The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-05
Town Gossip and Stories
By The Tattler.

of very tender years have been fas- ing young women.
 Little Harry Emmett. the bright little son of Mr and Mrs H. l.. St. George, has proved that in spite of his immature years he is a good judge of girlish charms. He has been to see the Bostonians ire Quently since they came here, and is delighted with the shows.
 One of the first evenings he was at the show. he was watching the girls very attentively when Sun ny Jordan made her appearance or the stage. Then little Harry Elm nett clapped his hands with deligh; and turning to his father said:
 Gee, papa, what pretty girl
 They are also telling a story about Donald, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gordon. who has been highly pleased with the Bostonians. It was the evening that Patsie Henry, dressed as boy, had sung the motor-boat song. in which she imi- tated the noise made by the motor. that Donald was asked which girl he liked the best. Instantly he re piled that he didn't like any girl best but he did like the boy who went put -put-put-put." when he sang War A. J. Griffin. the genial Hurts commissioner and post Griffin. master of Ri chardson.
 who is here for the sum- mer holidays, is wishing that the war in Europe would come to an end.
 Of course, Mir. Griffin. like almost everybody else, wants to see stop put to the useless loss of life across the Atlantic, from humanitarian standpoint. but he has an additional and more personal desire to hear soon of a declaration of peace.
 AS postmaster al Richardson. Mir Griffin gets his pay from the can cellation of stamps on the mail de posted there. Before the war start ed the trappers and fur buyers in the Richardson district found it ad visable to send out their furs by parcel post, and during the year the postage on these constituted an important part of MT. Griffin earning. But since the war started and the price of furs fell, there have been but few shipments of that kind from his office. So he is chasing himself now as one of the war suf- ferers.'
 Tozier Attorney Leroy Tozier is Makes entitled to the sympathy A Hit. of the public, but he Will
 probably be the envy or many of the bachelors of Fairbanks. And it is all due to his being so at tractiye in the eyes of the ladies that he is becoming bothered by their attentions.
 Mir. Tozier seems to attract the fair ones much like the flame at tracts moths, but just how certain young woman outside, whom it is supposed MT Tozier has never met. came to be victim of his charms is something that even he seems un- able to understand.
 A few days ago MT. Tozier found among his mail a letter written in delicate hand, which proved to be from girl visiting the eXposi- tion in San Francisco.
 The letter starts out with a sort of apology for having been written. but the writer goes on to say that she had heard of MT, Tozier and from what she knew of him in that be a good papa for her.
 The writer of the letter stated that she was in San Francisco from a distance. and was accompanied by her mother. She wanted man to become her papa who could send her to school, and she was certain that Mr Tozier would fill the bill in every way,
 In a strictly literal way, the let ter might be taken to be from school girl who was wanting some one to pay her way through school, but between the lines it expressed much more. It contained a request that Mr Tozier send her his photo graph at once, so that she might know if he is as she fancies him to be, model papa
 MT. Tozier has not confided to his friends what form of reply he will send the person who wants to become his girl"
 Joke If in after years you hear On about the Alaska moose Tourists. fly please remember
 that the name was man. ufactured by Mrs. Strong, wife of the governor of the Territory of Alaska while she was coming down the Yukon river last week.