The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26

so thick that the only fear of race sui
eide Is the danger of their killing each
other at play.
Its wonder to me when one of
their mothers sticks her head through
the window and yells Sammy" and
700 Sammies, more or less, answer
Yes, ma'am,' how in the name of won-
der she can pick out her own particu-
lar little Sammy.
"And yet they talk about the ignor-
ance OF the poor! The poor amt
ignorant-I've often said They're
just plain foolish. If they were more
ignorant and less foolish they'd cut
down their families--I mean their FAM
lily expenses, which is the same thing
and get in on the end of the race
suicide game that the rich are playing.
LAS for the rich, all l can say is
that l don't blame our multimillion-
aires for committing race suicide when
I see what their sons are doing with
the money. What man wants to be
the father-in-law of three back row
chorus girls, two make believe actress
eS and woman with past long
enough 10 fill an encyclopedia?
Some of the rich don't want chill
dren, II seems. on account of their be-
ing in the way Of their keeping social
engagements where il amt fashionable
10 take babes in the ballroom. And
the poor want children because playing
wiki EN-, whipping EN- and making
EN- work is the only amusement that
man on wages OF s. day can afford.
AS for the medium or middle class
es, it seems that they're sandwiched
in between the rich and the poor and
they want Just a medium number OF
children. Too many would be in the
way and take up their mothers time
when she ought to be writing an essay
against race suicide for the woman's
club. judge from what l hear that
you've got to go to a ball or the wom-
ans club to be in it these days, and
those who are too poor to afford either
belong to what you might call the
working classes.
"a medium or middle class family,
as started to say, contains about four
children to every flat, according to the
size of the fiat and the fathers purse.
Old Watson, the contractor, said to
me only the other day: 'HerbSt, as
long as this race suicide and play
reading fad is on keep on putting up
flats. For, mind you. it amt flats that
is making race suicide, but race sui
eide that is making flats. The old
fashioned family used to require
hotel with an annex to live in, but it's
gradually boiled down to model
apartment with one room, kitchen
stove and bath. It's awful to con-
template, Herbst,' he sighed. Then he
turned around and gave his agent
blazes for not showing up the rents all
along Race Suicide row.
GLOW is it, Watson?' asked, that
you haven't large family yourself?
You're fond of children, and all you
have to do to support seven or eight
more is to raise the rent on some one
that has no right to have more than
two
We'll, Herbst,' he sighed again, 4
came from one of those ideal 1S-round-
Interchangeable kind Of families that
my wife speaks about at the woman's
club, and can't say that my recolec-
tons of it are particularly happy. The
dining-room table was there all right,
but my wife was careful to omit the
fact that my poor old dad was so hard
pressed to keep us in clothes that it
would have taken microscope to see
anything on the table cloth.
"'You can imagine, Herbst, that it
kept my old man hustling to take care
of the is of us and himself. l think
if we had dared in those days to whis-
tie Everybody Works But Father"
he wouldn't have done thing but
reach out for an ak.
IIerbst, he