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Show FULLY UP WITH Thl TIMES. Oklahoma City Surprised Narrow. Minded New Yorker. Oklahoma nmnzes an easterner. Tho wide, asphalted streets, the plate bIobs fronts of department stores, tho clean sidewalks, tho woll-dresBcd, unhurried shoppers, tho finish, tho metropolltnn nlr you find In Oklnhomn City, for ox-ample, ox-ample, seem marvels to find In n territory ter-ritory only 17 years old. Hut do not say so. A Now Yorker who went thoro on business complained that fato was thrusting him Into a wilderness, and his Oklahoma associates could not reassure re-assure him. Hut coming down to breakfast tho first morning, at his hotel In Oklahoma City, ho stared around lu wonder as ho entered tho dining-room. "This," ho exclnlmed, "this is Oklahoma!! Okla-homa!! Why, do you know?" confidentially, confi-dentially, "I even found a porcelain bathtub In my room." "Well," said an Oklnhoman, drily, "don't you havo those In New York?" |