The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-13
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BY w. n. Q.

Travelling mems schedules have
been all shot to pieces along with
train schedules this week. Trains
late. interurbans tied up and driving
almost impossible. made trouble ga
lore for statesmen. However orders
were fairly plentiful and every sales
man seemed to have a smile" that
did not rub off when they came in
last evening.
When a man gets middle aged. such
a. number Of 7. r. AS are doing,
and bis hair gets thin and has q moth.
eaten appearance. he has to shave
daily. keep his clothes pressed and
spend more or less time on himself to
keep from going into the discard AZ
far as looks IL concerned. Says Alex
Gordon to Roy Browne the other night
in q social session, II heard woman
say today you were the best looking
man In town." Roy, whose age Is
middle and can join with some Of Us In
the above description. replied-"Gor-
don. / know you are big liar. but
say 1t again. 1t sounds good"
A Winchester hotel proprietor says
that travelling men who stop with him
are carrying off his slop jars. He is
at loss to know how they smuggle
them out unless they break them and
pack them piecemeal in their grips.
Along with the jars is also missing
quite q quantity OF soap. This looks
bad on the face Of 1t. However, we
believe Richmond T. p. As are inno-
cent az far as the jars are concerned.
Az to soap the tale might be different,
- II js well known that Shreeve, Lebo,
ID Stall and some others making Win
chester never buy soap. and as towel
ing Is high it Is not altogether i'm
probable that said hotel man will miss
some OF his roller towels II he don't
discard them.
1t Ia too bad that so many of the no.
tells in Shorty" Shreeve's territory
have closed their dining rooms. They
all claim it is all on account of "Shor-
ty" eating 80 much. 1t Is q we'll known
fact that he eats enough through the
week to last him over Sunday. The
last hotel to close was the Scanlon at
Nashville. Indiana.
viii McClelland has been quite sick
this week with the grip.
While riding in one of Richmonds
'prairie schooners" known locally as
street cars, a few days since, l noticed
q lady who had on one of the modern
creations of head gear arise from her
seat to alieht at her destination. From
the seat to the ned of the car her
progress was interrupted but on reach
ing the opening In the end OF the car
called by the street car company a
door. Rer troubles began. She twist
cd her head back and forth, sideways
and In fact every way, much to her
embarrassment before she found the
angle at which she could get her hat
through the door and escape. The SUI
perintendent Of the city lines Is a
staunch T. p. A.. and think he should
or lines Of Improvement which our
street car system is soon to make, the
enlargement Of car doors. for it seems
the large hat has apparently come to
stay.
Mrs. NJ. Patterson, who has been
quite III with pneumonia IL very much
better.
visit to Indianapolis today to see
whether his job had frozen up or not.
The Midnight Crew" has started a
Current Event Research club" All
the great and troublesome questions Of
the world are promptly and satisfac-
torily settled every evening in the
front parlor by the "highbrows."
Post C.'s financial condition is the
best In years. The fact is we have
money loan. This speaks we'll for
President Harrington's administration.
Wonder when that rally that has
been talked Of for 30 long is going to
be pulled off,"
Directors meeting Saturday night.
January goth.
John Minnich's many Richmond
friends will be glad to know that he
will once more become Richmond
citizen after q seven months stay in
Chicago. John will be the Indiana
and Illinois representative Of the Cali
fornia Fclt Co, with headquarters
here.
The oenksy's Head.
Among the most extraordinary pieces
Of symbolism known to have been used
by the early Asiatics was figure Of a
donkey's head used AZ a representative
Of the deity. There Is no doubt what
ever that the same emblem was once
used among the Hittites. the Egyptians
and one or two other nations as a sym
bol OF their red god. SUIT. The super
stition Of the yellow donkey Of India.
the story Of the swift ass Of eastern
Aain and the nSx ~ DiOnysius and