Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-09-26
YIDDIsH PORTIONS OF WINNIPEG.

foreign section of the city And the
courteous business man who was
driving us round informed us that
they hadno trouble at all with that
part of their citizenship during the
war, but the major part of them we're
made up of peoples from Europe not
of Germanic blood. We noticed a
number of shops and stores where
the signs we're lettered in that pc
cuiar alphabet which belongs to the
modern Jew and is called "Ylddish. "
Like the Chinese characters its so
far from the form and shapes of the
roman alphabet which we use. that
we could draw you no mental picture
of it without actual prints and we
have no such type in our outfit, but
suffice it to say that such letters are
of larger size than ours, longer
lengths and more pronounced curves
and flares.
Let us skip back a little and speak
of dinner 1--WE would call it support
which was given our party by
t. EATON co, LTD,
in the Canadian room of their great
department store at Winnipeg. This
concern operates cham of stores 10
Carada and its very much like Sears,
/ Roebuck & Co.. in the States only IL
differs from them in that it sells
both in the city and out, doing a
great business through the mails,
express and freigt.ts. Their build
ing is one of the great sky scrapers
lof Winnipeg. The meal was not
quite ready when our party landed
there few minutes after six o'clock
after the store had closed and pretty
we'll all the clerks gone, so we put in
the time going from floor to floor and
seeing their immense and varied
stock of goods. On one floor where
lorders were assembled for shipment
regardless OF size. we noted some
"Port' 10 bottles AS 1t looked
like wine and the name indicated it,
some one spoke of that. The keen
cared guide who was along. quickly
caught up the remark AMI stated
that it was non-intoxicant or 1t
would not be going out from Eaton S
as the house had adhered to the pol
licy of its founder, the first Mr. Ea-
ton, whom he said was devout
Methodist and who declared when
he first opened business that there
were three things he would not han
Idle: Playing cards, tobaccos and H.
liquors. Being told that he would
fail with such a plan, he said he
would have to fail, and the guide
says you can see how he has not fail
ed and how the business has grown
and grown to its present great size
with a number of cities covered by
great stores like this.
1t was from the hat-roof of this
tall building that we got wonderful
birds eye view OF their city reminding
us of similar glimpse of New Or
leans from the top of the Hotel
lGrunewald. Men looked like pig
mics in the street below and it made
ones head dizzy to gaze straight
down. Among the MANY interest
ing buildings pointed out to US from
this lofty view point was the
CHURCH OF RALPH CONNER
thor of the book Black Rock, which
won him fame. He is Presbytere'
an minister whose real name is Chas.
VIM. Gordon and who wrote also,
The Sky Pilot and MAN from
lGiengarry," all tales OF missioners in
the Canada frontiers. Having read
Blaca Rock with great interest, W
Ieditor gazed long and thoughtfully
at the church where its author min
istered to his great city flock j
was a stately building OF sp res an6
! other architectural lines of the Sc
we're beauty which the SCOTTISH peo
plies rear even with large edifices.
i AT the Eaton dinner we got oul
first introduction on this trip to the
British custom as J. Bruce Walk
er, the ranking representative of tht
Canadian government in the conduct
of our party. termed it, in drinking
/ ToAsTs TO THE KING.
Il They always dwelt on words, Sc