El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-17
Ell PasOans Not Prudes
September Morn" Oes Not Even
shock Policeman Leary-Tele-
phone Hfnts-LittIe Interviews

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phone Hints-Little Interviews
I'll PASOANS are not prudes. They
n have been tested and found not
- wanting. Fred Feldman says
he made the test with September
Morn" the famous painting which
caused so much comment in Chicago
and the east. Mr.. Feldman displayed
a o of the original painting in toe
window of his art shop and watched
the effect it would have upon the pub
lie. In Chicago the original was or
dered taken from the window of an
art store by a policeman, who held
that il was immOdest and not lit Tor
women and children to see.
Mr.. FeIdman watched for patrolman
Iearv to come along to see what the
effect would be upon the artistic sense
of the San Antonio street patrolman-
Leary looked at IL. lit his pipe and
murmered some picture-believe me,
some picture" as he pounded on down
his beat to the peanut philosophers
stand on the Stanton street corner.
I have had a lot OF comments and
many compliments upO that picture"
Mr.. Feldman said. There was not a
single criticism and everyone who saw
it in the window expressed the great
est enjoyment in the beautiful picture
of the young girl standing in a cool
lake, the same picture OF which COL
lier's weekly printed the head IN de-
ference to its Chicago readers The
verdict of FL Paso was hat 'Septem-
Der Morn is a beautiful picture with
cut any suggestion Of immOdesty-
Dean D. Clark, the man who put the
try in Tri-State, has compiled a few
telephone don'ts for telephone users.
Mr. Clark says that the Tri-State Tele-
phone company gets many kicks from
the delivery end OF the telephone bat
terry but there are q few hints from
the receiving end which might be
timely The greatest OF these, Dean
D. depOses. lis the making Of memory
calls. Don't call a number, not even
your own home, without being sure
that il is not the brewery or some
other place of ~iniquity. Mental tele-
phOny is the cause of the most Of our
worries at the central exchange
Speaking CistiLctly-nOt too loud.
please-in the t-ansmttter is another
answer you calls promptly in order
that the line may not be gUmmed up
too long We have 81 OF the most
faithful operators to be found IN any
telephone exchange in the country and
they are trying every minute Of the
time to give the public good service
The application Of the good old golden
rule to the telephone service viii
greatly improve it and the nerves viii
be spared this hot weather."
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The travelling public does not kick
about hotel accommodations as much as
it did in the old days when hotels
were not the palaces they are now"
said z. O. Hart, clerk at the Paso Del
Norte. Even the little town travel
ing men are no longer members Of the
kicker's CLUB. The modern hotel is
largely responsible for the elimination
Of the objections which used TO put
hotel clerks into early graves. People
who travel little never object and the
Ia animal ME0TaNar has Han-naE Tnn- 100
that his kicks, unless they are gilt
edged. get him nothing. The result
is that the life of a hotel clerk is not
the bed OF thOrns that IT once was
when I first broke into the game"
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Democratic simplicity has struck
the federal building" a government
officer said today 7 suppose the Dem
Ocrats do not believe in drinking water
for they have discontinued the pur-
chase Of distilled water for the offices
IN the federal building and the only
place to get a JeffersOnian drink is
somewhere else, for there is but one
cooler to each floor and all OF the
Chinese, Mexicans and negro janitOrs
drink out OF these"
There ought to be some way TO get
after the persons who are poisoning
good dogs" said J. R. Kerr, Of 1OII
North FL PasO street Il had a wen
bred Airedale TERROR. He was so smart
that when I went out TO split kfndling,
he would pick up the pieces and sniff
them with his teeth II I had a BAH
anywhere, he would find it. He
up the chickens at meal times
ana saw that they got something to
eat n II he wanted anything. he
would walk around the room on his
hind feet and beg for it At nights we
kept him in the house and he never
bothered anybody. Tuesday morning
l let him out at five O'Clock and A IirtIe
later I found him dead Somebody had
nOnE0naA him Lna Il
dog that was a nuisance n brought
her 10 Juarez trying TO lose her and
cOuldn'L Then I had her killed. Thew
never bothered her but thew killed the
good dog That is the kick dog own
ers have It is always the good dogs
that are killed" .
TUESDAY afternoon 4 lo-ngshoreman
Sook a cargo at a booze emporium on
NORTH oregon street n TO
navigate the distance to a hotel on
south FL PaSO street. on his sea legs
w heD about half way TO the bafeI ~
met a negro trooper coming from an
opposite direction. Get out OF the way
the Wobbly one yelled to the trooper.
what you sayT" asked the trooper.
Get out of the way. one of You. or
both of you. That's what I said" re-
peated the uncertain one, reaching for
an elusive lamp post.
an amt In yuh way" answered the
Then 0 don't have to get out OF
H. said the man, lurching on after
connection with the Iamn most.
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There are two Jobs in this world I
you'd not have" said policeman J. c.
CapIinger at a baseball game at Wash
ington Park. one of these Is presi-
dent OF Mexico and the other is a has,
ball umpire"
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II God loves the Irish. why does
ne give al the money to the Jewse"
asked J. Porter Bender. Because he
SHOWS II he gave it to the Irish. the
Jews would soon get it all anyhow"
replied T. J. Cassidy.
Tom Lea has a favOrite joke which
mas told Oftener than any Other
Silly Smith claims that he brought Il
10 FL PasO many years ago Here n
IS I hear Hinnisey died this morn
ing, said Pat. An phwat did he die
asked Mike. "Gangrene." replia6
Pat "-GanErene2" said Mike 49,
God bless the color"