The Alaska citizen., 1915-01-11

Outside with which SOrno pioneers of Alaska have but little acQuain- tance is the cafeteria. the new kind of a restaurant where every fellow gets his own meal on a tray as he passes counter. and thus he does not have to wait for walters.
 In recent issue of the Alaska and Northwest Mining Journal d story is told concerning Al. Lund, sourdough of Cordova who has been visiting Outside after having remained in Alaska for 22 years.
 Mir. Lund went to San Francisco first. and one day he stepped into cafeteria for lunch. He took a seat at table, and, after waiting for some time for a waiter to at tend to him, he became restless. People at the other tables cast amused glances at him, and finally he became desperate and going over to the cashier, he thundered in an indignant manner:
 What's the reason I cant get served here? Ain't Alaska money any good down here?"
 Then everybody laughed.
 Boosts Little Mona Robarts, Fairbanks who was raised in Fair Climate banks, and is the 12-
 year old daughter of Mir and Mrs. Jack Robarts, now Outside. in writing relatives here proved to be an animated booster for the climate of this place. Her comments on the climate are as in teresting as they are original.
 The Robarts family is now living at South Fort George, British Colum- bia, and the little daughter has been putting up strong plea for a return to Fairbanks. In the letter arriving here from her few days ago she explained that there was some snow there and that she had been skating some on a slough, but she added:
 We haven't had much skating this winter, and hardly any fun at all I hate this mild climate"
 Prospect Over at Nome there are With a few miners who still Willows believe in the magic
 power of a willow in To- eating a paystreak. At least that Is what the Nome Industrial Work CT asserts in the following article published in that newspaper recent ly:
 Tt may not be generally known that the willow wand cult is spread ing fast in the Nome mining dis trict, and even this winter a num- OCT of prospectors are sinking and hoping to locate the paystreaks that the crooked willow has revealed The cult is awakening. despite, quite a number of scoffers and skep tics who regard it as form of dementia and without any sort of re liability whatever.
 The story is told that an old time miner was engaged in running a drift to reach a paystreak located by willow wander and was taking it along nicely at a drainage in cline. The man had no idea that the paystreak' had been located by any such thing as forked willow and when the prospector who had located it, shouted to him that he was four feet too high, he asked him how he knew. The willow man replied that Instrument said so, and when the miner saw the instrument he jumped his job. The story is told for what it is worth"
 Accidents It is too bad that all Bring the stories that come to Reward the ears of the Tatler
 cannot be published as I@ of the people and the dates, but some of the stories are given with the understanding that names must not appear. So here is another of those stories, which are minus names
 One of the popular young women of Fairbanks, a favorite with the men generally It should be explained, is one who received couple of pres ents in an odd way recently. The incidents not only are proof of the young woman's command of the re- spect of her gentleman friends, but is also an evidence of the gallantry of the men of Fairbanks.
 The young lady was at a dance where the floor was unusually slip J. dancing with a certain man when he slipped and fell to the floor. He was very much embarrassed, and noticed too that it mortified his partner. That was the first of two unfortunate accidents that evening, the second being the painful effects of a big shoe on the same young woman's dainty foot.
 That night the young woman went home in anything but a pleased frame of mind. but the next day she was surprised when a messenger brought her a large box of fine candy from the man who had humiliated her by falling while dancing It was only a little later that another present bottle of perfume, arrived from the gentleman who had stepped on her foot. She is now of the opin- ion that accidents in ball rooms are perfectly lovely"
 Spasm Scrap-books, as has been Likes The said in these columns scrap-Book previously, are convieni- ent things, for they pro vide us with some of the best thoughts of present and past times There are people, and there are newspapers, too. that cannot get along very we'll without a scrap book, and one such newspaper is the NewsMiner, commonly known as the Spasm.
 But sometimes the Spasm takes