The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-18


ties" when the union is stronger it
will insist on employers doing likewise.
Mail and Express.
She Stopped the Car.
Those exasperated persons who see fly
ing by them car after car on the surface
on signal will be pleased to learn that i
St. Louis woman has solved the problem
the New York Press. Mrs John Schroers.
a woman of wealth and fashion. stood for
half an hour at Missouri and Geyer ave-
nues in that city and signaled approach
ing cars to stop, none of which would
motormen and conductors, that the cars
were behind time and crowded. But
Mrs. SChrOerS didn't do many persons
do-stand in the middle of the track and
defy tie cars to come on Instead she
stood to one side, and when her patience
was exhausted and one car was abreast
of her, she lifted the handsome gold
mana ana. with me SWING over ne
panes with all her strength The car,
after running a few feet, stopped Mrs.
Schroers. in the meantime, had crossed
the street and gone along Missouri ave
nue.. presumably to another line The
conductor ran after her and. overtaking
her, asked, Why did you break the win
Because she replied, "I have been
standing on that corner for half an hour,
and no car would stop for me You have
no right TO run cars by and not stop for
passengers who signal YOU"
The conductor asked her to go to the
car shed with him. block away. to de-
eide who was wrong. but she declined
She gave her name and address, however,
to him. that he could make q report
to the company on the broken window.
And that seems to have closed the incl
dent.
An Expensive Fad.
Collection of spoons of every shape.
value and description is now the reigniIg
fad of the fashionable and those who
have the mania do not seem to care how
their treasures are obtained long as
they get them. I don't object to-fads on
principle. said the proprietor of a pop
ular restaurant the other day but there
Is one in vogue now that l would like to
see run its course and give way to one
which respects the rights of property
The young women of this town have a
craze Tor collecting restaurant spoons
They don't care for them at ALL however
unless they bear the mark OF the house
from which they We're flched- No, they
don't take them themselves. The aver
age young woman, all reports to the con-
trary Notwithstanding. is timid when in
their gentlemen acquaintances that they
appreciate such things and the men do
the rest says the Chicago Sunday
4 can't say how many have lost from
good customers whom couldn't call
down even if 1 were to catch them red
handed. The customer of a place like
this is likely to be worth several hundred
dollars in the course of n year and a few
spoons more or less would not cut down
our profits to any large extent. but the
practice is annoying. and for that reason
it abandoned.
Say. l knew one young fellow who
couldn't steal even to please his best girl
what DO you suppose he did? He went
and had a lot of spoons especially stamp
ed W tn the names OF different restau-
rants and gave them to her one at
time. She undoubtedly has a choice coli
lection. but | have often wondered since
1 heard about it if she would set as much
be informed that the donor came by them
honestly"