Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-03-21
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often heard in this country that
manufacturers send their goods
abroad and sell them cheaper than
they do here. Several of the boys
thought they would be smart and
neglected to provide themselves
with footwear when in New York,
and as result were compelled to
pay SIS for shoes which retail any
where in this country for So So
The writer found the same true of
all American made goods.
The Norwegian barDer conde-
sscends to remove the hair from your
face, but considers it beneath his
dignity to battle it after he is
through, and the customer is COM
PEELED to go to the wash bowl, hold
his features over a miniature foun-
tain and with rough towel COM
plete the job for which the barber
is paid. No hot towels no perfume,
no powder. We could not help
thinking that an up to date, lux
uriantly appointed American barber
shop, equipped with the appliances
which makes shaving luxury in
stead of a torture, would do some
business.
Christiana is a city of over 200,
900, and is without sewerage, but
it has a garbage collecting system
which renders it one of the health
lest cities in the world. The re-
fuse of the city is considered of too
great value for fertilizing pur poses
to be wasted. The average work.
-ingman or mechanic earns from
ten to fifteen crowns week, and
when he wants to buy a pair of
shoes he has to pay from twelve to
twenty crowns for them. Imag inc
an American workingman earning
twelve dollars a week and paying
it all for a pair of shoes. The
result is that the repair shops are
piled high with shoes so delapi-
dared that the poorest beggar in this
country would be insultcd if offered
"a pair of them as a gift.
In our stay of twenty-seven days
in the country we did not meet one
Individual Who offered to black our
shoes or brush our clothes, such
work being considered beneath the
dignity of the poorest.
A STUDENT in Norway is a man
who is supposed to have brains
enough to become a lawyer, doc
tor, preacher, professor, writer,
artist, musician or something which
does not involve degrading mental
labor, and l am sorry to say that
when our guests observed the cal
souses on the hands of several of the
boys, who were farmers and work
ingmen not only in theory but IN
practice, they were just little
shocked. Since the adjustment
of nobility, class lines are being
less tightly drawn, and it is only {
question of time when labor will be
given its proper recognition
Everything struck us as being or
such a small scale. The stree
cars are dinkey little affairs, bear
ing conspicuous signs reading
ssSeats only for 10, l8 or 2o,' as
the case might be, and if you wish
to get on you have to walk to the
getting on place, as the cars d.
not stop except to let passenger:
off No crowding is permittee
and the cars run at frequent IN
tervals. How they would carry
20, 900 or 80, 900 crowd to and from
a baseball game is something WI
did not even attempt to figure out
One characteristic of the PeoPl
is their general honesty. All tn
stations along the railways ar
supplied with lunch counters, an
the hungry tourist steps up to on
of these, eat what he wants, tell
the cashier what he has had, Sh
tells him what his bill is and thu
ends it. The simplicity of this ar
rangement is admirable, but in
agine how long an American rail
way lunch counter would last IN
der similar conditions. Hats, coats
umbrellas and parcels of all kline
are perfectly safe laid down any
where.
The railways are owned by TT
government, and are consequent
operated for the benefit of the PEI
pie who patronize them instead
stockholders living in all parts
the world, who are not intereSte
except as to the size and frequent
of dividends. The government
not faced by postal oei1ci
either, caused by the most bar
faced and gigantic graft that III
scrululous minds ever conceive
The fares are very low, being II