Show FORMAL Drummer Rails at Prevailing Rules of Etiquette I Sees Ideal Condition of AffaIrs Affairs Where Everybody Knows Everybody Else by His First Name Name Asks Asks ft Why Be a aIts i Strangers Its a n cold formal formal world we Il live e In remarked the drummer as he Inspected Inspect ed the souvenir on the rack and something should be done about It ft I must ha have e somebody to talk to somebody to listen to me especially And sometimes that one Is hard to find I cannot according to the rules of ot etiquette as now Interpreted walk up to the first man I meet and engage him In an engrossing con conversation I 1 Iam Iam am expected to pass him up until some friend of his or mine performs the ceremony of Mr Ir Jones meet Mr lr Jinks I wont won't stand on it or for it It If there is no one around to Introduce me Ill I'll do the job m myself When you ou know how it becomes become a very ery easy matter And you w will Ill find the other person I is usually as glad to meet you ou as you OU are areto areto areto to meet him So why be strangers After all this country countr Is a very small place Just a little over a hundred hundred hun dred million of us If we were a congenial congenial con can genial race ev everybody r body should know ever everybody body else by his first name Is there anything sadder than the heart of a New Yorker or a Chicagoan walkIng walkIng walking walk- walk Ing down the streets of Los Angeles and knowing nobody I And ClAnd a man who knows alt the cobblestones cobblestones cobblestones cob cob- on Market Marlet street in Frisco can die of loneliness on Broadway for all his fellow man cares cafes The man who comes from the country the tall grass the big woods is not so formal as his city brother I was on a n street car carthe carthe carthe the other day and one of the other passengers was a soil tiller When he got to his corner he turned around and said Wai Wal good good-by everybody Did bid it ta til e My friends ever everybody In that car put on a broad smile The sunny intimacy of the 01 old 1 man warmed the cockles In ever every heart A woman sitting next to me who had looked as cold an and 1 distant as us the top of Pikes Pike's peak from Denver turned to me and said he lie a n. dear old soul A perfectly strange man across the aisle came over and und asked me for the time by m my watch I am am positive that If f that neighborly rube hadn't broken the ice lee that strange man would never have bave felt free enough to make his re re- re- re quest If lie he hn had 1 asked for the loan of a five I would have passed it to him himon himon himon on the spot I felt love with the world When I left the car at my hotel corner cornel I was myself Impelled to bid those other people a fond adieu They would have been put in a more cheerfull cheerfull cheerfull cheer- cheer full frame of mind and if perchance 1 ever met one of them again in some distant land they would have accepted me as an old friend And that's one thing my ray s system stem requires I must have Ye some one to talk to some one to listen t to me If lilt you were married man your problem would be solved said the girl at the cigar stand It would not replied the drummer drum drum- drummer mer sa liy y Im Iru on the road all the time and dont don't make enough to to- carry a wife with me |