The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-10

the other side and gets fresh"
Has he an employment agent over
there?" the visitor asked.
Nah, nah," said the Donegal man.
He jists sends wore to Galway. And
the gentry of thin parts saddle up
their horses II run down one of the
poor creatures. Then he's blindfold-
ed. and shoes put on his fate"
The man at the next unit SEEM
ed uneasy upon hearing this. Perhaps
it's just as well that the Astor House
is soon to be closed.
ta
One OF these days you viii walk up
that portion of Broadway which lies
between Thirty1fifth and F~orty-second
streets. And on each corner you will
discover groups of we'll dressed young
men talking about themselves.
"Frohman offered me a yard and a
half for the season." one will say. But
l said to him:
"'Charley.' 1 said: Charley. you've
got to make it two yards or I'll turn
You down."
The young men are actors. The one
who said that he told Charley hat
II he didn't get two yards he wouldn't
play is putting over a fine selection of
spring breezes. Two months from now
he will be nicking his acquaintances
for w bits for beer. Frohman likely
never heard Of him. If Frohman ever
did hear Of him he'd think the actor
was named after the wine. But the
yard and a half" thing?
That is actorese. A yard is 500
weekly salary. Two yards is 5000
weekly salary. The truth is apt to be
$40 weekly salary.
A new peril is threatening our fair
city. There is the possibility that next
Year the sort of young man who likes
to run a sartorial ranicaboo will be
wearing Observation-Disclosures
and down Broadway. More than that.
There is a fear that this sort of young
man will be wearing silk stockings.
There is even the hideous chance that
he MAY wear funny colored silk stock
ings-maybe open worked or clicked
SO thai persons with bad family his
tories had best leave their Sullivan
law ~siXshooters on the mantel before
they walk abroad.
Those Yale seniors did it," sal a
SILK manufacturer. brightly. They
wore knickerbockers this spring as a
distinctive class costume. It is very
likely that the idea will make a hit
with u good dressers.' and that
young men generally will take to them
next season. 1t will be a big thing
for the silk business"
It's apt to be "A frightful boost for
the coffin makers, too. Not more than
a week 6 the ~suffragettes of the city
called in forty or fifty of the most
adonisy young men they could find,
and put 'en in judgegavegan skirts,
and planned a spectacle. And they
found that New York city shinbones
mostly have a wide outcurve, and that
the average New York young mans
lower limb-I'm trying hard to be nice
about this-looks a good deal like that
of a goose. So they clothed these for
ty or fifty goodlookers in the longest
skirts they could find and the suffrag-
cites were heard to lament that an
cient Roman soldiers did not wear
trains when they went to war.
And this was a picked bunch. mind
YOU. Imagine the run-of-the-min
young mana cow-hocked, pinlegged.
spawned atrocity-putting on knicker-
bockers and silk stockings and ven
turing himself in public! 1t would be
an invitation to ~manslaughter.
Those Industrial Workers of the
World seem to spend too much time
outside the sphere indicated by their
statewide title.