Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-15
MOTORING McGUSTY'S WARM
BABY" SOME CAR, SURE ENOUGH
Rmght Despite Family Objections That Purchasers
Legs Were Too Long for
Comfortable Fit
By MOTORING McGUsTY

.or6R1NG McGUsTY that's meat
MI sst, Lou McGusty If you want the
IN IN name, Lou is no abbreviation either,
~ name was Lewis, but at my chisten-
\. said to the parson, This kids
goes down on the book as plain
- Lou. That's what plain folks call
!. and I'm plain folks. The stiff shirts
h,sh collars call me Lewis. When a
sst.a. calls you Lou YOU can borrow
arsy ,snr from him, but when he calls you
mis- mis- YOU know he's got paddock on
i. wallet. don't want this kid of suffer
h .,ch handicap, so write him down as
plain Lou. ..,.,,.-, r,,,,i,,. ,,,,,c,o,,.
~ bnslness Is eggs wholesale. ! got a
~, and a CROWN boy and girl, and we
~ nice little first mortgage manor out
ktfontgomery County. | won't put down
~ -. ,ownship cause | don't want any
~ ~. s,itomobile statesmen and gasoline
'as.,,ors houndln me. ! got my little
soat anly, and | reckon it's goin' to
~, for bit Notice | use the word
snsss Later on / may use something
.tronser hut after only one lesson runnin'
= ", not eoin' to Join the buncn of cock
~. u,llies who arc always getting 1t IT.
ma 1
.soasa 10 know how to make reserva-
tons ...,.,. ...,.,- ,~,,,,
.a,oa ana damage insurance and the like
.ttoehpd 10 II I might work UP into the
sieh spIrits Of certainty. But IT'S not
rar 1t's q used car and an orphan at
NJ, III You're not i motorist you may
,ot know all these terms, but I'll explain
sn You betcha. And maybe some
.rds,1l Illustrate 'cm. donno about that,
Mi n some artist don't he's losin' an
snpcr.unity like them Just past of inves-
tn' war stocks.
gITYs A LITTLE FELLOW"
ws,d been lookln forward to buyln' n
AR for some years. The whole family
Mus A year ago I'd enough laid by to
t,st in and get one of them little fellows.
you kno,y. Ttrre's book of funny stories
sho,it 'em sellin' on the newstands. My
vire's sister and some of my friends
stalled ME off.
col little sore at my wife's sister,
though she's a pretty good sport at times.
she came right out sorter rough and said,
Lou McGusty, you're funny enough with
oat drlyin' one of them You oughter
know they amt got the lcS-room for you.
Both knees would be ticSlin' your ears.
T That's Nnat SNTl says uIlI sam cuNHlti
know-hes cashier in new YORK
garage"
Sans her husband and he oughtcr know
something about cars, working where he
does But all Sam ever said to me about
cars was that any celler with n small
Income who bought a car was a sucker.
eWhy?" / says. Because | keep books
In garage" he says. then shut up like
one Of them nuted Chesapeake oysters.
Sam amt the kind that gives way busi-
ness secrets.
got kinder huffy at Emma-she's the
sIster-in-law-but | didn't give her an ar
sument. With the whole family boring at
my legs and ears, what was the use? Ed
dt-that's the boy, going on 13-fetched
/, the tape measure, but when he got the
look gave him lie didn't come near me.
but went upstairs and measured pair of
mypants, Pretty soon he come down and
whispered to Ma, "Forty-three inches ard
Bridegroom in that make begins to crowd