The Detroit times., 1917-12-06
Not Us. Ira; We Tried It one.


Not Us. Ira; We Tried u once
c. T S-To se--t-- --f,tt,e- -hat7geen man
and wife, viii YOU please answer couple
questions
l. Would you advise laying in our win
ters supply of coal now?
BEEN Ira Fuse
past tense
The morning BOWLS quoted now at 15
Beginns to look something, Barney, like
the oatless breakfast.
May We submit that while they are about
II, trying 20 make the p. L. r come to time
they devote some 0f the energy 70 making
il come also. on.
c. DeLacey Evans (your particular at
tention. good people, to the embroidered
name) is a Baltimore banker who knits
for soldiers. We always found our own
pretty much there with the knit, also.
Sugar ia cheaper in England than It is in
this country and plentiful b1t dropping
over there FOR some Of it has, likewise, a
in IT,
Wen bet that HorneIl. y. Y. cobbler
who is pretty we'll heeled since he has
Just fallen heir to 100000. never does
another tap.
He probably doesn't care, either,
whether they sew it on or nail it on.
THE FOLKS NEXT DOOR
This is just 2 ask y. neighbor
II II amt tmperty-nent
(And Il amt II youll accept q
In tn spirit that fits meant
II yre fixed out in th cubbard
Fr th' winter time and more
Do you know ~ situashun
or tn folks next door,
Cause tt's sort Of diT'rert. ueigbbor.
In tn city from d wa
That We used % know each other
In IN town O yesterday.
Where We used Q borry sugar
Till we got some from III store
And their reFse-pee fr ketchup
From IN folks next door.
r. SOMEBODY IN the family
Cum down sick and took 2 bed
With a tech o. inflooeuzie
Er new ralgee in th head.
Then tn gate 'atveen would open
And a-steamin'. corin' Ger,
Was bowl o. soup r somethin'
From th folks next door.
So its Just = tel ~ nelghbor.
In tb city here with me.
Tho y'r share o. earthly blessin'
II a full suficiencv.
There's a duty YOU are owin
That - shudda met before.
n we never ho'lered over
To th folks next door
LIES sort o. compound MIXTURE.
Pull o. bitter, full o. sweet.
with our lots pervdn. crosawtse.
Some a strap and some a seat.
Some M labor. some N profits,
Some RI apple some th' core.
Some that wealth and some that heai,h has
And "a folks next door.
Full o roses full o. briarS
Full o. famine full O grain.
Full O. poverty and plenty
Full O. jOy and full o. pain.
Tho you're snug and safely sheltered
when th clouds come up and pour,
10 you know th rain amt leskin'
on the folks next door,
Seaweed is said to make sound-kirl-
ing lining for walls. Now we know why
IL is always so hard 10 make out what the
wild waves are saying.
A. T. p Says he has been accused ~ be-
Ing q Stacker as the possessor ~ more than
his share OF coal There is q story going
the rounds in biz neighborhood that he has
succeeded in cofnering tho greater part %
carload and tho fact Be- causing him no
end of annnIaLce Now that the rtlnlor- has
reached the ears of HE police. he has asked
us 20 enter official denial which wp hcrcby
do. He has no such quantity of coal
S. As Tar as We know
A Fremont, Neb. dispatch says a man
from Connecticut who insisted on being
Served with nam and auuc on rr,aafIase
day, paid S25 In court or for the ham
and eggs
This man Kaitschmidt hasn't much % ssv
just a. present for being such Ar explosive