Evening journal., 1908-06-22
Personal and Pertinent
oLp.TIME sopY.

All. that little the little village storei
You remember IT, recokn, from amidst your childhood
AS altar mystic onyx. at which thirsty souls would
Marble glass Cand also pewter)-mean compared with
Of now
with Jet Of liquid squirting in a captivating dome
Like the rattle OF seet storm on the window panes Of
Yes the sound well suggestive of an ICY wntry blast
And presumed TO WOO the nickes that labors had
Wnassed.
Let call 10y rote the What a tantazing rowi
We have stared so oft along it that swan we ought to
know
Chocolate wild cherry ginger strawberry and sasspa
riila,
And those regulation standbys good old lemon and
vanilla.
With chance at "saraogy' and at vichy on the side
Beverages for elders but by youngsters seldom tried
Twas sanrt quite sufficient for the stricest epcure
Ana the widest dreams of childhood might no finer
draughts conjure.
Then it didn't take mixer" educated at a school
CAS- demanded by the palate today upon the stooD
Ladling du,npns stirring, pouring with a flourish and
And new names invented daily further custom to be-
At the RELY, truly" fountain there were motions only
Frss the navor next the sody" and all ready was the
brew.
Long before the fad of sundaes; stun from egg and
fruit begot;
Long before greedy public thought of having soda hot
All. the grand anticipation when we shyly sided in
ana surveyed the magic frontage dangied happy
While keeper of the altar cr Brown or Mrs Jones,
Suerlea. wen what flavor. Children in over
Chocolate. strawberry or ginger2 cherry-huhl or
sass'parilla.
lvcr taste the combination. mingled lemon and vanag
II Is hAzng 4 is foaming, it is mounting in our nose9
How proxies how it ckes, how tingles to ones
Edwin L. sabn, in the New York Sun.
Herbert s Biselow Cincinnati an ardent advocate Of
the initiative and referendum, has the happy faculty
apuy nus ,rStng MS points with anecdotes. His
Speaking OF civic virtue. Mr.. Bgeow said Cincinnati
Is the worst governed city in America. To show hov,
widespread was the knowledge the cys infantry Mr.
Pgelow told OF Cincinnati commercial traveller Who
visited Hamilton. Ofo, elephoned TO custoner f
ms hotel The charge was twenty cents The traveller
considered this outrageous and told landlord so
why down in Cincinnati I can telephone N
and back for a nickel" he added
Mell that's all within the city limits" was the re-
tort courteous-Miwaukee Free Press
couple of city men playing golf when the,
saw an old gentleman looking at them wstfuy They
asked him 70 join the which he did with alacritv
lie was mid IN eneech and and PLAYED we'll nm
once when he ma fooze he calculated veheentlv the
"Assouan,-
few moments later. when he had made another bad
play, he repeated
"ASsOuani"
The fourth time he said this one of HIS new made
y do not want to be inquisitive. but will you tell
me why you say 'Assouan' s often? %
dam in the world?" se'
He was Presbyterian clergyman.-Kansas city Post
in ten minutes the battle would begin The enemy
o1tnumhered them five to one
Boys sal inc captain, solemniy I'VE have hard work
before rs See that you all armed to the teeth"
Esr dewn the lac little oF1sr.ty nervousiy nsd up
his hand ~
"Please. Captain"
well. Ollarity.
IL haven't any tathA"-chioago News