Evening star., 1922-02-12


City andsthe City Of Homes and the
City. of Brotherly Love, all meaning
the same city namely Philadelphia.
Well when I read the article could
not help from thinking suppose they
was stranger in America or at lease
Penna. and he was riding on the
train and Ne happened to get off at
Philadelphia and ask somebody what
town was he in, and they should say:
you are in the Quaker City"
And maybe he, would think to him
self.- l. will half to thee these people,
and he would go up to policeman
and say:
will thee direct me to a good
hotel?" Well, the policeman would
probably say:
What are thee trying to do-kid
somebody" and he woud thee him
over the head with a black jack.
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OR, suppose. that instead of the
" Quaker City they had told him it
was the City of Brotherly Love and
suppose the stranger. should then
walk up to the first citizen he seen.
and in a spirit of brotherly love,
throw his arm around the guys neck
and call him brother or kiss him or
something, why chances is that he
would wake up in hospital with
some of his best front teeth stuck in
his throat.
Neither the one nickname or the
other fits the old burg as our friend
the stranger would soon find out. and
as for calling it the City of Homes
why on the different occasions when
n been there I generally always got
the impression that nobody had any
home, or II they did, they never went
there.
So as far as these three sub titles
is concerned why they amt none OF
them which comes anywheres near
filling the bill and when you get to
thinking it over. why the most Of our
cities has got ridiculous nicknames
if at all, and stranger that went by
some Of the nicknames~ would GER
.ainly be in for some disappointment
to say nothing about the dangers of
physical ,violents.
Like for inst, you take Boston.
which they call the Hub" Well, the
Hub means the center of things.
Well, suppose they was a foreigner
that come over here to go in busi-
ness and his business was the kind
that he would want it located in the
center of. the United States.
Well. suppose he, heard somebody
speak of Boston as the Hub, why he
would say that is the place for me to
locate my business and he would go
to Boston and locate his business and
he would hear about a prospective
buy some of his stuff ie he would
send out salesman with some SAM
pies So he would call in one tf his
salesmans and say:
Il want you tO"run over to San
Jiago and call .on Mr.. So-ald-So, and
hvro IS s. for~expense money"
II the salesman was he blooded
red American h. would go through
his employer for a firs Down.
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,0R we will say, for example, mat
~ they was magazine that said to
one of it's. stan writer's We want a
article wrote up about forest fires and
how to fight them and etc, and you
are elected to write same.
Well, the man would say where
will I go and they would tell him to
go somewheres they was libel to be
forest fires. So maybe he would be
reading the sporting page and he
would read about iris Speaker ex-
pectinE to- win another pennant for
the Forest. City, and he would ask
somebody what city was that they
would tell him Cleyeland.
In our next chapter we find our
special writer having arrived in
Cleveland in woodsman's sarbs walk
ing up. Euclid avenue in search OF
some of the dense forests from whence
the city derives its nom de plume.
Or picture stranger happening to
light in Minneapolis and he encoun.
ters = friendly citizen: and gets in
converhatioi with same and during
the conversation. the stranger says:
.".Why Is it that, they. call Mime
apolis .ande st. Paul the Twin Cities!
Is It jt-because. they are 50 much alike?
The+stranSer would not need to re-
serve no. Pullman for his. trip home
as he would go by express.
Or take Los Angeles which is called
the, City Of Angels, but as far as
been able to learn, the people there
oehavex just. like any where's else and
they's as many murders as any other
place except maybe New Jersey.
And how about the Cream City
Milwaukee? Well the stun they give
you for your, coffee amt no thicker
than what you get in Omaha.
Or any one of the Queen Cities like