The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-01-07

half made up of reporters is so ut
terly ignorant of the other half's diet.
Y'know I'd always looked on Of
fcialry as sort of we'll fed, and on the
whole, of pleasant corpulency. OF
course, I'd reasoned (yeh even re-
porters reason, in cold weather., that
the stamp of prosperity was printed
on every public-fed countenance by
the three, sometimes four free meals
per day, variously dispensed at ban
quets, suppers, gridirons, teas, grills,
and all the other kinds of feeds.
You fellahs have got snap" |
was saying to one of them, the other
day. Besides getting your Office
rent free, and all the other advan-
tages advertised with the position
you hold, you're always knocking
down charity feeds, when I need 'em
whole lot worse than you do"
Charity feeds?" unused the Off
cial
| Yen, sald, emptily.
do you know" he began,
| Strengthening up.
IF l did | would of published it,"
says I.
do you know that"
What"
That every charity feed | go to
costs me on an av'rage of STOP"
"Wotteryuh trying to hand me?"
says I, politely
I'm not trying to hand you
nothing" he answers. This amt
souvenir day. I'm just informing you
that every free lunch | get costs me
$40"
yes, yes" | breathed breathless-
ly, please tell me the one about the
three bears next"
'Lissen!" this. so severely | knew
I'd have to believe it OF get out of the
office. $50 | believed IT'D my free
lunch bills eat up my whole salary
"F'rinstance they envite me aroun'
to a luncheon. No charge-comp,
you know. Then somebody gets up
and talks. Nice talk, too. And he
says they need money. OF course
I've got to help. SO they hand me
a check book.
why only last week l had to tell
one crow couldn't give them moth
ing for a while, because l didn't
want to get into my grocery bill. Ev-
erything else was ate up at them
free lunchesw
How much didja say they cost
your" | quizzed.
From S. to $500"
you get full meal for that?"
"Yeh, but could eat lots cheaper
by myself"
Il could too" | affirmed. and went
out and eaten dinner out of one
small plate and cup, and was blam.
ed glad | wasn't public official.
Serve just enough Use what i,
left"
But particularly: Serve JUS
enough That's some motto, little
book, don't give any more service
than you have to- They's dozens
of restaurant mess sergeants doing
the same thing in different way.
They's no use serving any more
than you've got to, to draw the en-.
velope-(of course they's use, bu
some people can't see it. What
wanted to get at, tho is this, LITTLE
book
The proletarat is advised by sign,
over the nation generally, and on the
city hall in particular, to use what is
left, after serving just enough.
Being a iniiniestimal, but violent
factor of the proletariet, | read ant
forget
| When | got home, didn't see my
little dawg .nowheres.
where's my dawg?' | asked
He's left" they told me.
That reminded me of something
else, with not much connection. use
what's left" unused. How can |
use what's left? If it's left, it's gone
1t it's gone, | can't use it."
Had Hoover, in his effort to con.
serve meat; gone nuts. wondered
Then got worse off. IF eat what's
let's it's right, If it's right, it isn't
left"
So | wired Mr.. Maxwell OF House.
hold Hints fame. Little book. here's
what he told me-
! When Mr.. Hoover says use whats
lett, he mayn't mean eat it all. Erin.
stance, the bones of fish are left
They make excellent ~toothpicks. o,
can be used to pin sandwiches TO-
eether An old steak bone can b,
polished off and used as hammer
Pie crusts with the fruit eaten out
should be used over again. Breat
crusts will make nice pastry if melt
ed, and poured into the proper molds