The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-11-19

fore they swing in here?"
THAT" replied the floor walker of
the high-grade fire-wateT foundry, SIS
where the Argus section Of my sketch
comes in. / can tell that by peeking
them over when they zephyr In. |
take an unohtrusive but Hawkshawish
slant at each and every patient as he
nudges through the door, for the pur-
pose of making a guess as to how
many imbibings he has bestowed upon
his concealed mechanism before get
ting this far up the line.
IF their maps don't reveal the story,
then their chirps will. When, for in
stance, accidentally overhear just
arrived smudge telling the buddy with
him that none Of the folks at home, in
Guiding his spouse, understand him,
dog-gone the luck anyhow, then. even
if never have binocularized him be-
fore, know that he has been hurting
wetties into his diaphragm not alone,
yea, at one, but at several other points
further down the line, and | get the
mental chalk on him and attend to it
that he doesn't reach the glug-glug
stage of it through any fault of mine
or the house. The sog who unlimbers
it to his trudge-mate, at an early stage
of the proceedings in damp drum,
that the wife of his bosom cannot and
does not and will not understand him
that sog. if the act is permitted to
proceed undisturbed, will fall to Ia
menting anonymously all over the up
per and lower bar rails just as sure as
aigs amt eggs. AS you yourself have
just seen, there is nothing sadder or
more dispiriting to be observed in
gery.de-luxe than the spectacle OF
a male person who shaves engaged IN
distilling his own tears into perfectly
good booze, guaranteed under the Pure
Food and Booze act of 1906.
"And when the weeper is doing 1t
because, as he says in tone loud
enough for other persons to hear, ne
is deeply and darkly and sadly misun-
derstood at home, the said weeper
frames into such an enticing figure to
be booted all over the works and then
out into the open, and the shoe-leather
of so many men so witches to do that
same to him that it is highly desirable
to get him out of the place just as
soon as possible, if not by the conolog-
ical method, then by the 'raus-mit-em'
route.
ut is the business of the floor walk
err in a Valenciennes-lace maison de
redeye of this character to analyze the
chatter of each of the patients who
looks unsafe, all the time pretending,
of course, that he couldn't hear pres
ident's salute from a battleship IL he
was shining bright-work on the main
deck. and to see to it that the chirper
who manifests a tendency to become
boisterous along the line of his par
ticular speciality shall not reach the
point where he imagines that he is in
the spotlight down-stage, with all OF
the rest Of the purchasers merely
standing around acting the parts of the
supernumeraries.
"You would be surprised to know
how many gigs there are, who outside
of that are all right, that fall to mag
lining, after they've tossed just one or
two over their average number OF
hooters past their tonsils, that they
are alone in a pleasant and animated
little circle of one or two hundred fell
low runs, many of whom entertain the
same quaint idea.
"Since the merely taciturn or morose
persons who do not care to shout
about themselves while they are fun
neling stimulants into their frames,
object to being reminded in a place
like this of a cage filled with white
crested parakeets just arrived from
Paraguay, it keeps me busy shamlng
the spotlighters into submission or pic
turing to them the hygienic advantages
of a trapes on the fag-stones that run
past the door.
"There are so many sulky, self-con
tanned, mean-spirited men coming into
a flagon factory of this sort who don't
care to hear that Ty Cobb has it ninety
ways on Alexander the Great, or that
the wife of the Chinful Charlie next
to him hasn't the same old affection for
him like what she used to have, no
matter what he does for her and
coughs up all his dough and gives her
the life of queen with nothing ever
to do until tomorrow or even then
There are, l say, so many surly
visitors at nose-paint pension OF this
sort who desire to throw off dull care
and at the same time be quiet about it,
that the floor walker has to be consid'
erably Jerry of his job in order to quiz
escently quell and EFFICIENTLY extin-
guish the cooks who, after they've trod
over their Plimsoll capacity, develop
the insectivorous idea that they are
all alone in the madding crowd and
that, therefore, they can and must go
as far or farther than they like with
personally conducted tete-a-tete mem
bers bearing on and appertaining to
little matters concerning themselves
that nobody else could get interested
in except on the payment of large
salary with house rent, forage and
medical attendance free"
auto bed and is looking out at the