The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-23
HOTEL CORRIDORS

WudC Illll6 uO yOu lSllOWS SeL up
out in Washington" said a business
man to gentleman here on a visit
from the coast as they met in one of
the hotels. Pretty time to keep an
appointment, this! Here 1t is IL
promptly at g."
at his watch and found it to be just
gotten to change his time-piece to
Eastern time and was two hours be-
hind in everything up to that time.
The laugh was on the man from
Washington.
A. D. Moe, the Hood River boomer,
is never too busy to exploit the many
good features of that country and is
always an interesting conversational
list. He met the Evening Times Man
the other evening in the Antlers'
lobby and we heard SO much about
apples, berries and other fruits, that
our mouth fairly watered at the de-
scription of great, luscious red straw
berries hanging in prOfusion from
their green stems, and apples, rosy
checked and juicy wasting on the
ground for want of drove of school
boys to devour them. We recalled
times not so far back when we skirt
ed neighbor Blake's high board fence
at the risk of life, limb and breaches
to say nothing of that part of a boys
anatomy ususlly the most inviting
to bull dog when the boy is going
from him, for few little, wrinkled,
hard bullets of condensed agony called
russets, and then suffered for eating
the same.
1t makes fellow wish he could
turn loose in such an orchard just
once where no foreman was to call
copy" and no editor to do the blue
pencil act on story he had thought
was just about right-(this may suffer
likewise.)
AS the reporter who writes this col
umn sat down on one of the comfort
able seats in the lobby of certain
hotel the other evening, an elderly
man, evidently countryman, took
seat by him and conversation soon
sprung up about common place sub
jects until the reporter made his bus
mess known. Say, remarked the
stranger, "why don't you newspaper
fellows write up something that will
get up spelling bee, real old fash
Toned spelling down like we used to
have when I was young feller,"
Half the young folks now days
can't spell for shucks-betcher life
they'd get their eyes opened"
The reporter modestly remarked
that the young folks nowadays were
pretty good scholars but before he had
gotten further the old man broke in
with-"Yes, but spelling, by ginger,
they can't spell for shucks-can you
spell?" The reporter allowed that he
could, little and the old man rose
from his seat and said: "I'll bet you
a good, ten cent smoke you can't
spell rhinoceros, and daguerreotype
and parallelopedon.' Just then the
bus man called, "all aboard. N. P.
going SOUTH" and we made a hasty
get away thankful for the excuse.
What is that cut under YOU. eye?"
said well-known travelling man to
one of our business men the other
evening as the two friends met for
social chat in the lobby of the Hotel
Dacotah. "That?" replied the bust
ness man, We'll that is from having
a close shave, and will tell you how
it happened"
II was being shaved in one of the
local barber shops the other day and
when the barber got ready to go over
my face the second time told him =
wanted close shave as it was Satur-
day and l was to go to church with
my mother in the morning and in
cidentally out to call on young lady
friend later on.
We'll, things were progressing
nicely until some one opened the door
suddenly and the barber glanced
around, the razor slipped from his
hand and fell plump into my upturned
face and then to the floor. I hap
pened to have my eyes closed, for If I
had seen that blade coming should
have jumped and would have probably
received much worse cut. AS It
was, the razor point pricked me under
the eye and escaped without any
other mark. Mighty lucky, tell YOU"
What did you say to the barber,
asked the friend. Ok
Say? Why was a little put out
about 1t as you may imagine, but the
fellow is natural wit, and after
apologizing, said with merry twin
kle in his eye, and any way, sir, you
called for close shave-wasn't it
one?' I let 1t go at that, but / am go
ing to get safety razor and try that
for awhile for haven't got over that
chilly feeling up my spine yet"
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