The Washington herald., 1918-03-24
That's what They All Say.

ledge. All wasn't drunk at all.
All am naturally q leedle wrong in
nah head en- All gifts dizzy an
staggers"
"oh. is that itr' the court asked
Luke May. charged with being
soused.
"Yassir." answered Luke. "Yo
see a long time ago. Jedge. wen
All was a boy All ran into a load
OBJ bricks and hurt nah head. All
amt been right since"
Luke says he was dizzy. The
cops admit that he was dizZy-but
they say that liquor caused it.
The only time that Luke has any
thing wrong with his head. the
cops say. is when he rubs it with
Baltimore booze.
Thursday night on X street the
cops discovered Luke trying to get
into a sewer.
They watched him for a second
or two and then decided that il
would be cheaper to arrest Luke
than to put the D. c. to the ex-
pense OF unstopping the sewer.
Pay a fine OF S25.' said the
court. IT there is anything wrong
with your head the Jail authorities
Will md II out"
The Winged Brick.
How can a brick fly around the
corner and hit the buIl's-eye?
1t is a great mystery how a brick
come to go through a window in
Rozybelle Moore's house.
An investigation of the ground
around Roxy's house showed that
it was a physical impossibility for
a person to stand directly in front
of this window and send a brick
through It.
There is no place near enough to
stand. But this phase of the Ques-
tion is not as important as who
threw the missile.
The cops arrested Abe Jackson.
He is the boy who looked like he
did it,"
Roxy and Abe had been sweet
hearts once. Lately they have had
a falling out.
said something or other about Roxy
she didn't make up.
The girl was sitting quietly by
the window one evening knitting.
All of a sudden a brick whizzed
by without saying good evening
Abe had to put up a SO bill to
get out OF court.
Careless Frank.
"Ah was sneakin' in de back way
OBJ NAH house, Jedge," said Frank
Seals, cause All didn't want my
wife to know All was out late?"
But why did you enter someone
else's house. instead of your own and
then remove what you found there 20
the court asked Frank
"Ah dunno, Jedge, All must have
been drunk cause All neber steals.
swipes, lifts. or takes anything"
Frank was charged with removing
two pictures from a house and hid
ing them under his coat.
or course, 1t is possible for a man
to become confused in the dark-but
he surely knows when he is in his
own front room and when he is in a
front room belonging to someone
else.
The two pictures were not worth a
great deal. 1t was the act of taking
them that got Frank in trouble.
There is no need for Frank to swipe
anything. He has a good job and
gets a good salary.
And after he promised the court
never to do 1t again, a 30-day SEN
tence was suspended.
| George Gets HIs'n.
No matter how hard some mothers
work to make something OF their
sons, they will turn out bad some
times.
George Rivers has had the best of
csre-his parents, especially his moth
er. have done all in their power TO
show him right from wrong.
And he hasn't appreciated thing
they did for him. In fact the more
his parents did for him. the worse he
| became.
Things got so bad that his father
had to have him arrested.
George had robbed his own father
Just because that parent refused to
give him money to throw away on
untamed women
It was only small amount-$7-
but it's loss seriously embarrassed
his poor father.
I've done the best can with him,
judge - said the elder Rivers May