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
railroad station. Women are more
nervous and more anxious than are
men, and, while a man will so to sleep
with a grip, cane, an umbrella, and a
camera piled in a seat four feet away,
the average woman keeps a hand or
foot on her Valise while she sits awake
1t is only now and then that 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
might come in simply to find warm
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 a 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 III
any other city in the world
Strangely enough, too, of all these
passengers coming into the city, the
enigrant and the immigrant, traNehns
uDOn second class tickets at a reduced
rate. receive more attentions and are
allowed more rest than any other class
of travellers .-
YOUNG ITALIANS ADVENTURE. 2.
The other night in the Union statloA
small greasy Italian came UP INTO
the general waiting room from the tram
sheds Juggling "A big heavy telescope
and looking around him with VIDE.
black eyes. The special ctflcer SOW tin'
in a moment and the ewes grew WlfHi
as the official steured toward MIN
The hoy did not sDeak K English. but the
officer smoke some Italian. and at 4
word .he bOv without question SaNt
the officer a ticket. with which the or
Ger walked away entirely out OF sight
of the small fOreiqner. Put the blue
coat and the prominent star We're as
suranccs and the boy stood without
sign of worry until the officer had re-
turned to him from the ticket Windows
in the middle of the long room Th.
ticket was for La Grange. the hom
was 1890 o'clock. and the night outside
was unusuall-- dark and forbidding
Take him ~ TO the emigrants
room" said the officer to "a station
usher. ..If he goes out to Ia Grange
tonight he'll get lost. He can sleep M
there and so out the first train in ths
no~n.rg."
And the little italian trudged away in
all confidence upstairs in the station
where especial accommodations are pre-
vided for 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 more comfort than any
son of any citizen who IS in like sta
tion In life"
And tire oldest nart of the whole re
mark is its uncuestioned truth.