Show att r 1 ri tito electric light EDITOR ALM it lias has been baid said that there is 13 an eternal fit less in ill tiling things and to tho tile observer r of the t I 1 ic relation of things to each ench other the truth of tile saying is often apparent the tito electric light for in stance SL furnishes an illustration ill when the moon is full and bright sits as a queen reigning over her stars that shine forth forill in ill all their splendor this bright little electric light appear appears dancil dancing and flickering at the little stars as tie doth tho the bright eyed pale faced little maiden danco and cast her coquettish winks at her juvenile lover in a mg manner inner clearly indicating that the moon and stars and the dainty little electric were all made to shine together on oil the other hand when the night is dark and wet and the mist and fog stalk forth as of beeter night dig 1 t determined to make tho the aged and the young the decrepit and the buxom trail through tho the slush and mud in E egyptian darkness at the risk of wading into gutters or tumbling headfo g over some luau inanimate object which b because of its will not yield to the tire kick of misguided mortals as fleetly 11 as doth the fair female flee from ake the foul fangs of the burly black man mail so doth the little street electric electrio skip from the pre presence senco odthe of the blackening mist and fog and climbing the tile carbon wend its way over the wires back to the tho com banys engine house where it can have tho the protection of tit com pans employees and rest cozily upon the lap of lullaby until the moon and stars and the dainty little darling can all come out and shine again together there arc are men base enough to insinuate that we do not need nee the street lights when tire moon and stars are shining so much as we do when the night i is black with darkness and in view of the fact that their constitution is u too frail bojus to justify them in grappling with the mist and fog incident to a winters night in these western wilds suggest that the city F fathers ought not to squander the public funds in such freaks of frivolity but fathers are permitted aye to be indulgent to their children and when wo we come to contemplate the number of doting dads that have squandered their fortunes upon their giddy girls what parent would not indulge the cites paternal ancestors in the tile sum suin of per er month with which to humor xe the little electric thelroy om pany like it th elight shines when the moon shines and why not humor the tile little thing just for the fun of the tile thing WHY WILY NOT CITY dec 5 1883 |