El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-16


Times are good on the Pacific coast
and throughout the west" declared H
r. Brown, western division sales man
ager for the Jeffrey Automobile COM
pany of Wisconsin. "Only last week,
a San Francisco dealer offered to place
an order for 1000 cars with our firm
if we would give him the agency for
Oregon and California, but we had
already placed a more advantageous
proposition. When a dealer offers to
{ sell 1000 cars Of one make in two states
in year, that shows that the people
I have the mOney.to pay for automobiles.
When they have automobile money,
times are good, not that cars are con-
s1dered luxuries any longer; on the
contrary they are considered neceS-
stiles, but a man can generally hang
onto a car for a long time il he is
hard up. When he has the money, he
wants new one-the latest model,
the latest improvement he buys.
| If times were hard, people would
skimp on automobile buying. but there
is positively no letup in this line; in
stead, it is increasing right along and
| there are going to be more automobiles
sold this Christmas than ever before.
The automobile as a Christmas gift IS
getting to take the place of diamonds.
tiara, buys her car; and she appFe-
ciates it more Daughters and sons
are also getting cars these days as
birthday and Christmas gifts"
81 read what The Herald said about
the failure of some Of the jokes at
the Crawford to land with the audi
ence and it reminded me Of some Chi
cago audiences I have SEEN" said Tom
Steep, Associated Press CORRESPONDENT
after he had secured a haircut and
shampoo yesterday and was feeling
good about it There are play houses
in Chicago that are packed every night,
where a Joke as subtle as why does a
get through the brains of the patrons
The greatest joke at these houses is
where the Irish comedian hits his
partner on the head with a Ratchet
and leaves the weapon sticking in the
piece Of cork worn in the wig for that
purpose This joke always gets a ire
mendous laugh and the comedian who
omlts II, is never a hit with his audi
ence. They will howl at this every
night, continually. For these audiences,
another good joke is to steal every
thing from the pockets of a blind man.
and another, as sure of a laugh, is to
set fire to the feet Of a tramp who
IS apparently so badly crippled from
corns that he can't walk and has Just
lain down to sleep. Another one that
always goes well is to squirt a bottle
OF aerated mineral water into the face
Of one of the players. This is not as
good, however, as stealing the crippled
mans crutch or suddenly opening a
drummer's valiSe and dropping a well
worn corset out of ii. That IS a joke
that will ma Ike the audience howl 10
minutes straight. It gets as much
laughter as the Irish comedian dressed
IN WomenS clothes. who dances onto
the stage and pulls his skirts up to his
knees to exhibit display Of lace
trimmed white coverings on his legs.
Everybody likes his Joke. but we who
can appreciate the joke about what do
You do when you are surrounded by
indians% the answer to which is 7 al
ways buy; we have such an exacting
funny bone that il is hard to make
US laugh and we don't have nearly
as much fun going to a show as the
people who like the Ratchet joke and
the others that I have mentioned that
go with it. There is sometimes an ad-
vantage in liking certain kinds OF
jokes-you can laugh oftener"
ct is much easier to detect the imi-
tatiCn bird Of paradise plumes from the
genuine than it is to recognize the i'm
Gle said A. 7. Reed, who has the job
OF inspecting customs for the [. S. A.
at the Santa Fe bridge Since this
law, fO-biddinE the entrance of aig-
into this country, came into effect,
most of the customs men have had to
take n course in feather recognizing
from the millinerS The aigret that
really is the wedding plumage Of the
heron, has fine little marks like finger
nail indentatiOns along the stem. The
stems also are much lighter than the
limitations. The limitations are made
so cleverly that it takes very close in
sDection often to detect them. The diff
ference between the genuine bird OF
paradise plumes is much more quickly
noticed. The artificial plume makers
have never been able to reproduce the
wonderful flexibility of the natural
bird. Every feather of the real bird
of paradise plume will stir with the
iaintest breath OF wind, while the i'm
itation will not"
There is a difference between classic
dancing and muscle dancing Princess
saba. the Egyptian PriesteSs,' who is
with the De KrelO Carnival shows, saws.
Many Of these socalled classic dancers
are in reality only the old fashioned
hoochee coOchee dancers dressed up in
lot Of expensive beadwork scenery
Just the other night I saw a socalled
Salome dancer do a dance in an FL
Paso motion picture film that should
not have been permitted where children
were allowed. I was in vaudeville for
2 number of years doing the real
Egyptian dances as they are done by
the priestesses in the sacred temples
on the Nile We had an elabOra re-