The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-02

utes, but the blue Of civic authority won
out at the last. in time to put the cow
boy aboard the train for his native west.
WOMEN LESS LIKELY TO DOZE.
In the main men are the sleepers in a
railroad station. Women are more
nervous and more anxious than are
men, and, while a man win go to sleep
with grip. a cane, an umbrella and q
camera piled in seat four feet away,
the average woman keeps a hand or
foot on her valise while she sits awake.
IT is only now and then that a sleepy
woman viii explain to the matrOn OF
the Woman's waiting room that she has
TO wait five hours for a train, and thus
have permission to get the sleep that
she may be composed enough to take
For, as to sleeping in stations in Chi
cago, the general prohibition of it is
simply to protect the sleeper against
missing his train. The traveller may
be distinguished from his fellow who
place in which to lounge and doze, and
as to the possibility Of persons losing
baggage or pOcketbOoks while asleep
there is little danger-nOt enough Of
itself to cause the order to keep awake
In general there is little material in
ducement for a passenger to go to sleep
in railway station in Chicago. The
benches are designedly hard and
straight of back. so rallied off into in
dividual seats that only an especially
small Tom Thumb could hope to lie
down on one of them. At the same
time Chicago is so situated on the map
that more worn out sleepy passengers
come into its railway stations than Ia
any other city in the world.
Strangely enough, too, Of all these
passengers coming inbO the city, the
emigrant and the immigrant, travelling
upon second class tickets at a reduced
rate, receive more attentions and are
allowed more rest than any other class
of travellers.
YOUNG ITALIANS ADVENTURE p.
The other night in the Union station
a small, greasy Italian came UP lnlo
the general waiting room from the tram
sheds Juggling a big, heavy telescope
and looking around him with VIDE.
black eyes. The special officer saw htf'
in a moment and the eyes grew Wlt'"t
as the official stepped toward him
The boy did not speak English, but tne
officer spoke some Italian, and at a
word .he bow without q question gaN-
the officer a ticket. with which the Or
Ger walked away entirely out OF slSitS
of the small FOREIGNER But the blue
coat and the prominent star were as
surances and the boy stood without Z
sign of worry until the officer had re
turned to him from the ticket windows
in the middle Of the long room Ta-;
ticket was for La Grange. the hour
was 1890 O'Clock and the night outside
was unusuall-- dark and forbidding-
Take him ~ 70 the emigrant
room" said .he officer to station
usher IF he goes out to Ia Grange
tonight he'll get lost. He can sleep up
there and so out the frst train in the
morning.
And the little Italian trudged away ia
all confidence upstairs in the station.
where especial accommodation are pro-
vided Cor his kind who are new to this
country. its ways. and its language
Yes" said the officer. in a medita
tive tone. that little chap can travel
! in this country cheaper and with less
worry and with moro comfort than any
son of aav citizen who is in like sfas
tion IN life
And the oldest nart of the whole re-
mark is its uncuestioned. truth.