Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-24
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK,
Rippies or the Current Of Life in the
Metropolis.

woe shrouds Languere square, the
chorus girls and Johnnies join in lit
tie swear" writes the New York cor
respondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch.
"And all along the great white lane
| this one thing is discussed How deal
ers in the State of Maine have formed
a lobster transformed trust to
corner lobster and to whipsaw up the
price. Every detail of the job stirs
| thoughts which are not exactly nice.
From along the whole white highway
| goes up an awful wall, for folks see in
this measly way to menace the dim
| ner pail. Think Of the feelings of a
man who through the day has toiled,
at finding in his dinner no bright red
| lobster brOiled! Think how the down.
| trOdden chorus girls and other foot
| light charmers large Walls of righteous
| wrath will hurl upon the heads of the
| Armours. Right fancy soon will be
| the charge. and pay the price you
| must but still some Holsters are at
large, unshackIed by the trust. If you
| should think this is bluff stroll along
| Broadway, where you will see Holsters
enough on any kind Of day. No
matter if it's dark or bright you'll find
| any day or night than storm New Eng
lands coast. There's the lobster of d.
| lubber, whom we dearly love to knock.
| who on windy days will rubber near
| the wild Flatiron block. Then the
curious sort of creature who would
just as soon as not ask strange dam
sells with good features to join in "a
bird and bot" Another ripe variety
imbibes the flowing bowl until in in
ebriety it has to flash a roll Another
kind that we all know and could give
| up all right is the gray-bcarded, bald
headed beau who cuts up late at
night. With Holsters on the water
cart and HOLSTERS who should he, and
lobs from whom we'd gladly part all
round about we see. We would not
mind If they were caught and handled
by trust. 1t is cinch they'd not
be bought, and SO the trust would
bust
A woman who appealed to the Char
ity Organization Society for help one
day last week said that her son was
able to assist her if he would.
What does he do" She was asked.
"He is the brusher, and has charge
of the boOtblack chair in a hotel" was
the reply. "He makes between $50
and $40 week."
The agent sent out to investigate
and found the woman's statement true.
Her son is employed in one OF the big
has s, close to Madison square, and
to assist his six years. He declined
turned him away fronf4cause she had
married. he explained. and it cdse Was |
month to run his fiat. -.,
The young man told the agent he
was no exception; that the position of
brusher in a large hotel was worth at
least $50 a week if a young man at
tended to his business. Hotel pat
rons are liberal tippers. The brusher is
expected to find seats for customers if
the BARRIERS chairs are filled. and to
hand around the morning and Illus
trated papers. The boss barber pays
them no salary. Permission to work
in the shop is considered sufficient
compensation. The hours are long
and in most cases brushers are allowed
boy as an assistant
new rag to chew upon when they read
gixsr by Mrs. Lucia Gale Barber, who
laid: Tine ideal woman is she whose
exterior is in harmony will: the beauti-
full things of earth: her countenance is
open and serene; her eyes clear; her
voice firm and sweet: her step and
movements free and light; her dress
and appointments. however simple.
decorative and BETTING her station and
he tot nd
and is good 10 look upon: she is an
ornament. Interiorly the real woman's
mind is furnished with calm judgment.
decision, imagination, and her soul
with love. faith. hope and clear con-
seriousness Of good. She moves along
the earth. carrying help and healing in
the sympathy and tenderness which
sic pours out in unstinted measure:
she increases the joy of humankind by
her own joy in living: her clear cour-
age puts strength into the discouraged
soul. She is light illuminating the
ways of her going" After this one
would imagine that rothing was left TO
be said but the fact is that it is only a
beginning.
new vice has captured the tender
called. and it has won thousands by it's
seductions. The police and State
Board of Pharmacy are at work in an
effort to stamp out it's disappearing
influence.
Many who have tried blowing the
burners as a catarrh cure are now
slaves to the cocaine. morphine and
opium habits. The new vice has in a
few years made it's inventors Million
aires.
III almost every drug store in the ten
derloin and in many Of the Harlem
drug stores there arc on sale a number
of so-called catarrh cures" The price
per bottle is 20. 25 ani 40 cents. The
substance is in white powder form.
With the bottle comes a glass and rub
Der tube attachment. These catarrh
cures" contain more than the legal 2
per cent Of cocaine.
The glass tube is filled with the pow
der and placed in the nostril. The rub
Der attachment is placed in the mouth.