El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-20
Little BObbie and His Pa
Pa Discusses Baseball With q Sclen-
list That Ma Brings to the
House for Dinner.
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BY William h. kirk-

HUSBAND. sed Ma, did you reed
that peece in the paper the
= other day witch sed that a
was the curse of the United States2
No, I dident see that artikel, sed
This artikeI about baseball was the
truth, beekaus ! happen to know the
great SCIENTIST witch gaiv the interview
to the paper, sed Ne He & his wife
is cumming up to the house to dinner
tOnite. You will have a chanst to
meet him He is a RELY CRATE man.
Ma sed, beekaus eeTen his wife thinks
Another Scientist.
Oh deer. sed Pa, & So we have got to
feed another SCIENTIST / haven't forgot
yet sed Pa, the SCIENTIST wich cain to
see US last fall, the one Wich was try
ing to prove that fishes breethed thru
thare scales & not thru thare gills-
He didn't talk anything else excep
fish, & we had fish for dinner that
day, too, I saw fish in my sleep that
mite, sed Pa
Oh, this SCIENTIST is different. sed
Ma He is interested in man. not fish
He believes that every man shud have
the fizeek of a old Roman gladiator
proper rules Of hy-geen- That is why
he thinks that baseball is the curse
of the United States He viii explain
it all to YOU wen he Gums tOn1te-
Well. that mite the SCIENTIST & his
wife calm to dinner He was ntteI
bit Of a man & his wife was a fine Dig
woman She looked as If she cud nave
been a white hope il she didn't hap
pen to be a woman insted Of man.
Her husband squeeked like a mouse
wen he talked, & his hands WIS thin
like birds feet If / was man Wud
like to marry his wife, but If I was
lady I wuddent like to marry the seien-
list.
The SCIENTIST dident talk about Silence
during the dinner. thought from
what Ma sed about hy-geen that ne
wud be vary careful about what he
ate, but he wasent I newer seen
man eet so much I guess the way
his wife looked at him he had foreot
what she tOald him about Over-eeting
beefoar thay left hOam to cum to our
house. But after dinner Pa started rite
in on him
was TO the ball gain today. sed
Pa / was sorry old Matty had to
lose that GAIN He pitched one OF the
grandest gains OF his career.
He Defested 1t.
I detest baseball sed the SCIENTIST
It is the curse Of the country Jest
think Of it, sum days thare are maybe
1000 men watching gain OF Dali
wen they ought TO be exercising them
sells insted Of watching is men that
are doing the exercising II they were
all out exercising themselfss thay mite
be trained athleets, too
Do you exercise2 sed Pa
Indeed I do, sed the SCIENTIST, three
hours a day.
What kind Of a trained athleet are
yOu2 sed Pa
That is neither here nor thare, sed
the SCIENTIST He saw his wife la1ting
& he was Citing mad
/ never exercise much sed Pa. 4 /
never miss a ball gain wen my biz
ness VIII let me git away but feel
as fine as silk & guess I cud give
sam LangfOrd quite a flte as long as
nv wind lasted Baseball is not the
curse OF the United states. sed Pa
with all due reference 10 yure opinyun-
Baseball is the grandest gain that was
ever invented. It IS loved % oaver
milyun men & boys & is getting crater
every year Ladies can 90 to ball
gains & fergit thare shopping. Pa sed-
and men can go & fergit thare cred
itOrs- Long live baseball, sed Pa, &
three cheers for McGraw.
I think Pa is rite but he is a raw
person sumtimeS-