The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-16

sold out and they said he was liar.
The Explorers Union Local No. L
gives a dinner to him-nOt the box
office man but Mr.. Roosevelt, and he
makes an after dinner speech Copy
right 7. Roosevelt, 1870 about it and
realizes another $500 or so, and
that's the way it goes. But you take
Max Paikes which in five years trav-
els $4,000 miles to Mr.. Roosevelt's TO-
600, Birsky. and what is it? Nobody
asks him to write about it; nobody
wants him to talk about it, and if
somebody blows him on account of it
to a rye bread tongue sandwich and
package of a1l-tobaccO cigarettes it
would be big already"
Evidently you seem to think that
it's a hardship that a Teller should
live in the country" Birsky, said.
did you ever think what it m=Rns to
business man that he should be able
to raise his own vegetables? %
'Sure I did," Zapp replied. 1T
means that he is going to eat princi-
paIly radishes for the whole summer
because that's the only vegetable
which a business man who raises his
own vegetables could really rely upon.
Furthermore you think / am green
horn in the country, Birsky, but l al
ready done my twenty odd thousand
miles in round trip instalments of
Al miles a day on the Long Island
Railroad, and l know the whole game
of living in the country right the way
through, from getting stuck with the
lots downwardS. / used to own a
| house at Brunswick Beach and when
let it go TO the second mortgage a
year and a half after 1t was built,
walls on the second floor which if
you'd put a couple of windows and a
door in 'em could of been considered
as extra masters bedrooms"
"Steam heat will do that to a new
house, Zapp," Birsky said. Maybe
you kept the place too warm"
'"Too warm!" Zapp exclaimed.
] Listen. Birsky, the heating plant of
+, that hoHse wasn't designed for moth
| ing bigger than a five dollar a year
safe der<Adt box. With the furnace
| going full on, Birsky. whenever my
wife opened the refrigerator door. Bir-
sky, it raised the temperature of the
kitchen ten degrees. The plumbing
was nothing extra neither. We had
| a gas heater for the hot water, Biz
! sky, which, figuring at the rate OF
$50 per thousand cubic feet, if you
/ took six hot baths it was the equiya-
lent of a suit Of clothes. For years in
New York 1 tried TO bring myself to
take a cold plunge in the morning
but 1 couldn't stand the shock till
seen my first months gas bill out in
| Brunswick Beach, and after that al
I had to do when jumped into cold
hath was to think how many cubic
feet 1 was saving, and If it was siz
below zero even I got pleasant glow
all over. Later on it got to be such
habit with me to take cold plungeS
Birsky. that the second summer we
| was there when they had that baC
water famine on Long Island, I USED
bottled water as long as I could ge
the spring water companies to Sen(
me trial samples. For over a month
there we done the weeks washing
with artificial yichy and my wife haC
to get rid of the wash lady becaus'
for every siphon she put In the tub
she drank one herself -
eYou were lucky 1t was only yichy
zapp, Birslzy said. at might hav,
been ginger ale or root beer. In which
case she would Of took it home to III.
children"
Joke If you want to. Birsky." Zap
-etorted. 'sBut what I am telling yol
now is facts from living in the coun
Try"
aRats. zappi" Birsky said. .Yol
could have shortage OF water In "a
city just so much as In the country
Just because you didn't Ike Bruins