The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-09-06
Jennings Produces Writer Of Comic
Fiction.
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Brother Farmer, had been a real flesh
and blood farmer and not the child OF
the authors uudeveloped imagination
he would have known that ban had
long since been placed on the public
drinking cup, and that the Welsh
schools have for long time not only
been furnished with strictly sanitary
drinking pipes, but with sanitary
toilets, sanitary Mushrooms, strictly
modernly equipped laboratory, a
first class school library, q thorough
sewerage system, as well as one Of
Those places to attach hose" in case
of a FIRE, which also excited B. Farm
er's surprise when seen in Jennings.
The next source Of establishment to
Bro. Farmer was the tank at the water
works system He says, THAT great
tank is kept supplied and it is high
enough that it will put water on
the highest building in town"
and "the piping from that tank run
along the streets and here and there are
places to attach the hose. By the way,
those places Bro. Farmer are usually
called fire plugs or hydrants, and it
is the common habit of all we'll trained
water mains and water pipes to "run
along the Streets so the JenningS's
variety are not especially different
from those Of any other town.
Bro. Farmer now stopped at d res
taurant and discovered that they we're
doing their cooking with gas, and al
though practically every school boy
knows that Jennings has a gas plant
that is of a very doubtful financial ad-
vantage either to the town or the people
B. +. with child like simplicity is made
to ask "How do you generate your
gas only to be Informed blythe cook"
that it was made at the gas works.
Brother Farmer not being able to
resist the attractions of great city
wandered, around until it finally be-
came Rather duskish," when wonder
of wonders. electric lights were turned
on, and B. f. found that "the poor
man" could see just as we'll by them
las the rich man." although we doubt
If he was told as we have been by
Jennings man, that the poor man, who
lives. several blocks from any of these
Wonderful lights has to pay taxes to
help support them just the same as the
rich man nea: whose premises these
lights are located.
While walking down the magnificent
boulavards Of the CITY On the Norman.
tau viewing the tall one, two and three
story-Scrapers, he suddenly came to q
building OF different sort which B.
f. thought might be meeting house
or something" but which upon inves.
tigation he discovered, was the
Carnegie library. We fear from this
blunder that B. F. has imbibed TOO
strongly of that ice buttermilk of which
he tells later, as the average Welsh
farmer is far too we'll acquainted with
churches to make such mistake as
that when sober.
Brother Farmer now having become
intoxicated with the wonders of q
great city OF 1895 souls decides that
be will go the full limit of wonder see.
ing. With awe he approaches the ice
plant, and sees room filed with cakes
OF ice. and in an ecstacv of delight ex.
claims"It certainly is a wonder.n A
visit to the butter factory, where B.
Z. was treated to buttermilk, concluded
the wonders OF the day, and as he casts
his wonder.widened optics upon this
newest of all wonders he exclaimed
again. 1t was grand"
B. F. winds up by saving that when
a man does 60 to the court house be |
wants to go where he can see some. |
thing."While we realize that brother
Farmer" is simply creature of the
mind, ana that the author of the article
referred to here doubtless lives ia ZEN.
nings, it will not come amiss to show |
briefly the inconsistency of the so
called argument of this article. IfR
f. has resided in this parish homo
enough to be voter here be must have
transacted legal business at Lake
Charles. Now Lake Charles has water
works, did he ever go and visit them
and enjoy the dizzy delights of gazing
at the tall tower9 There is Carnegie