The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-26
MONEY TALKS IN CITIES
JOHNNY DUMPER DISCOVERS.
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list on sum paper here, ast me where
I'd tended school ennyhow,
scd I'd studded shorthand and
typcwritting at n Omaha business col
lcge and | Cud rite Now Is the time
for all good men to cum to the aid of
bill tart" at the rate of 100 words "A
minnit If | didcnt haf to stop to put
capital letters on Bill Taft, or | Cud
make "a words n minnit and put In
all caps.
He asst me why Civ up typewriter
for drawing and | sed 1t was bccaus
got so ! Cud rite SO much Eastern
cud spell He went on about the
room saying sumthing under his mus
tash about the inaddyQuasy of the
American publicll school sistem as APP
plide to spelling
I'll bet itll be long time before
ever get emmy money for drawing.
There's little foller h,re, a rellashun
of the he'd man that's bin drawing
ever sins he was kid and its only
onct in a while that he ever gets
ennything into the papers. He got
little funny pickture into the Chi
cago Daily News a few days ago that
he had bin wurking on for too weeks
and had drawd it sixteen times to get
it rite and when he did get it in he
only got n dollar and quarter for it.
We had leckture the luther morn
ing about There's always room at
the top" and I've resolvd that's the
only place I'm going to stop at He
scd the lower rungs of the ladder of
art as well as all uther ladders was
so Crouded with aspirunts that the
outlook mCnny times lOOkt hopeless,
but that the hicr one got the less com
pctishun one found until when the
top of the ladder was TcoChCd you "ud
count all that was there on your fin
gers He scd sum of the higher padc
cartoonists like HomeE Davenport
got fame more for their ideas than
for their drawing, and that If We want
ed to be successful we'd haf to get
sum ideas into our heds I'll bet II
that's what counts I'VE got as good a
show as sum of the best drawers in
school, for there's sum felo"s here
that don't seem to know tWiet about
tInNJnllS Dul just NbDDN NE.
asst sumboddy who the leckturer
was and they sed he was a artist that
had failed in business and Cudnt make
living and so he had went to leck-
turing on art and was making quite
success.
Aren't we bin having a nawful spell
of wether? Lots of fellers and girls
know it ant fashunable to keep warm
in Chicago, and hardly ennybody that
thinks they're much ever wares over
shoes or ear-mufs.
The fcller that sits next to me ses
we wont get our laundery dun for
while Caus most of the Chinks was
blowd full of snow and what wasent
has gone on strike till the plum
mers get the pipes thawd out so they
can hit them. As one Chink sed, mo
wurky, no hitty de pipey'
There's plummer's boy here that
ses Its a Mill wind that blows no.
boldly no good" He ses his dads
made over ninety dollars already this
week Gee. Aint that a making
money? | asst him why he wasent fol-
ering his dads footsteps and lerning
plumming, and he sed he had intended
to but his Sabbeth school teacher had
told him that "Illgotten gaines profit
nobody" and "a cleer conshuns is
better'n CRATE riches" He sed he'd
like the money part of it all rite but
he was too conshenshus to be a sue
cesful plummer so he was goinG to
learn art and go over to YOurip ana
copy sum of the CRATE master pieces
and bury them sumwhere for week
or too and then dig T. EN- up and sell
them to rich Americans for ORIGINALS
and make all kinds of money.
Aint this a queer wurld?
Yours,
Johnny Bumper.