Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1914 — As Hard to Negotiate as a “Slide for Life” [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

As Hard to Negotiate as a “Slide for Life”

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—The crossing at Pennsylvania and Washington streets was a slide for life as interesting to negotiate as the greased pole at a county fair. But this brother was of different ilk. He wore a pair of spats on

big tan shoes, surmounted by a foot of gray striped trouser legs before the tailored edge of his fur collared overcoat shut off the view of .the stripes. A roll brimmed, quarter bow derby kept in the aroma of bay rum that held the sandy hair in plastered perfection, and curves as proper as the curved handle of his hickory-rough walking stick. His companion was human. "Entirely unnecessary, entirely so. If persons watched their footing and

stopped walking about like chickens they would not fall in the street in this foolish way. To be sure it is extremely slippery, but falling is only a demonstration that they have not proper control of their equilibrium. Nothing but a matter of care, I say, nothing mo ’’ Sllsch-ch, plopp—splatter, and the .immaculate was down in the center of the North Pennsylvania street car track and about two inches of melting snow. Pride had gone before the fall and the slippery car rail had lacked the politeness of the friend in not opposing his opinion. But the friend was human. "As you were saying,’* he remarked, as he helped his friend to his feet, trying to overlook the fall —but the Immaculate one only glared.