Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1913 — Panhandling De Luxe Newest Blow to Tradition [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Panhandling De Luxe Newest Blow to Tradition

PITTSBURGH, PA.—"Panhandling de Luxe” is the title of a brochure a certain ambitious young reporter is seriously considering publishing. At the same time, the student of sociology or the uplift-of-humanity Enthusiast might have received a terrible wallop to some of his cherished illusions had he been strolling downtown last night Here’s the way it happened: The reporter felt a discreet touch on the shoulder as he dashed madly into > downtown hotel at the entrance with the wicker door, under which people’s feet can be seen. "Say, bo, me and me pard just got in on a freight from Cleveland. We ain’t had a bite tu eat and we’re waitin’ till the railroad yards open up tu get us a job.” "What the —say, where’d you collect that make-up?” demanded the astonished molder of public opinion. “You’re no bum; you just stepped out of that taxi and haven’t wakened up from the night before at the club yet" “Now, say, bo,” defended the youth. “Yu see, we ain’t no dirty bums. We

travel clean, see? Me and me sparring pardner just come out o’ that swell boardin’ » factory there, get it? I says to a bell-hop, I says, we got to unwrap this package of soot. So he leads us to the washroom, we strips down to the belt and goes through the motions just like them guys that’s playin’ four bucks a day for a brass bed and a hunting scene on the wall. "See this here halt cut?” continued the lecturer. He exhibited a nicely trimmed dome, correctly moulded about the ears. “We gets that in the free chairs in the College for Barbers in Cleveland. Before the reporter was led out of his third paroxysm he was gently told that he had delivered up 17 cents, his police badge, and two theater passes.