DANCF NEXT SUNDAY IF COAL BOAT COMES:
If the Queen ne::t Sunday night brings a load of cqeLJ, an impromptus
dance will be arranged, similar to that given last week, in the Recreation Hall
Building 14, this post »
CHILKOOT POLK CAMPING AT MUD LAY:
Jimmie and Mrs* Kiine, Sgte and Mrs* Pcwell and family, and Mrs*
Frank Sorrels and her ehildren, are camping at Mud Eay*
The DAILY ALASKaN was sol- recently to M-.. William L* Paul of Ket-b
ikan* Mr . Paul is publisher of the “Alaska Msherran*’ t ft he® previously had no
printing plant. It is not known whether he interdo to continue publication of
the Alaskan or move the plant to Ketchikan* If the 'latter, it will leave The
Chilkoot Post the only paper published c:i Lynn Canal#
GIRLS ARE TOURING WHILE MEN FOLKS TOIL:
That the American woman has ail the best of it is shown by the -pas
senger lists of the steamers visiting the North this season, WL3!e the deadlier
sex enjoys the cook breezes and tumultuous scenery of the Alaskan fjords, their
husbands, brothers, and sweethearts remain at home in the midsummer heat, toil
ing and moiling. At least male 'tourists (aside from anile gentlemen of the re
tired class) are certainly rare birds hereabouts* When the Admiral Rodgers
docked last week at this Post, bevies of beautiful maidens flocked ashore t'o” at
tend the dance given by the foat to celebrate the arrival of our winter’s coal
supply. ' - Much to the delight of the troopers here, only six young men were
on the boat, so the military shieks had it all their own way. The girls admitted
that they had been longing,, all the way from Seattle, for an innocent little
flirtation* It is rumored that so many lonesome ladies had flocked around the
ships officers on the way up that all of those gentlemen had publicly declared
they were married men*
Nor was the Ai©»meda in any better condition as to Adams for the tour
ing Eves. The Stroller of Jnneau, whose venerable years have not dulled his
keen perceptions as to maxters pertaining to the eternal feminine, counted 180
females to 20 males of the genus homo sapiens on the passenger listcof the Alarne
on its last trip. We take it The Stroller hied himself straightway to the dock *
"look em over" for he gives a most authentic discr.ipfcion of the state of affairs
The twenty males, he states, were ’‘mostly old men who required assist
a?£e in crossing the gang plank. There were three or four young men aboard
” * . looked like fellows who would congregate on the upper deck with all-day
suckers in their mouths - regular mill: toast bcys<
ivna prexxy women go xne numuer oi j.oj- stuxeiy matrons wnose very
carriage and demeanor exuded evidences oi wealth; school teachers who knew to a
centy what they had started with* what they had spent, what they had left and wha
they * . . intended to have Reft; sterna graph era and office girls to whom tl ^
t intinabulat ions of xhe dining room gong was sweet music and who shuddered ever’
time they thought of crackers and a glass of milk served on -the arm chair duS a
White Lunch; school girls who g.iggled? carried powder puffs in their hands and
didn’t care whose toes they dtooil on? but all growling because there were no boys
to dance with or to feed them chocolates behind the smokestack*
"Jast what has become or bhe men this year is a question* • *.It may tu
the male of the species is too busy in affairs o? life *— oil or bootlegging
to take the time necessary for a vacation, bub it is a cinch that he is not amonc
those present* It is also a cinch that he does not know whafc he is missing or
he would be among those present
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