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Show The surest indication that summer is on the Avane is that the new football rules are out. Wanted Just a month or so of Indian summer so the full coal bin will look better in the early days of spring. The efforts of the saloon men should be to placate pla-cate the public opposition to their business by obey- Jk ing the laws concerning closing their places of bus- " f iness at night and on Sunday. V It would be interesting to know where the men f ! t stayed during the period the Salt Lake saloons Avere closed at midnight and on Sunday. .When the enforcement en-forcement of the laAV became unpopular among the politicians, they all found their Avay back to their old haunts. Prohibition and hanging are the extreme pen- 1 alties of the law. W , The season for the idiot who rocks the boat will soon be closed. Fashionable women of Chicago, it is said, have taken to poker as a means of recreation. One more masculine prerogative filched. One commendable thing about the Cook-Peary-controversy, at least, is that the public gets a respite from Harry K. Thaw. Monkey dinners are under the ban of Newport's best society. Fortunate monkeys! The Connecticut legislature recently repealed laws governing Sunday closing which had been in effect since 1722. Those laws were old enough to have been forgotten, but the Salt Lake liquor ordinance ordi-nance is hardly a year odd yet, and it seems to have ' J been forgotten already. V1 4 A former Salt Laker Avho recently moved to Og- ft den told us this week that "big salmon-colored can- taloupcs have been selling in Ogden for 20 cents a dozen big ones." A poor man ought to be able to eat in Ogden. Chicago men Avere permitted by proclamation of Mayor Busse to wear their straw hats until September Septem-ber 15, on account of the heat of the lake city. Evidently Evi-dently there are a few cx-Chicagoans in Salt Lake. I The liquor dealer? and saloon men in convention conven-tion assembled solemnly resolve that they believe in law enforcement and that saloonists who do not obey the law should be forced out of business, yet whe!i the election comes on their virtuous resolutions are ' forgotten or don't any of the Salt Lake saloon men belong to those virtuous organizations ? ' . |