The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-11-10


and here II is near l O'Clock. What?
/ The carburetter got entangled with the
1 tonneaul 1 don't believe word Of Il.
I And, anyhow. you know that l don't
/ know what carburetter is. And here
/ I've been sitting up and waiting and
! waiting for you 10 come and tell me,
/ as you always do on Saturday nights.
the news OF the week ! want 20
/ know something about all these poll
/ tics and ne elections and 50 on. The
/ children! They've been asleep Tor
\ hours / had the hardest sort Of a
/ time with Emily tonight. I sent her
| in 20 take her Saturday bath By her
/ self and when 1 went in / found her
/ scrubbing her nails with your tooth
1 brush. and just as I was scOldlng her
she slipped on the soap and fell down.
humping her head on the faucet Lit
/ tie Haley just screamed and Emily
swallowed a whole lot of soapy water.
/ It's lucky Il wasn't kitchen soap or
/ the I've might have hurt her insides.
/ As Il IS. l don't think she'll eat much
breakfast in the mOrning-and that's
/ lucky with the price of victuals up as
high as II is.
Say, Job. l see they're going 10 give
another dinner TO Mr.. Bryan. I'm aw-
/ fully curious 20 know whether they'll
serve cocktails at the banquet. II they
do that may be the one thing thatu
kin AR Bryan's Presidential boom.
And. talking about politics. see that
Cleveland wouldn't have Mr.. Burton for
mayor. and people are saying that this
shows that Mr.. Roosevelt isn't as popu-
lar as he was. No wonder II took
him two weeks 70 Kill one little bear.
If a mans going 20 be a hero he's got
to be heroh all the time. Even Mr.
Hobson and John Wesley Gaines amt
50 much Of heroes nowadays,
The papers say that London IS glad
that Mr.. Hearst was beaten in New
York. II that makes the Londoners
happy they must have had good time
ever since Mr. Hearst got into politics
that Is. except that time he was elected
70 Congress. Poor NJ. Hearst I'm
real sorry for him-that is. 1 would be
If he didn't have so much money to
| spend foolishly. And. talking about
politics. I wonder why Il was that
President Roosevelt went down TO
oyster Bay just 10 vote over a Chinese
laundry. Do YOU suppose he did Il Just
20 emphasize his longing for a clean
ballot? I don't see why he couldn't
have sent his vote by mail. They're
advocating a parcels post nowadays.
and no matter how heavy the votes
were the mails could carry EN-
Did you see. Job. where the Judge
let those Yale students 90 who were
arrested for cheering Dixie" as II a
man hadn't right to cheer anything
he wanted I remember when Sarah
Seagrims husband-she married an
Englishman. you know-went TO
Fourth Of July meeting AT Broad Ripple,
and they played My Country, IT'S Of
Thee" and John Seagrim ne cheered
and applauded. and when they asked
him 10 sing Il he sang God Save Our
Gracious King" and somebody HIT him
with a beer keg. He came home IN a
dreadful mess. He had one eye all
black and blue and his nose had bled
all over HIS new suit. I think Il was a
shame Poor Sarah was so mortified.
She took her husband down and had
him naturalized the next day. II was
a good move for John. cause be got
g for voting the Democratic ticket
next fall
I see that General Elliotts been talk
ing about the difficulty OF recruiting
men for the marine service. And no
wonder, II any one has an improbable
story he's told 70 90 and tell II 10 the
marines, Just as II they had 10 listen
20 things don't believe that the ma
rines are all nature takers. do you?
Why don't they make some of the
members OF the Annanias Club enlist;
it'd do EN- good. I don't know what
! the worlds coming TO. Job. Here's a
famous doctor says that before long
! all human beings VIII be legIess. isn't
that awful, Last week I was telling
|, you about a man who had invented a
secret pocket for trousers. and now It
seems there won't be any need for
trousers ! don't know how you menu
D get along then-won't have any chance
= to kick about things. I can't see that
II what he says comes 70 pass that
itll be such a misfortune. only I wish
D II had have happened before our times.
then we wouldn't have had 10 worry
so much about buying shoes. There
2 was Jane Dabney's cousin. Milt Tot
tenbury. who had his leg cut of in
e sawmiIl at Bloomfield. He thought it
5 was sad misfortune at first. but he
e soon found out that he only had 10
wear out one shoe at a time. He found
81 a man In Davis County who'd lost his
4 left leg; it was the right that Mnt had
/ cut off-and so they formed a shoe
. partnership and one would wear the
Y right and the other left OF a pair OF
2 shoes Only thing was that Milf wore
I number tens and the other man-he'd
( been bitten in the leg by a horse and
= had TO have It amputated-wOre Fights
They used to take turn and turn about
. in buying shoes. so for six months AIilt
would have to wear a tight shoe that
. made corns and the other six months
the other man would have 20 wear
shoe that just wriggled on his foot
4 But it was economy. anyway:
What's that Job? You're sleepy
q That's what comes OF riding in automO-
4 bnes. I wish you were like that boy
I've been reading about tonight while
p you was out gallivanting around. He's
got some new sort OF disease that makes
5 him keep his eyes wide open and ne
= hasn't been 10 sleep for two weeks. II
. you'd get that, job, there might be
= some pleasure in living with you: you
2 old sleepy-headi
II does seem, Job, as II these hard
times about money had caused lot