Show ci city ILY wa rube be shows curiosity Curi y WONDER WHAT clr CHICAGO when the gentleman C 1 from the rural districts arrives in tho the city and gazes in amazement at the high buildings and looks with awe into the subway ho h 0 is immediately set s e t down as a rube with hayseed in his hair and given the merry laugh by tile the wise city guy who will then proceed down tile the street and stand for half an hour on oil a curbstone to watch an automobilist inflate a punctured tiro tire or proceed to murder a perfectly perfecta y good quarter of an hour watching a I 1 cook browning the wheat s in a restaurant window but for absolutely pure and undiluted inquisitiveness youve got to aa hand it to tile the city man for lie ho is right there with tile the research stuff ho he will poke PO he fun at ills his wife for her knowledge C on the subject oi 01 the neighbors doings but he can show more genuine interest in absolutely nothing no tiling that you can imagine and nothing out olit of the run of things in city streets Is too small to claim his attention ile he will tot let his dinner get cold any day to watch a man sitting on tho the head of a fallen horse or to stare into a hardware store window where some demonstrator is busily engaged whittling on a stick of cordwood with a razor he will send the shoestring vender on ills his way before lie he has got his foot fairly inside we the threshold of the office door but will stop upon the street at any time to listen to the remarks of another vender who is wildly demonstrating a patent collar button he will turn himself inside out to get a glimpse of a picture carried under the arm of some citizen will which ch picture lie he would never glance at w were ere it hung bung in some prominent place many abany a visitor to a city has been badly stung by the simple tastes of the natives in the matter of something exciting A stranger coming up one of the main thoroughfares ai I 1 seeing a crowd of a couple of hundred people naturally looks for some sort of a catastrophe and after working h his 1 s way to the center of the crowd to see them gazing 0 at some newfangled new motor cycle o or r watching batchin a laborer ascending ceil ding from a manhole is naturally chagrined |