The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-12

"Alice blue but not for me. 1t looks
like a faded blue nose on a cold day.
1t would spoil the finest complexion in
Emporia.- making it appear frowsy
wearing ssA1ice blue" they should also
take to wearing masks
Very few Emporia boys look like
magazine pictures OF kuppenheimer
clothes but the Charleys around the
Bellvue- Stratford seemed to have been
cut out of Life" or the advertising
section Of the Saturday Evening Post.
They are wearing very broad silk
fOur-in-haDd neckties, loosely tied,
peering anXiously in the overcOats of
fashion to find those cOlOred knit
vests that il was said We're to be
stylish this year-but without success.
That was a false alarm. Charley
Vernon for once got off ahead of the
game. The boys in the buzz wagons
may wear them, but they are buttOned
under many other clothes if they do,
and are to be neither seen nor heard.
Which brings up the subject of the
buzz-Wagon. They are great fun, and
are now getting within the reach of
the honest rich. One may be hired
for a Sunday afternoon-and many
are hired and not owned here in the
castor the price of a weeks salary
of an Emporia boy who frequents the
of the people who buzz around the
big cities are hiring their pleasure.
and are just as poor and probably
much more honest than the writer
hereof, who chestily sailed through
Paramount Park behind a man with
goggles on, the other day, exciting the
envy of his betterS on foot and in
buggies. It may be just as well here
after not to wonder who those filthy
rich people are speeding by in the
ski-dOodle cart Maybe 1t is just as
we'll to wonder how much they are
oVerdraWn at the bank, and to wonder
It 1t is your bank. This is a world
fun of paper-mache, and it is no
where so easy to put gilt on paste
board as it is in the city.
Philadelphia is considered a great
joke by New Workers. But it is real
~ the decenter town of the two. The
faces of the men seem kinder and
more American-looking here than in
New York. One is forever seeing
faces Of men and women who look
like the portraits of the signers of the
Declaration Of Independence, which
hang in the old building near the
liberty bell And they were a pretty
fine lot of old bOys-Or history is
badly mistaken. Also you can talk to
Phfladelphians on the street cars with
out being arrested for a misdemeanor.
They are human sort; they are many
OF them natives and in New York
most of the people come from the
country. The Philadelphians seemed
to be more used to the cars-more
city broke. more used to being man
handled than the New Workers, who,
however they may pretend to the cos
mOpOlitan air, are frequently Varnish-
ed jays with the paint cracked badly
in spots. This, however, is merely
opinion of one man. The truth may
be quite the contrary and it will pay
to wait for the official returns before
being sure of any statement that a
traveller makes of any place. But just
in general way. without wishing to
disparage the great and good metrOpO-
lis, a pilgrim and a stranger in this
part desires to register the sentiment
Philadelphia, and the happy rags
the assorted groceries and the hired
buzz-wagon for me''-William Allen
White in his paper, the Emporia Ga
Zette.