The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-03-20
week was over every visitor was ready

week was over every visitor was ready
to throw up his hat for Dallas.
The Homecoming week Is new de-
parture In celebrations, and there Is
4 good story in connection with its
origin. Miss Louise Lee Hardin, a
former Kentucky girl living in Den
yer, listened to band playing my Old
Kentucky Home" one night and got
the blues. She wrote Letter the next
morning suggesting that Kentucky's
wandering sons and daughters be in
vited to return for homecoming
week.
The suggestion was adopted, and 1t
cost $4,000 ex-Kentuckians not less than
100000 because blue grass girl in far
off Colorado got homeslck; but every
Kentuckian thought 1t we'll worth the
money.
One OF the best established and most
popular annual festivals in the coun-
try is the Mardi Gras at New Orleons.
The Southern city does itself proud on
these occasions. Four professions,
Momus, Proteus, Rex and Comus, cost
$25,000 each.
A ball Is given in connection with
each of these professions, the expense
Of which amounts to $4,000 Other en-
tertainmentA illuminations, decora-
tions, rich and rare costumes, ETC., run
the expense up to s250,000 for the
weeks festivities.
New Orleans people figure that every
visitor who comes to town during the
carnival spends $50 and that the big
show Is a paying proposition for all
parties concerned. Other celebrations
almost equally as famous as the Mardi
Gras are the Yelled Prophets at st.
Louis, the Priests of Pallas at Kansas
City, Ark Sarben at Omaha and the
fall musical festival at Cincinnati.
New Workers are the most extrava-
giant of all Americans, and New York
is the costlest city on this continent
TO visit. No matter how much the aver
age New Workers. income is he lives up
to 1t, and often beyond it.
Manhattan has so many pacemakers
in spending that no matter how much
of spurge you make there is always
some fellow ready to go you one bet
ter. In speaking of the people OF
New York some one remarked to the
late Col Waring: "They devote them
selves to pleasure regardless of ex-
pense," and he replied: "Oh, no, they
don't. They devote themselves to ex-
pense regardless of pleasure"
A New Workers. income may increase
from $4,000 to $4,000 a year, but he
spends the one sum as readily as the
other.
When the Westerner first strikes
Broadway and comes in contact with
the sky high tariffs that abound there
1t makes the little shivers run right
up and down his spine. In London you
can drive in hansome from the Hotel
Cecil to the Victoria Station for a
shilling, baggage and all. In New
York cab for about the same distance
costs $3.50. One may stand about
the carriage entrance of Broadway
hotel or at the door Of garage and see
months salary for United States
senator blown in for automobiles be-
tween noon and dusk any day.
Look at the register at any New
York hotel and you will find the names
of people from every state in the Union,
people living on Broadway for a few
days at the rate of $4,000 year, when
their expenses at home do not exceed
$4,000. They figure that they don't get
east very often, and SO long as they
are there they might as well "see the
whole show"
BY the time they are ready to depart
their places are taken by other people
from the west, who are "just on for
few days, you know" And so New
York grows fat and sleek.-New York
Sun.