The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-04-05
Looks Good to Father

"You look awful good to father"
sang the long man with the chin whis-
kers and the silk hat. He did not sing
loudly but with much fervor and he
stopped the other fellows in the aisle
while he looked into his birth and
gloatsd. The fellows behind him had
been spending an hour Dr. two in the IL
brary buffet car of The Pioneer Limit
ed, and they were introducing him to
one of the chief distractions of the train
on the way to Chicago.
sit looks good to me, '',he. said turn
ing around and inviting the bunch to
look into the birth. "Say, what's the
name of the fellow who wants to
feather the nest of the youngsters who
want to get married and start house
keeping on four dollars a week? Well,
forget him and let US say a good word
for the man who feathered this nest for
father. Amt it the limit?"
"We amt it The Limited?" butted in
the frivolous one of the bunch.
"It's more of a hit with me than
anything I have seen since Ilhave had
a home to stay away FROM" said the
long man withwhiskers. st appeals
to me because it shows that the rail
road people have come to a proper ap-
probation of the rights of the old man.
Father has been caricatured and ridi-
culed, he has been permittedat be the
producerof the family, and nobody has
thought about his comfort. Even the
song writer's, who have dealtwith fam
lily matters, have talked and wept a.
bout mother and the girls and the only
time they have referred to:the old man is
to indicate thatshe..is out getting a jag
somewhere and that it is about time for
him to getback to his neglected family.
But here is the goods. Here's where
papa shines amidst the glitter of exotic
woods, polished to a peak, illumina-
ton that doesn't dim as long as you
can stand for it, and a bed that permits
papa to stretch himself to the limit and
then some. "I've got eight brass bed
steads in my house and I don't like to
say what they cost because you fellows
might think I was boasting, but if I
could trade those beds for births that
look like this. one I would be in the
market for the trade tomorrow. It's
me for my nightie and repose."
The other fellows enjoyed the glee of
the long man SO much that they listen
ed TO his grunts of satisfaction as he
stretched himself in the birth and an
nounced to the porter that it was the
first time he had room to stretch him
self while he slept since the day he
had run away from home and travelled
west in an empty freight. .
And The Pioneer Limited not only
looks good to father, for it is just as
much a hit with mother and the rest of
the family. The new sleepers on The
Pioneer Limited were not made for the
head of the family by any means.
Father may be moved to admiration by
the glistening and brilliant train, from
the magnificent engine and the buffet
car to the %dazzeling rear-end sign, but
1t is in the attention to small details
that the appeal is made to the rest ofthe
family. The big, roomy births, the fine
equipment, the ample toilet accomoda-
tons and the excellent service claim
the enthusiastic admiration of the wo-
men who travel even as the big birth
commanded the appreciation of the
long man.
The train is incomparably finer than
the finest of the trains de luxe used by
the royalties OF Europe, and the speed
and comfort with which the journey
between st. Paul and Chicago, is now
accomplished makes the trip something
that is more like O diversion than a
task. The Pioneer Limited of the G.
NJ. & St. P. R'y sets a pace for the
world in approaching the limit of COM
fort in travel.-W. B. Hennessy in
st. Paul Trade Journal.