Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-12
Letters From Home
Goggles Writes.

on your way out who II tell you about
Salem. If you do, don't you believe
em. You wait and see for yourself.
| met a man once who laughed when /
told him l was going to live at Salem.
He said the drinking water was full of
germs here md that everything that
didn' t have whiskers was covered with
moss. You must remember that it is
not well to believe everything you hear,
as the "bind pig'' gentleman said
when cork popped. You've been to
parties where one girl copped out most
OF the popularity, and you know what
the other girls said about her. Most
of it was libelous, wasn't it' Sure it
was.
Let ME whisper something to you.
Salem has the most beautiful women of
any town in the world. This is a fact.
There is a report out that the men are
correspondingly otherwise. This report
is not entirely true. You'll understand
| that it is not when you see Jo Albert,
Dave Eyre, viii Walton, T. G. Bigh,
Judge Bushey, Ben Brick and lot of
other local celebrities. As near as j
can figure, the standard of masculine
handsomeness is as high in Salem as it
is in Boston, Mass. You can look up
the Boston, Mass, standard at your
leisure. 1t doesn t make a great deal
of difference anyway. Here as else
where Bradstreet and Dunn are the ar
bitors of masculine loneliness.
l saw motion play the other day at
the Oregon theatre. Bill Hart was in
l xVhU / oh nf ptIl
Hart when the subject of male beauty
is before the house! The name of the
picture was "The Primal Law" May
be you We seen it. 1t IS one of the worth
seeing kind. One of Salem's beautiful
girls happened to be sitting directly in
front of me- She was with young
chap who was good listener. He cock
ed his head in such a manner that one
OF his ears was conveniently located
for the young lady, and then he watched
the show. The oung lady's vocabulary
of adiectives was so striking that /
have ventured to use it in describing
the picture. She said the scenery was
swell. Also Mr.. Hart was swell. The
fight under water was swell. The lead
ing lady was swell. The story was
swell. The photography was swell. All 's
swell that ends swell See!
And speaking about shows, "The Mi
kado' was put on here last week by
home talent. Honest. | reckon you we
been deuding yourself with the idea
that the disease was eradicted long ago
But no. Somebody put something away
in a drawer with germs in it, ] suppose
For an amateur show it was bully too
But folks didn t fall for it very strong
Time was when the Gilbert & Sullivan
piece would have blocked the street in
front of the Grand. Not now. That
wave has receded. And Salem folks are
spending their loganberry money fol
the privilege of splashing in the wave
which happens at this time to be leading
the tide across the amusement sands.
1t ism u that the town doesn't like
music. 1t is music mad ] don't sup
pose there is u town on the coast with
more monographs. And when Henry
Stoudenmeyer' band gives concert in
the park. which it does two times a
week weather permitting, and some
times of Il Sunday afternoon, the at
tendance at the theatres down town
falls off But it doesn't hurt itself
when it falls off. Not so you could
notice it. 1t IS always able to come back
in time to see Helen Holmes do another
stunt and to take one more gasp Mt the
mystery of "The Iron Claw
If you we got a notion in your head
that you re coming to a new country
when you come TO this immediate see
tion Of the Willamette valley, you q
better forget it. The willamette valley
is an old civilization surrounded by
infinite possibilities. Get thatl IT,
new. but at the same time it's so old
that il has to squint three or four times
before it can see anything.
Our old college chum, Louis Hill, was
here the other day. Maybe you reat
about it in the papers. ] did. Every
paper said he was son of the late
James j. If you noticed, he didn't tall
much like the late James j. The lat,
. James j. was not not in the habit Of
going over his railway lines and saying
things to make folks sore. when th'
late James J.-but what the use7
This season IS crop Of prunes in thi
! section Of the United States of Americ;
: will weigh about 40,000,000 pounds
, Fine prospects for a change Of diet thi
winter in the boarding houses back cas-
what?
! Here's hint: Toddle over to the near
Z est drink foundry and try bit of 10
cranberry juice ON your stomach. IT il
liquid melody.
On the level.