The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-20

year who made O great stir by his green
ness about the way be should dress when
going out in society among the country
people
'He was staying at the tavern. and
everybody In the nelshborhood was anX-
iT9s 10 TO see me %id95W 50 GoFnoy new beau
attraction for him. Consequently tho
mite society was better attended than
house, where it was held. was crowded
to the doors. Everybody was there.
We'll, he arrived In due time, though
very late. 1t was almost 10 o'clock and
come of the folks were getting ready to
go home being sleepy. But he caused
quito enough of sensation to make up
for the waiting when he appeared for
instead of being dressed up in frock
coat and with a butterfly bow at his col
lar. he was all rlgged out In full evening
dress, swallow tail coat. white low vest
shoes, crush hat and all
You could have knocked everybody In
the crowd down with a feather; Mrs
Cornby herself. in particular, was SO
startled that between her desire to laugh
and her impulse to cry, from mortifca-
ton, that she came near fainting away.
when he saw that he was the only one
In the house logged out as he was, and
that instead of admiring his clothes they
were all laughing at him.
The climax came when one nice old
farmers wife. who remembered her
grandfather's old swallow tail coat which
he used TO wear many years ago "nen-
ever he dressed up, by day, as well as
by night burted out, loud enough for
the city man 20 hear:
Blessed IL he hasn't got on his
erandfather's old swallow tail coat He
needn't think we're quite as old-fash-
ioned as all that UP here. even II we do
1--we in the country, But It's black and
not blue, and there amt any brass but
tons on it.
''Her view of his attire was accepted
hy tho rest OF the company at first, but
u. fNl aud
got on his feet to speak he made
pretty good impression He went away
pretty soon, though and that's tho, last
wo eyer saw OF him. We never knew
just what his impressions were.
His Queer Idea of Strawberries
Must have been a little mixed" com
mentcd the smooth-faced chap who was
smoking pipe. My business is In town.
side where l can have 81 place big enough
To raise things on l have done so ever
since 1 was well enough off to lcaVo HE
In n city fiat TO those who can endure 1t.
Ono Of tho men In our office, city
born who had never lived outside. heard
me Dragging about country life last sum-
nier and asked me to take hlm out TO see
my place I was glad TO do IT,, and he
went home with me the next Saturday
night We we're kept rather late at the
office. and he had TO chance TO look
around till the next morning Then. at
ter breakfast. | suggested that We should
go out In the garden and gather somo
fresh strawberries, OF which | knew he
very fond
"Hc thought that q good scheme. and
we went out AS soon as we got to my
strawberry bed / Topped down on my
knees and began 90 tumble about among
the vines for the berries, expecting. OF
course. that he would do the same thing.
But he stood stllI. his mouth open.
" Whit are YOU doing down on tho
ground. Jim he asked,
- Picking strawberries, I answered,
got TO gather your own here, Sob
oh sure said Bob, but I-but /
Thought strawberries grew on bushes
Now wouldn't That jar you2 But It's
true as gospel
The Dartender's Niagara Trip.
II don; doubt it," put In the man wear
ing the fedora hat but I might have
been little suspicious ii j hadn't run
against as big city grecnhoTn myself
as your friend Bob. Two or three years
ago. when the railroads were sttll giving
out passes. on my way home from New
York, | got into tho same scat In tho
smoking car with q prosperous-lo
rat man who talked intcliigcntly enough,
though with a slight foreign accent. and
who. he told me. had lived In New York
ever since hc was u small boy.
Little by little he told me the story
OF his life. He didn't look ". but he was
n bartender who had only recently got an
interest In n thriving saloon After
while he said he was on the way 10 Nj
agarn Falls.
Now what gets me- he said is what
this here Niagara Falls is. I've never
been there-Tvo never been west OF Ho-
buken. being kept pretty busy behind tho
bar YOU sce-and I'd Ike to know how
big q place Niagara Falls Is. It, queer