Boone County Recorder . ur-ing the rest of the occasion I hungfrom a strap and swung out wild andfree, like a Japanese flag on a windyday. Some of the New York street carslead a double life, because they areused all winter to act the part of arefrigerator. It is a cold day when we cannotfind it colder in the street cars. In Germany we find Germans in thecars, but in America we find germs. That is because this country Isyoung and Impulsive. The germs In the Btreet cars areextremely sociable, and will follow astranger airthe way home. ~ Often .while riding in the New Yorkstreet care I hav^ felt
Boone County Recorder . ur-ing the rest of the occasion I hungfrom a strap and swung out wild andfree, like a Japanese flag on a windyday. Some of the New York street carslead a double life, because they areused all winter to act the part of arefrigerator. It is a cold day when we cannotfind it colder in the street cars. In Germany we find Germans in thecars, but in America we find germs. That is because this country Isyoung and Impulsive. The germs In the Btreet cars areextremely sociable, and will follow astranger airthe way home. ~ Often .while riding in the New Yorkstreet care I hav^ felt a germ rubbingagainst my ankle like a kitten, but,being a gentleman, I did not reachdown and kick it away because thelaw says we must not be disrespectfulto the dumb brutes of the field. Many of those street cars are builton the same general plan as a can ofcondensed milk. The only difference is that thestreet cars have a sour taste, like alemon-squeezer. When you get out you cannot getin, and when you get in you cannot. - The Germs Will Follow » Stranger-Atfrthe Way, Home. get out, because you hate to disturbthe strange gentleman that is usingyour knee to lean over. Between the seats there is a spaceof two feet, but in that space you willalways find four feet, and their own-ers, unless one of them happens tohave awoodes leg: ~ ~~ Under .ordinary circumstances fourhM> twb •wout go, but the squeeaer_cars defy the lawB of gravitation. A Bqueezer conductor can put 26,into nine and still have four to carry. The ladies of New York have start-ed a ra hellion against the squeezercars, but every time they start it theconductor pulls the bell, and leavestheTebellious standing on the corner. We are yery nervous and carelesspeople in New York. To prove howcareless we are, I will .cite the factthat Manhattan island is called after acocktail. This nervousness ia out undoing because we are always in such a harryto get somewhere that we wouldrather take the first car and getsqueezed Int
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