| Show Jh this is way may 01 ea by L LYLE LE SPENCER 0 wet newspaper New paper union V how did benm originate T THE HE bonus checks pal paid out i re bently to our veterans of tho the world war gladdened the heart of many an ex soldier while this bonus was waa undoubtedly undoubted lythe the biggest given by any any c country in the history of the world it was by no beani means the first art the w word ord bonus comes from latin and means good it hasal has always been used in english in the sense of gift ingream in great britain it was first applied to dividends distributed tri buted from the surplus of life insurance 1 urance I companies in america Americ ait it was used in the industrial and commercial world to designate a payment above that expected whether anettra an extra dividend to stockholders or an extra pay check to wage earners ea mers later the term tewa was s applied to sums of m money eniy given to men as an inducement to Jo loin inthe the army and only since the world war has it been given to compensation for army or naval service the original veterans adgustin ad adjustment justin en t compensation granted to all world war veterans by congress in 1824 1924 was a bonus in the form of a paid up endow me ment A insurance policy while never called that before the practice of giving bonuses for military service viii is in an old one even george washington received apar a parcel of land and a sum ourn of money from the state of virginia for ahls his pa part in the e Fren french chand and indian inglai w war ar and abraham lincoln was given a piece of land in iowa for his services in uie he blackhawk war except for his home in springfield illinois it was about the only real estate he ever owned i the first envelopes I 1 A HUNDRED years ago the bustness business of posting letters lette rs was an expensive and difficult job in the first place there was no such th thing in g as an adhesive postage stamp and even worse there was no such thing as a modem envelope in those days when travel was slow and hazardous relatively few people ever had bad occasion to write letters the few who did wrote their messages on one side of the note paper only and nd carefully wrapped it up so that none of the writing showed then they either paid the postman directly or sent it postage dolle collect ct the reason envelopes were so seldom used was because an extra charge was mide made for an any y paper aper p no matter how small when wrapped up in another A few wrappers that might b be e called envelopes had been used in france early in the seventeenth century and a few were sold in england as early as 1830 but the first am american e rican to manu tace envelopes was named Pi Pl erbun erhun who in 1839 began to sell them in his pulton fulton street Stat stationery stationers Station Joners ers shop in new york city the united states mall mail service has come a long way since those early times the pony express which numbered buffalo bill among its brave riders was a thrilling if 11 brief interlude the first time mail was carried on a railroad train marked the beginning of a new era in comm communication and the way that our modernized uncle sam imm de livers literally billions of pieces of mail annually with efficiency and speed sneed is a tribute to our unexcelled form of government 0 rigin origin of chinese laundrymen THE HE chinese are admittedly the best hand laundrymen in the world no american town would be complete without it its chink and his hole in the wall baldry laundry the chinese first got into the clothes washing business through a queer let set of circumstances bick back inthe in the years around the california gold rush of 1849 miners on the west coast found they were unable to hire people to do menial labor tor for love or money everyone had corne come to california to dig tor for gold and nothing else so desperate did their straits become that many sent their clothes all the way to hawaii and even even to china to have them wished was lied this was chinas cainas original contact with the american laundry bust business neis when the first trans transcontinental railway line we wa being built many years later whole shiploads ship loads of chinese were imported because of their cheapness and industry to work on the road bed after the line was finished many chinese wanted to remain ind and maka mak their fortune in the new landof land of opportunity 1 but they quickly found that due to temperamental and language barr barriers lers the doors ot of most businesses he ases were closed tothie to them thim they had to find a business requiring little litle capitalor capital or education and where they would be their 6 own w ri masters and hive have few contacts contacts with Wester westerners heri the laundry business ras aso one neof of the few which met these requirements many of the original chinese and their descendants have become to do iri in it |
