The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
FOOTBALL FOREMOST
IN CE1YCAGO'S WEEK
Resume of The Weeks Affairs II the Windy
City, Nth Gridiror and Turkey
in the Lead

sistent with the Greek type Of archi-
lecture used. The building cost $780,
900. This is the fifth church building
/ to be erected in Chicago by the Chris
tian Scientists since 1897, and all are
structures of unusual size.
Chicago not only has large number
Of effective neighborhood improvement
associations, but league where they
get together and counsel each other
and do propaganda work. At the last
league meeting plans were formulated
for next season. Prominent among
these was the purpose of forming
leagues in the poorer sections of the
city, many of which are without
churches or settlements. In such quar-
tiers the use of schoolhouses for meet
| ing and lectures will be asked for.
| Among the lines of work being pushed
| by the auxiliary associations are clean
streets, garbage disposition, billboards,
the use of the schools for public meet,
ihgs, and the smoke nuisance. ~
A very frequent question asked Of
the newcomer in, a place is Chow does
this place compare with your old
home?' I have
Declares Chicago not yet had time
s/ nor opportunity
Socially to make anything
| but the most frag-
Behind Flour City mentary observa-
tions, but I was
much interested in very positive
opinion expressed the other day by a
woman formerly prominent socially in
Minneapolis who has lived in Chicago
She said: ''Socially and in the quail
ity of it's artistic development as re-
vealed in it's home / consider Chicago
very much behind Minneapolis. There
is terrible sameness about the en-
pertaining, which is lavish but very con-
ventional. There is one continual round
Of the same old things year in and
year out. There is lack both of So
cial leadership and of ideas in those
who essay to lead. In interior decorat-
ing the same dullness and lack Of in,
dividuality prevails and the proportion
of elegant homes with any distinctive
/ quality is wofully SMALL =
In some small matters they do things
better in Chicago than in Minneapolis
) however, I have discovered, and one
! thing is the han
:. In Some Ways ding of milk
5 Where formerly
/ Tho, = the standard was
. very low, the rec
r Chicago Is Leader ords show com
a plete change ant
,,1o e.,
when I pay for cream get it Of rec
ognizable thickness and good flavor
0 Milk costs cents a quart with no dis
O. count for quantity. Cream comes il
e bottles as small as a quarter pint thai
: just serves nicely for the breakfas
e coffee Of two people. The, ticket sys
;: tenn is not used; instead you have
q tackled on the frame of your back doc
l. record sheet with line for each da,
g in the month with spaces for maxim,
It all the different sized bottles of mill
II and cream. The housewife marks eac]
day what she wants and perhaps doe
not see the milkman more than once O
y twice a month when he comes to collec
= the amount indicated on the sheet.
Ice costs more per hundred in Chi
= cago than in Minneapolis, but as it i
q sold entirely on the coupon book pla
=, l doubt whether people generally pa
as much per month. Altho, there is
o slight variation in price the usual pric
q is SIS thousand pounds. The coupon
A. are issued for fifty pounds, but 2;
D. pound pieces are sold. While in sun
y mer the. consumers bills would III
D. doubtedly ruin rather high at times, i
L.
al week in a small refrigerator, maxim
n the expense very small.
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