Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-31
'Stoo Bad.

a friend of mine who Is by way Of
being a real estate agent and who haa
q habit OF speech which with the it-
most conservation, would be called
discursiye, not TO say prollx and ver-
bose, called me up on the phone Tri-
day night Just al the time when I WAS
80 busy ] didn't know which end Of
me was standing on. lneidcu-
ally. ] will rcmark that that Is the
time when ] get the most phone calls
and the longest.
You may perhaps remember that
delightful dflzzle that We had Fri
day afternoon and night Well. my
friend, ~ soon as he got me on the
phone. plunged right into the midst
Of things and relieved himself ~ a
Few choice observations on the wealth
err ! am satisfied that be didn't say
all that he thought because he and
] are members Of the same church,
aud besides he had 20 remember that
he was. teiephonlcgily at least. IN the
presence OF a perfect lady. But at
that. he said enough.
The burden OF his complaint was
that for some time past he had hAd
nibhling M his line couple Of af-
fluent fasteners We used 90 call
'cm ripe Yankees back IN Gods
cOuntry--and that IL h hadn't been
for the weather he would have sold
them land enough 70 have held them
here FOR the balance Of their lives II
seems that they had come out early
IN the winter for the purpose Of teAt-
ing the town ana ite climatc~-jlat 10 |
rec for themselves whether Albuquer- /
que and Now Mexico are what they |
have been advertised They had run I
into snow enough TO chm them TO I
their marrow bones, they had shiv- l.
cred around the fire for two months |
and finally, when that wfetched drlz-
ylr came up Friday afternoon ana q
duh lcadcn sky made the whole town
look like Il WAS accursed Of heaven.
they told my friend that he and All
the other Albuquerque boosters were
only equalied by the proverbinl gas
meter M liars and that the folks who
have been advertising our climate
ought 10 be Ia jail, and forthwith TOOK
the first train back 10 where The
other ripe Yankees live.
II took my friend quite a while to
get M this out OF his system, and ~
had a few other things to do be-
sides listen 10 him ! horned IN with
the suggestion that he ought 10 take
his troubles 70 the weather man instead
Of 20 the society editor Of newspa-
per. Theroupon he came 70 the point
and implorod me 10 write something
that would let folks al n distance
know that the kind of weather we
have been having for the last two
months IL not usual--in fact that II
IL In the highest degree abnormal. He
assured me most solcmnly that he Is
a real estate man with a conscience,
and that II weighed on his mind that /
people should think that he had been
guilty OF so monstrous a thing as 70
miHrepreaent Albuquerque weather.
I'd like 10 accommodate my friend.
but what would be the use2 They
would simply class me along with
him and the gas meter Nobody be-
llosea you when you tell them that /
bad weather Is unusual--it u one
thing that they refuse absolutely TO
be reasonable about y Neither the
records of tho weather office nor the
sworn statements Of the most vera
eieus Of the oldest inhabitants have
any effect upon them. They put us
all down as unconaclonable liars and
lei Il 20 al that.
~ course, u long volume might be
written on the unusual conditions
that have prevailed here this winter,
but as | said before, what would DC
the use2 It's too bad that my friend
lost those two aftluent customers but
J can only remind him that there are
other Hffluent pasterners--in fact
there u one born every minute, ana
some minutes two are bornand that
tile weather will not always be what
IL has been for the last two months.
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II hope I'll see more az YOU"
Said the man
To the maid Ia the transparent
Dress SO grand.
tuid the peHalmist, u don't see
How you can
WANTED. 4 PIANO.
This meeting last week Of the board
0f directors Of the Y w. c. A was