoSe
and self control and more than all her
gentle way of dealing with the fral-
ties of others.
1t is good thing to have rubber
tired temper that doesn't flash and
flame like steel striking flint at every
obstacle and every irritation. One has
so much better time if this little soft
guard interpoSeS between the sharp
stones of the world and the wheels of
ones irritability. After all it is ones
own self that is hurt and not the
stones. IT is so much easier and pleas
anter to go smoothly. for the blows
and the flashes Of anger are invariably
reacting in their tendency. the cushion
tire of self control is q grateful inter
position and as it rolls over the face
and over the heart it does not cut deep
burrows which remain to tell the world
that sudden Spasms of fury and long
hours of sullenness have marred ones
life, which like love lis hurt with jar
and fret"