The Nome nugget., 1922-11-11
SOME .SAYINGs~ SOLOMON FORGOT 10 SAY-ON
 ALASKA AND POLITICS
Said by ANNA PRADA. (Mrs. Herbert Greenber.)

any PsAASAFAO RSAsASoA AASt1V40 | of Alaska so far as have been able to make out are only two. the ''sourdoughs" and "cheechakas," and they all vote the straight ticket. if they can get 1t straight, if not they vote 1t any old way. However, politics is the thing that gets you here. It's the live Hest berg in the world on election day, in fact, the "liveliness' starts long before that day and you just can't tell who starts it. nor where it started from, but you soon know when they're of.
 Here's what happens; every thing and everybody gets busy, all the jitneys turn out. painted with 1 cheese-cloth in the latest color. l with the latest portraits of the can didates, that resemble something the candidates didn't sit for, and wouldn't 'fess up to, on any other day. All this is done to advertise the fact that you are to vote for 1t whether you're an art critic or not. l Then, regardless of your water supply, the only men permitted on the water wagons are the candi- dates and they've forgotten your name and where you live already.
 The banks close, the shops try to land the only movie in town wouldn't turn a reel. while every thing else is closed tight except what's bottled.
 But of all the days in the year. this is the woman's day in Alaska, the day when her voice is heard whether you like it or not-for this is the day. that, (after hubby has overlooked the p ckets), she can wear the pants. and then she's ready for her part of the campaign.
 Away she tramps up to her belt in snow and down she skids over the frozen sleet. to make stump speeches on icebergs, post placards cn glaciers and to put buttons on the backs of natives, while all the does are let loose to howl for their favorite parties. and away flows the moonshine, the only thing left to How like water.
 But now that it's all over, what interests me is not those who have been elected, for by the time they will have decided that they'll have forgotten the winning candidate, but as to whether the sourdoughs or cheechakas did the electing they have forgotten your name already.
 In Nome, there is very little gos- sip, because every body talks. An optimist is man who tries to grow tomatoes in Alaska. A pessimist is fellow who don't be- lieve in your claims; and one has to come to Alaska to find both. Judging from the number of times the electric lights were turn ed off in the last week. somebody in this dry territory is liberal. I wonder where he goes for it ?
 A Squaw-man is a man who didn't re-make his wife. she's squaw be- fore he marries her.
 One don't need the good stuff" in Alaska to make fellow feel like a millionaire, all he needs is the hallucination that his claim has the million in it and 1t gives him the same wonderful feeling.
 ! What do you think of old King Solomon. after a thousand women were good enough to be his wives, the old "sourdough" turns around and says; that not one out of the thousand was worthy that's grati- tude for you. Think of it. man with a thousand wives and not sat isfied; there was something wrong with Solomon.
 When in Nome do as the 'Nomens do; but don't over do it.
 They say, that men hunt here