The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-20


Club, New york.
Dear Dick:
Enclosed find my check for
five hundred, as per wager. Pos
sibly you were within your rights
in protecting your bet in the
manner you chose, but while l do
not wish to be offensive, your re-
porters are darnnably so.
yours,
MAXWELL REED"
From officer Flanagan TO
Mrs. Maggie Flanagan, Erin
Erin Street.
Dear Maggie:
LAS soon as you receive this, go
down to Mac and tell him the
story as l tell YOU hear. Tell him
l was walkin my beat, and I'd
been afther seein Jimmy Alverini
about doin the right thing for
Mac on Monday, at the poles, when
I seen a man hangin suspicious
around this house, which is MIR.
Wilson's, on Ninety-fifth. And,
of coorse, afther chasin' the man
a mile or more, / lose him, which
was not my fault. So l go back
to the Wilson house, and tell them
to be careful about closin up fer
the night, and while I'm standin
in the hall, with all the swelis
around me, sparklin with Jewels,
the board of health sends a man
to lock us all in, because the Jap
that's been waiter has took the
smallpox and gone to the hospitle.
l stood me ground. I SEE, SEE l,
you cant shtop an officer in pur-
suite of his d1ty. l rafuse to be
shut in. Be shure to tell Mac that
$50 here l am, and like to be for
a month. Tell Mac there's -four
votes shut up here, and / can gel
them for him, If he can stop this
monkey business.
Then go over to the Dagc
Church on Webster Avenue and
put a dollar in Saint Anthony
box. He'll see me out of this
scrape, right enough. Do 1t al
once. Now remember, go to Mat
first: maybe you can get the
dollar from him, and mind wha
you tel him.
yours husband,
"TIM FLANAGAN"
From me to mother-MrS
Theodore McNair, Hotel Hamil
ton, Bermuda.
Dearest Mother:
81 hope you will get this before
you read the papers, and wher
you do read them, you are not to
get excited and worried. / am as
well as can be, and a great deal
safer than l ever remember to
have been in my life. We are
quarantined, a lot of us, in Jim
Wilson's house, because his ire
proachable Jap did a very re-
proachable thing-took smallpox
Now read on before you get ex-
cited. His room has been fumi-
gated, and we have been vaccinat-
ed. l am we'll and happy. l can't
be killed in a railway wreck or
smashed when the car skids. I'm
less l drown myself in my bath,
or jump through a window, posi-
lively nothing can happen to me.
So gather up all your maternal
anxieties and cast them to the
Bermuda sharks.
Same Brown is here-see the
papers for 1ist-and IL she cannot
play propriety, Jimm's Aunt Selma
can. In fact, she doesn't play at
it; she works. have telephoned
Lizette for some clothes-enough
for couple of weeks, although
Dallas promises to get us out SOON
err. Now, dear, do go ahead and
have nice time, and on no ac-
count come home. You could only
have the carriage to stop in front
of the house, and wave to me
through a window.
Mother, / want you to do some
thing for me. You know who is
down there, and-this is awfully
delicate, Mumsy-but he's a nice
boy, and thought / liked him.
guess you know he has been
rather attentive. Now, ! do like
him, Mumsy, but not the way !
thought l did, and 1 want you
very gently, of course-to dis
courage him a little. You know
how i mean. He's dear boy, but
] am SO tired of people who don't
know anything but horses and
motors.
And, oh, yes,-do you remem-
Der girl named Lucille Mellon
who was at school with you in
Rome? And that she married a.
man named HARRISON? Well, her
son is here! He builds railroads
and bridges and things, and he
even built himself an automobile
down in South America, because
he couldn't afford to buy one. and
burned wood in it! Wood! Think
of it!
81 wired father in Chicago for
fear he would come rushing home.
The picture in the paper of the
face at the basement window is
to be Mr.. HARRISON, but
of course it isn't any more like
him than mine is like me.
Anne Brown mislaid her pearl
collar when she took it off last
night, and has fused herself into
HI 4.