Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-09
CHORDS AND
DLSCORDS
CAFE CONVERSATION.

beads you're swinging from your
chest. dearie. Santa been at your
house already"
Mame-"You might call it that, but
got them several weeks ago from /
perticler friend of mine who sells
them on the road. / didden wan ter
take 'em. but what you going to do,
Cert, when they forces 'em on you:
He's an awful nice gemmen. met
him at Sunday picnic at Suburban
island last summer. an / thought he
would dance me to death. He seemed
to take a sort of shine to me-"
Gert-"You always seem to win
among them peddlers better than en-
ney of 'em, dearie. 1 guess it must
be your innocent ways that makes 'em
tumble fer you"
Mame-"You oughter tie that ami
ral outside, Cert, when you git in a
nice place like this. Rough stuff don't
go with no gemmen. I've found that
out. dearie, in the short way I've
gone over the route. They likes girl
that act jest like a girl and not like a
man-eater. Some of these fairies when
they meets up with a stranger they
founders round him like porpoise an
talk jes enough to show off their ig
nerapce and bad manners. You never
saw gemmen who has been around
the circle, specially If he is a sales
man, what hasn't a pretty good line
of patter. My system is to let 'em DO
the talking; that is the most of it. If
they take TO a girl they'll hang on till
they get her to dialoguing with them"
Gert-"Yes, but them peddlers. don't
have no use fer a girl amy more than
TO burn up her time while they're loaf
ing in a town. They wears good
clothes and can talk you black in the
face, but they don't let much of tn ;
expense account go on you. They
saves that fer the customers. / knows
million of 'em. Last one l met
chewed gum to show his gold teeth
and Dragged about having to stay up
late nights writin' his orders. an,
dearie, ] half believed him until he
tried to lead me to two-bit meal in
4 poorly lighted restaurant, an even
where a girl couldn't get anything; |
stronger than three percent Mocha |
l told him. perlitely of course, that |
was not in the habit of dining with |
gemmen that l knowed SIGH a short |
time as | had knowed him.
Mame-'fAll what you says maybe
bout right, dearie, but they is certinly /
some real gemmen among the boys on
the road, and my friend is one OF
them. He don't owe me nothing, ex-
ceppen l was nice to him when he was
among a bunch of strangers, and they
rnnOh fhnro hnljnUn !
ne, and he up and sends me SIGH fine
string of beads"
Gert-"Was the price tag on 'em
when you opened 'em up?"
Mame-"No; you see he took them
,ut of stock, | suppose"
Gert-"That peddler'll break even 4;
or that present the first time you in
rites him to your house fer a meal,
IN I'll bet you do that little trick first
chance you gits.''
Mame-'I certinly wouldn't be much
If lady il l didn't give him a bid,
would /, dearie?"
PROHIBITION party in Cook coun-
Y is making overtures to progress
ives for union. That's the way it
hould be according to the latest /
lunch from Oyster Bay.
PREDICTION is made that art will ..
enefit from the European war Art
n execution probably is meant
NO excuse for further bu3iness l
kidding. The president says the !
DAD is clear and firm. Let's all get Z
Underway now, but be careful not to
xceed the speed limit. That's what
cts us all in trouble.
WOMAN rules in at least one Chi ,
ago family. Carter Harrison says he |
as left tito his wife to say whether
e shall again be a candidate for ?
,ayor. !
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