Iron County register., 1916-10-12

about forty minutes. We visited
various business houses and depart
ment stores, inspecting a good deal
and buying little. Opportunity did
not limit our purchases; the check
string was operated from the other
end. All the stores were crowded
-buyers-femininity greatly pre-
ponderating. The masculines in the
presence were generally attendants
in waiting, grudgingly patient. Did
you ever abide a lady's "fve min
utes" in one of these places? 1t not,
you are minus an instructive ex-
perience, though, as the oft quoted
old Tony Weller would say, whether
it is worth while going through SO
much to learn so little, is a question.
Leaving the dry goods emporiums we
lodged our way to the type foundry,
down on Third Street. The neighbor-
hood has no enchanting look: mold
ering walls, frowzy windows and ILL
kept pavements, encumbered with
numerous specimens of dirty, un-
kempt loungers, odorous with bad
whiskey and sickening cigarettes.
The locality is not an inviting one,
and the unsophisticated would not
choose it for promenading after night
fall. A few minutes sufficed for my
transactions at the foundry, in itself
a wholesome contrast to its surround
ings. Returning, we saw two police
men in charge of prisoner awaiting
the coming of the hoodlum wagon.
The prisoner was standing against a
telephone pole, inert, eyes closed,
maudlinly powerless, and perforce
nom resisting. l thought how abso-
lutely secure are the lives and prop
erty of the people in a city which de-
votes the service of two big, stalwart
guardians to one helpless "drunk !"
Down here in Ironton, Fisher unas-
sisted would have taken him to the
lookup in wheel-barrow and
thought nothing of it. Q
The white safety lines and the
traffic police these days shear the
city street-crossings of the danger
and perturbation that formerly at
tended them. The pedestrian now
has some rights which the automobile
is made to respect. 1t cannot with
impunity "pussy-foot" him into eter-
nifty, and he can easily avoid collision
with the street cars and other vehicles.
We returned to the family habitation
in the evening without let or mishap.
Saturday was devoted to good deal
of sight seeing and small sprinkle
of business. On our way to the music
house on Pine street we met police
man having in charge three boys
rangingin age from eleven to fourteen
years. | felt sorry for the youngsters
and said to my companion, "What
can they have been doing?" A gentle
man overheard me. "Stealing BIZ
cyles," he said; "the Reformatory
for them" l hope the institution
will make good it's name to them. A
night we went to the Garrick and saw
the play, "Experience." 1t was good
and left clean, wholesome impress
sion upon the understanding. But
think the orchestra was suffering
from hookworm or some simila
enervation. 1t seemed to be a-weary
nd-excepting the flute, the zylo
phone and drums-devoid of energy
Maybe, though, the fault was in me
| may not understand the concord o.
sweet sounds etherially rendered.
| Sunday returned home on No. 8
The train was crowded even to th,
sleepers; but the trip was quickly AM
comfortably made. I had the goot
fortune to meet DIR. and Mrs. Eator
of Bismarck returning from Noun
Vernon and the companionship short
ened the way. The Doctor is a con
genial comrade. It's good to G
abroad once every few years, bu
isn't the return home might
pleasant feature in the adventure?