The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-20

.neS affected Dl lHe hlSn fdtt of ferriage charged by the small boatmen
 But then that is the penalty ex acted of them for living across the river from the city. They are hop ing. however that the city will soon install the bridge In the meantime most of them have made a resolu. tion to stay at home at night ra. ther than pay $125 when they want to go to 25 cent picture show. Give \ number of people have It A the very unhappy facul Name. ty of forgetting things
 others assert that they find 1t hard to think of more than one thing at once. Some forget what they started out to do if they try to do two things at once, while others do something entirely foreign to what they intended to do if they are preoccuped with thoughts of something or somebody else.
 Here is one example of "preoeeu- pation.'
 Not long ago a well known mer chant of Fairbanks had occasion to call up the x C. company and the D. C. company. He was busily talking to someone at the time but nevertheless he rushed to the phone when the business matters entered his head. When he got there and rang for central, he had entirely forgotten who he wanted to call up.
 When central answered him he said, T want want--Oh who do want. anyway" Central replied ip a very calm and clear voice, q think you want the detention hos pital.'
 Another example of preoccupation also has to do with telephones.
 One day a young man employed in a well known local institution was sitting at his desk. He was not very busy for the moment and it is therefore evident from his sue ceeding action that his thoughts were far away.
 Suddenly. as he sat there deep in thought, the noon whistle blew at the N. C. plaut Descending calmly off his stool, still in thought, the young man walked over to the telc }hone and, taking down the receiv- CT from the hook, answered the supposed phone call by saying: First National"
 Tom Got Tom Gibson is proud of All He his capacity as an eater. Wanted. He has always claimed
 that the part of him which Is the inner man, never gets enough, but lately he had an eX- perience along eating lines which he will remember for some time to come.
 A few days ago Tom, with the other boys of the force of the Sam son Hardware company, was taking wood out of drift pile above the bridge. Night came along and found the boys still working, but they knocked off shortly after on ac- count of darkness
 It was not until then that Tom bethought himself that it was time to feed he inner man. He hesitat- ed on going home to eat, thinking that his wife would have had dinner and put all the dishes away. He therefore repaired to one of the First avenue restaurants, where he ordered feed commensurate with the large amount of labor he had performed that day.
 While Tom was at the restaurant. his wife called up and wanted to he wasn't when the waiter came to look for him.
 Then he went home to find that
 
 his wife had dinner waiting for him and that at an hour when he mad expected her to want him to take her to the picture show. Of course, after all of that care, he just had to eat again, so he started in.
 When telling the story to his friends afterward, Tom went through all the gesticulations of how he reached for small portion of this, a smaller portion of that and d still smaller portion of something else Seeing that he was not eat ing as usual, his wife became so- licitous for his welfare and asked if he was not feeling well.
 Tom, never having been of de ceitful nature, had not thought oi that explanation of his failure to eat, but he acted upon the sugges tion Later in the night, however, there was no 'act" to it, for, as Tom afterward explained, the cold water of the Cinema river gave him case of cramps in the legs that would make any man sick, and he was really sick all night.