Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-12-13
TAKEN roc SERIOUSLY


ton is a great institution and 1t is
composed of great men, and we, as
small as we are. do not presume TO
criticise its action in taking offence
at Professor stevens now famous
book AN Annapolis Alphabet.
In the rush of our mad career, and
the whirl-a-gig Of our daily lifedodg
ing the electric cars that run through
our streets at 'steen miles per, and
az every third beat Of the pulse, we
must We say, while ricocheting out of
the way Of these, pause to remark
that the dear Brethren Of the i. NJ.
A. have taken the thing rather too
seriously.
The little book is as harmless as
an Elks Bazaar, or church oyster
supper, or even moving picture
show. Rather than injure Annapolis,
il has helped TO boom and advertise
II. Nobody takes the.book seriously,
unless il be one or two families with
ancestors to burn Tor who are burn
ing) few staid old ladies, or the
Business Mems Association. Every
body seems To understand it is
joke, a caricature on Annapolis or a
pleasantly.
Did Philadelphia or its business
men ever get angry or take action"
because Phila. was, and is, and
ever shall be called "slow town, =
or a sleepy town. Did Pittsburg
or its b. NJ. A. ever rise up against
being called a dirty, grimy, sooty
city, and yet these cities are carica-
tured in the press of the country, in
books and in pamphlets everyday, in
every year.
Does the President of the United
States or the Secretary of the Navy
take il seriously because each of them
is caricatured in nearly every paper of
the country a dozen times a week,
and dozen, dozen times on Sunday.
They would be kept busy, indeed, if
they did. Shall Annapolis, them
put herself on record as being the
most narrow minded town on the
map, by taking umbrage at little
cartoon Cor n few of them on some of
her characteristics, or peeuliarities?
we think not, at least we hope not.
Surely the whole matter must be
joke, and small, narrow. childish.
funny joke at that.
II Main street on Busy Day
has given so much oflense because
of the crooked telegraph poles and
the COWS, Professor stevens clever
pencil has portrayed in the cartoon.
he might have substituted few of
the huge telephone poles that line
Conduit street and a few hundreds
of the dogs that own the towns high
ways and byways.
If men, business men. and political
men are to become offended at car
toons, poor Mr.. Rasin. of Baltimore,
Mayor Timanus, Wachter. also Hearst.
of New York, Governor Warfield of
Maryland, and few other notables,
must be kept at white heat when they
gaze upon their distorted features and
unsightly poses in the newspapers of
the day.
We hope the dear Brethren of the
d. NJ. A. viii continue TO dwell to-
gether in unity, and leave the clever
little book An Annapolis Alphabet
to its fate. The supply now cannot
equal the demand. but if the Brethren
persist in condemning it, the result
viii be the advertisement will be so
great that the edition will run out be-
fore Christmas, and, spare us this
calamity, as we are thinking. some
OF us, Of this unique book as Christ
mas gift.
ruu-you attention to the fakirs
that come to town, gentlemen. the |
schemers, the bogus check men. the |
foreign men and women who solicit |
advertisements from you for 'calen-
dars, to those many. many things |
that take money oUT of the town,
not to harmless little book, full of |
clean. wholesome humor and jest that
brings money INTO town. We must |
~afrain from being serio-eomic or
grotesque.