The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-06
DER GERMAN CoBBLER.
He Adopts Another Get-Rich-Q Quick
Scheme.

Hans, can't make oudt how she
vhas,' says dot Little Tailor one day,
ash he comes into my shop and finds
dot don't have some work to do.
She vhas dot nOpody brings in some
shoes to mend,'' says.
But Why not? If you don't hat
some peesness you must make pees-
ness Don't you read aboudt dot Stand
ard OIL company"
How vhas she?''
Why, When peesness vhas poor und
no sales it shumps der price of kero-
sene oil to Ii cents a gallon und der
peoples rush to get it. If you don't
| do something's you vhaS a bankrupt
''Vhell, What shall do?''
BE a funny man. Put a big sign in
Ger window dot some shoke vhas made
/ here While you wait, und When a GUS
toner comes in laugh ash hard ash you
can"
But tried dot once und people said
vhas a FOOL
| -Um! It vhas no use to waste time
on you You should work in a sawmill.
make $4,000 a year by studying der
peoples und bringing oudt something's
new all der time. If you can't take adj
vice den you shall go by der pOorhouSe
und eat beans. When I comes by dis
place in three days you Vhas a busted
man und der door nailed oop."
For two hours after dot Little Tailor
goes AWAY I sit down und smoke my
pipe und think By und by I got her.
If der people don't like some SMOKES
While dey. wait, mebbe dey like some
| ty. I paint me a sign und hang her
COP in der window. She reads:
mo SMOKES vhas here. NOBODY shall
laugh. Dot smile has come off. If You
WANTS dignity come in. If you don't
stay oudt."
Dot night sit up for four hours be-
fore looking glass und be some dig
nifty, und When l vhas done nopody
Il
breakfast eaten next morning before
man come into my shop nit a pair of
shoes to men, WAS dignity in one
second. I makes him a bow und rolls
oop my eyes.
.svhas you some dignity?" he asks.
"Des same,'' I says.
Don't you laugh nor shoke?"
NO.
IF you see somepody fall down on
der sidewalk NIT great flop don't you
smile?'
ION dot contrary, shed tears"
Say, oldt man, you Will do I hat
been looking for dignity for more ash
! ten years, und now, by George, if I
don't patronize her. Here vhas a. pair
| of shoes, und dis afternoon 1 bring in
/ two or three more. Shust keep do face
on you und your fortune vhas made.
| You don't know What a relief it vhas
/ to find a solemn man. Keep it oop und
peg AWAY und you shall wear dia-
molIds.''
Der next caller vhas a fat womans.
She reads my sign und comes in nit
grin on her face. She looks at me for
fife minutes und den says:
"Cobbler, vhas dis dignity peesness
true?"
! Don't you tell nopody some more
funny shoke aboudt Shermany?"
Not one leetle piece of a shoke."
zone day When 1 comes in here you
! tells me some beautiful poetry, und
remember her all der time. She goes:
g 'Dere vhas a young man in Berlin,
/ Who makes love to a girl NIT grin;
But when de question he popped,
Dot Teller vhas Topped,
Und he neffer Will do it again.
Dot vhas der poetry, Mr. Cobbler,
und I vhas much Obliged II you repeat
Not on your life. I make oop dot
poetry when I don't hat some dignity.
Now die first"
.'I guess I like you all der better for it.
vhas giggling all der time myself, una
7 get tired of it. If we don't hat some
dignity dis country vhas nowhere in
one week. While eaferypody else vhas
on der giggle Shorge Washington goes
at it und has some dignity und safes
| der PEOPLES You vhas right, Mr.. COB
! bier. und I send my boy oafer NIT three
nairs of shoes. Keep dot face on you,
efen if it sours all der milk in town.
Der third caller vhas man-some
deacons in a church. His face Was ASH
solemn ash a big lump OF coal, ana you
can see dot he neffer smiles in his life.
.sCobbler," he begins, Il hat read dot
sign in your window. Was she true"
"She vhas.''
s.Haf you seen der vanity of making
SMOKES und come to be dignity?
II hat. If somepody gifts me one
boonered dollars don't make a smoke.
If go along der street und see a man nan
put a hot pipe into his pocket una set
ooattails afire ] don L smile.
Dot vhas good-werry good For
ten years I hat looked for a man OF
dignity-for a man fitout smile-und
7 yhas glad if I find him at last. truly,
dis vhas a world of sorrow.
'She vhas.'
"Und tears und lamentations"
we vhas alive today-tomorrow
Where vhas we?"
Il see der point
sC,ohbIer here vhas my Sunday
sboeS to haf some cement patches on,
md pooty queek send you some more
more. Dere shall be no SMOKES ASH
YOU put on der patches Dere shall De
no smiles ash you drife in der pegs II
vhas a solemn occasion, und you must
feel r. You vhas a green bay tree una
So vhas I. We cobble some shoes 10
dav. und next week pour! we WAS
snnffed out und forgotten
Doo+v meek a little widow Womans
raads nv sign and den runs home Tor
a pair of shoes und comes nack. Sne
yhas an o1dt customer, put IN oer Iase
six Ky weeks she carries all her work s.. t to
~ md laughing when she comes to
me before, but now she. vhas solemn
md don't efen hat a grin.
sFVhas you Hans" she asks, ASH she
looks at me-
"Hans. der Cobbler, who used to
cobbIe my shoes"
''I vhas dot mans
o,,s+o,11 avbav from you? It vhas be-
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