Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-02-21 | Page 10 | Killed by Kissers.

KILLED BY Y Down in the great Seat cf city of ot NewYork New York STork an office bo boy bos' big as a 0 man announced announced an- an an an- flounced to the rest of ot the force that he had attained a now neW birthday And the stenographers and copyists of tho the female line lne surrounded him and tried to kiss him In congratulation Tho Thu boy fought them an as long as a he lie could and when ho he could defend his lips hips no longer he fell tel down and stabbed with wih a paper knife And he died That in a New York office It I shows the peril peri in which men place themselves In New Yok York It I shows to wh wIt it extremes the tho w men of ot that great commercial center are driven for the tho innocent expression expresIon of t congratulations And It shows how un unsafe atc it Is for a man nan there to an announce announce an- an flounce oven even the tho smallest thing connected connected connected con con- with wih his hla private affairs No N. N. N date as to a ago o or fortune no l light light- ht- ht I some hopes no remembrance of disaster die dis aster aster nothing but percentages es and subway tickets may with safety makeup make malo makeup up the subject of ot New ew York converse How better beter is life Ute in the wi wide do and wondrous West est I Here tho the office boy would have havo told the girls of or his birthday birthday birth birth- da day or any other bit of good fortune and dared them to kiss him And they wouldn't have perle his hla life for tor a 1 minute Ho lie le could coul have probably probably abl ably he hen been n congratulated by some somo ono of oC them or b by numbers of them singly and In proper and seemly seclusion But the spectacle of a a de desperate crowd of ot young women driving a n man to his death for Cor kisses that never nevor could coult have place I In so fortunato a a country as Uth Utah