El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-09
MIR. Irwin and His Jap Valet.

FTFT ALLAcE IRwINs chief claim to fame is his
NA/ authorship of the letters of the japanese boy
w Hashmura Togo, which have convulsso his
paer face readers years. Irwin viii long be
bsred adding this distinct and delicious novelty to
Americas library Of wit and humor
No form of humor is delightful than the dialect
FORM it is absolutely the most difficult to handle
But what F. P Dunno has done with the Irish, George
v Hobart with the German, T A. DAILY with the Italian
William Drummond with the Canadian French wallace
Irwin has with the Japanese, and has done it
no one ever even attempted TO do.
Before he created Togo he sot name for himself in
the humorous permissible Of slang reTneTr
bered in THE Love sonnsts Of Hoodlum." In fact
Irwin proven himself very versatile purveyor Of
humor and he is still at His Togo letters appear
each month in GOOD housekeeping Magazine.
The writer dropped In to see Mr. Irwin the other day.
and heard q few
other morning. said Mr. Irwin, when he paused ard
addressed me with rather amusing line of talk.
MI Ewing, he said, - too read Togo story in maya
zine Is very funny Mr.. Ewing. Everybody talk about
EN-. . GOT little brother. He reads, too
" told him very GLAD he appreciated my efforts
at character deIineaton and lot of that kind of stuff
Then continued; Mr.. Ewing all my Japanese friend,
they ike you write talk like they English. They all
buv MAGAZINES and read too tell them YOU are very
.ovey gentleman Mr.. Ewing. Some of them Jealousy
"Of it all right for Zro to put in the
5uddha class, and really think that he is loyal TO
interests right through to the last ditch with
my eggs and patted myself the back at the time.
That evening crested effusiveIy with his funny
little smile and then handed over this one:
"'Mr. Ewing, please, you make for raise pay"
while IN Frisco while ago heard another
sibly you as less Ill play the part Of
the boob, and tell il in this way:
81 was walking down Of the main streets
morning when ! noticed gigantic Pumpkins dis
played in dairy lunch window ] paused to admire
them, they Impressed forciby with their
sive proportions that said aloud, Some pumpknsl'
"A guy took exception TO my statement
They're not punknsI' he said, They're grapefruit
"Ot course my wonder scared How on earth can
they grow grapefruit Of that size out here, any
where eIse| asked him.
"'Reg'lar California grapefruit It's climate, my boy,
climate
ing corner we came upon man who looked to be
about sixty years oId-or young would bettsr-yvith
crowd standing around. He was selling hounds ten
feet long asked the guy with me how dogs could grow
big, In California.
"'Theyre not big he said, they're only pups. They'll
grow three times big that. Then they 'sm
pull up trees
81 staggered
That's the way do things out here, went on,
rs climate, my boy, climate!
I'VE struck country road, and set back bit on =
beautiful lawn was large house, and the porch
beautiful who looked forty, bat this fella
children. That's the most marvellous family ever saw
Some climate said NO you booby he yelled That's
the orphan asylum
81 was fred from Stanford University for stealins
chickens was broke, and had TO something not
With forty cents In my pocket legged If Frisco
and secuted around for Job on paper there Nobody
was taking anybody on especially If they had had
III seemed to me lust then that the mos. valuable
asset could have had would have been newspaper
psrsnee. So resolved to get some, even If IT only
amounted to hanging around office and watching
vent around all right
There was just paper in town that wasn't making
any money, ant they about close their shop.
They couldn't pay any decent salaries all good
men had left them, asked the editor for job. He
he couldn't pay anything. So told him I'd work
for nothing.
ale let about half column bum verses
every day. used to sign the stuff, and they'd call
the boy poet Kid Byron Young Shelley, whatever
came first to mind They tried to make reporter
out Of me, but the worst that the had ever
seen I'd go to assignment and come back write
everything but the news.
But my verses got job with pay, for Ashton Ste
Eens sent for me and had attached to the Examiner
One night the city editor sent to Chinatown
10 see what was doing. They insisted that ought