Arizona republican., 1907-09-10
THE lUNGERS.

I To the Editor of the Republican. Sir:
4 Dear friends of Phoenix. have been
. in your beaptiful little city since the
14th da- of February last and have
been a careful observer Of the differ
ent faces and actions of the sick.
have classed them of into four classes
Ffrst-What is known as the tough
lUngers. he has always dissipated. He
calls himself a sport
/ Second-The dyspeptic hunger Moth
ing Dleases him; his nose is always
turned up and the more YOU do for
him the less he thinks OF YOU.
Third-COmes the home boy. He is
mammals little darling, but he got the
con. and had to come away out west.
Everything he lad at home was far
better than what they have in Phoe-
NIX.
Fourth-But not the least, We have
what is known as the Jolly hunger, al
ways tr-s to be cheerful and makes
lots ot friends. Then comes the ac-
lions of the lungers that have classed
off
First-The tough hunger comes to
town smoking cigarettes; he walks
down washington street with a big
all over the sidewalk, paying no atten-
ton to the numerous little red signs
tackled IN plain view on all the teIe-
graph poles: he strolls over to the
Plaza and hoos himself down on one
Of tha benches by the city hall and
rolls another pill. He soon gets into
conversation and spells it off about
like this. We'll. dis place is de limit.
, De's guys here give me a pain ta'kin
about de bugs. da done worked over
time on me an I'm list breathin'
through me pipes. This is no fit place
for sport like me. As soon as me
Pal sends me de long green. I'm goin'
to hit de pike IL have to take ped
der out Of here" (Some hunger re-
marked what is peddler?) Holy
ter; don't you know what a peddler is 4?
Give us a match. Gull. A peddler is
smoke wagon dat peddles all de pas
sengers out down de pike and stops
at every lamp post so de Con. can see
how much he knocked down" This
kind of a hunger blows out of town in
about week and says the climate is
rotten.
Second-We meet the dyspeptic
Hunger. He strolls Down the street
ready to snap your head off if you try
to speak to him: he goes into a res
taurant with his nose turned up and
of course nothing suits him. He or
ders everything on the bill of fare and
muses. over IL, and keeps his nose
high in the air and when he goes to
pay his bill he pulls out 25 cents and
thinks he is going to get a rebate: but
before he gets out of there he will
find out that the people of Phoenix
are not as green as he thinks they are
And just because the business men of
Phoenix will not let him come into
their parlors and places of business
and spit all over the floor he condemns
the people. water and climate and
leaves town. What fools we mortals
be.
Third-Comes Willie, old boy HeI
is sick all right. but he has never been
away from home and he is used to
ma tucking him in his little bed at
night and keeps ma on the go all the
time. And of course he still expects
the same treatment. It's too bad Will
lie but YOU will have to get a transfer
and get on another car Now he
strolls up and down and begins to tell
everybody how big the pumpkins grow
where he lives and how cheap every
thing is: he can get board and room
down in Pumpkinville. Ind. for sSOOl
per week and he saw a restaurant
once where you could get a square