South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-01-20

to walk up TO people like that FELLOW
does" added Walsh.
You could if you'd practice" urg-
ed the friend.
walsh shook his head obviously,
but said he would try.
In a few minutes another friend
came up.
Hello BILL" was Walsh's greeting.
And the friend nearly dropped in
his tracks. for it was the first time
Walsh had ever addressed him with
such familiarity.
What's the matter with Walsh p
he asked with anxiety, after Walsh
had gone.
He's trying to learn to be good
fellow" exclaimed the friend solemn
ly, land it's no laughing matter. It's
going 10 be the most serious struggle
of his life, poor fellow, and we must
all try to help him."
From that day on Walsh has been
making fair progress toward becOm-
ing a good fellow. Since he came to
Washington his associates have found
him reasonably human. And he in
tends to keep right on practicing.
Austin Cunningham, a young news
paper correspondent of Washington,
who is now running for congressman
at-large from Texas. once worked on
a paper in Mexico City. 1t was eX-
tremely hot down there and Cunning
ham began to pine for a place where
he could sleep under blankets. One
day he said:
i've got a good notion to go to
Alaska and see if l can't get cooled
off a bit"
His friends thought he was just
joking, but he was not. He was so
disguised with hot weather that Alas
ka was exactly what he wanted and
he up and went there. He remained
in Fairbanks one whole winter, work
ing on a newspaper, and there was
not a night that he didn't sleep under
blankets.
Postmaster General Burleson lives
wasteful. He thinks a well-balanced
course between being a tightwad and
a spendthrift. His prejudice against
waste amounts almost to a supersti-
ton. He has an idea that the man
who spends a nickel needlessly may
need that nickel before he gets
through with this little curtain raiser
TO the hereafter.
for anything own more clothes than
he needs. He buys clothes of the
best material he can get and is a neat
dresser, but if he had more than two
business suits at a time, il would
! worry him so keenly that he would
get thin and then none of his suits
would fit him. One suit on and one
suit off is enough for any man, he
says. The same applies 20 shoes. He
keeps two pair of low shoes and two
| pair of high shoes. And they are OF
extra good quality. But nothing
could induce him TO own another
| pair
A little while ago, Burleson was
about 10 place his order for office sta
tionery A cabinet officer can have
| pretty much anything he wants in the
way of nifty letter paper, and Burle-
sons office associates told him he
ought TO have some handsomely en-
| bose stationery that would be in
keeping with the high position he
! holds.
mo indeed" he declared; Il car
remember when / did all my CORE
spondence on yellow foOlscap and q
! dimes worth would last me nearly 8
year.
Finally he relented however. and
! agreed TO put in an order for small
amount of embossed stationery. TO be
| used only for special occasions.
One day he was signing his name
TO letter done on sheet with blue
/ enclosing at the top.
Boys" ne said suddenly. bringine
his fist down with a thud. 4 wouldn'
| doubt IL this paper costs better thar
/ a cent a sheet"
! Cong Edward W. Townsend OF
| New Jersey. author OF "Chimmie Fad
| den," has little time for literary en-
I deaver any more, now that he is Z
statesman. and contents himself witt
| dashing of an occasional scenario fol
| moving pictures.
| Indiana has produced more first
! class secOnd-grade men than any
state in the union" remarked Vice
Pres. aMrshall recently. and I'm one
OF them"
Copyright. 1914. by Fred c. Kelly
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