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Show Then and Now - "Fifteen of my first active year.-were year.-were spent ' in Kansas," said W. F Jensen, now residing In Chicago "and, like all Kansans, I have the fondest feelings for the dear old state. "Thirty years ago Kansas wa? happy but rated poor. It still is hap py but Is now eating cantaloupe for breakfast. "I recollect a business trip con .lected with the early creamery o velopment, in the year 1900, to a little town in western Kansas, where I stayed at the best hotel. On entering en-tering the dining room for breakfast I was rwrt by a prim little lady who asked ine where I. wanted to sit ni the 25-cent table or at the 50-ceni table. This aroused iuy curiosity and I asked what the difference was, and received the answer that, at the 50-cent 50-cent table I would get an orange and at the 25-cent table I would not r stl.l remember sitting down nt the 2T-cent table and enjoying a brent fast of oatmeal, ham and eggs, cakes ind coffee. Chicago Post. |