Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

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| ! LII day yesterday it rained--rained
When woke up in the morning it
was pouring in torrents and it kept up
all day long.
You can just imagine what Leevtle
! Park looked like and what we all looked
| like when we returned I got soaking
wet through before we had been there
an hour and by the time I got back
TO Mr.. Samper's was cold wet shlv-
ering and miserable.
Mrs. Samper, good soul. insisted on
my having a drink of whisky. and sent
me TO bed. In spite Of the wet day,
however, Frascati and two of his pals
turned up to give the land the o. O.
once more
We tramped over Leeville Park, the
ground oozing and squashing beneath
our feet.
=. Gee" I thought, "if | were buying
land I'd buy some here on a day like
tths-not"
But IL didn't seem to feaZe them a
bit They just kept chin-wagging away
in Italian, but what they were saying
I don't know-and | don't care. but
DO wish could have felt as CHEEKY rs
they seemed.
Zeigler had real big crouch on. It
seemed he had about half dozen pco-
pie TO whom he hoped to sell quite a lot
Of land, but the weather was so bad
that they didn't turn up. So all there
ha Lee
Zeigler and my crowd
Coming back. Lee tried TO close a
contract with Traglio. and he got real
peeved when Frascati called him OF
Look n here, Mr.. Lee" Frascati said
I've tried my best to SEQ II we can
do business with YOU but III we BUY
any of your land, we've got TO BUY II
In our own good time. Now, Mr. Flint.
here is looking after us in great shape.
Lee tried to laugh 1t OF. but as
saw it looked ike they we're getting mad
at each other. I asked Frascati TO come
with me to the smoking car. We were
all so wet and miserable that IL Lee ana
Frascati got together much there wouId
he one glorious scrap. You don't feel
particularly CHEEKY when your clothes
ooze water.
When we got TO the Grand Central
Station we all parted. feeling just
The trolleys on Fortysecond street
were all crowded, so ! decided to walk
up to Broadway and take an uptown
car from there.
| had Just crossed Fifth avenue when
heard some. one say:
Hello dearie. How are you to-
night"
Well I didn't feel "dearie" to any
body so ] looked round sort OF peeNed
Hello. Fossie," said. What are
you doing out in the wet?'
Well" she said, I'm working up a
good, healthy appetite"
Well / was so mad at everything that
! l couldn't be nice to her. l knew she
, was trying to hold me UP fer feed, so
said, snappy-like:
We'll, you've got to get somebody
| else to feed you tonight
one thing led to another til! she finally
fared up: Gee. If ida known you
t was such a cheap skate ida had moth
ing ter do with yer! Good night !"
And she f1ounced up Fifth avenue while
! walked on toward Broadway.
, Believe me, I'm rather glad to be
= through with that bunch OF skirts. q;
stumbled on to a bully good little
= idea for selling today. When I went &c
s put on my shoes this morning found
tnat tney were SO wei lHdl II Mds
impossible to put them on. I had one
other pair Of shoes, but they were a,
the shoemaker's being repaired. There
was only one thing for me 10 do. and
that was TO hit out for a new pair. Sc
wore wet ones to the store, bought
new pair and left the wet ones to be
dried and repaired.
While waiting for a salesman,
couldn't help noticing a clever little stun
! which a salesman attending to a swell
. dame--you know the kind Of woman
mean. the kind that always has to have
the right thing for every purpose-th'
: kind who would feel ostracised from hel
swell circle II she dtdn't dine In thu
; right kind of gown. Well. the salesman
had got the kind Of shoes she wanted
-. but she complained that they didn't fl
y her One shoe was t1u tight. while tn'
. other was too loose. of course. spotted
!. the reason at once-her feet weren't ;
pair One foot was larger than tn
, other. The salesman got on 20 It, too
but did he say that one foot was large
. than the other? Not SOS you'd notice It
What he said was: IT'S a little awK
= ward to At you, madame, for while you
= left foot is very small, your right foo
O is even smaller
. Francis laughed when l. told him abou
: lit and said that. the salesman was ont
: his Job "A good plan in selling" h
a said, "is always to assume taat every
thing is good, but what you have is
!, little. '.better"-and I guess he's right a
that