Evening star., 1919-04-27

with the neighbors just let some
Of your so-cslled friends ring you in
On local politics and wish a little
two-by-four office on you. Say. it's
more iiluminatin' than an X-ray pic
ture or havin' your bumps read by a
headoIogist
Here a while back I was nursin'
along the idea that my ratin' as q
oiusen OF Rockhurst- -on- tn e Sound
vas along about fair to middlin'.
Course. wheu it came TO finances.
didn't count myself In with the piutes
and near -plutes;'- among our little
bunch OF high-brows knew l was
q fiivver: and IL II was q case Of So
eial rank Id be classed among the
Also rams every time.
Yet I'd lived out here quite some
time without hsvin' to face the judge
erom the wrong side OF the court
room! I'd always paid my taxes
prompt; 1 hadn't run or with any
body's wife: nor ! hadn't traded in
my liberty bonds for wildcat mlnln'
gtock. was servia' my fourth term
~ director of the Yacht Club. I'd
helped organize the Citixens' League
And Id subscribed to all tho funds.
from the Armenian appeal to the ono
- raise \ permanent memorial to our
var heroes. I'd even been referred
70 ~ our esteemed fellow townsman.
gr0fsssOr MeCabe." in the last annual
ceport Of the committee on war gar
dsns. Right out In print. too.
Qn whom 0ota haf
picked to fill in this vacancy on the
echoo board amt ss much sur
brlsed as some might think I'd be.
Course. l starts in by making q noise
like a man sufferin' from ingrowin'
Snodssty
"Weli. wouldn't that frost a cake"
remarks. turnin' to Sadie. Mo
hamed to help run the schools. And I
hever even got through the eighth
educator, l will. guess som ebody
must have pulled a bone"
I'm sure I see nothing strange
About it," says Sadie. Il think it's
rather a compliment. Shorty, though
pothing more than you really de-
Derve"
Good girl. Sadie" says l. II might
know you'd stand up for me. And il
that's the way you feel about 1t,
blamed il l don't give the thing
whirl: yes. even IL have to wear
pair Of eyeglasses on a black ribbon
to dress the part"
] got to ad nit, though. that way in
side Of me could feel something
eweliin' out my ribs in front. Member
Of the board of education! Eth?
Wasn't that comm along some? Spe-
ciaily for guy that started where I
had. I couldn't help wonderin' what
some of the old gang would say IL
they should hear about 1.-THE ones
I'd known back in the days when 1
was meetin' all comers who could
make the weight, when j was figuring
strong in the sportin' columns and
earning the big end of the gate
receipts by hammerin' other young
gents around a roped platform. Huh.
Wouldn't the news get gasp out of
Sem
That pleasin' frame of mind lasts
until 1 begun gettin' the returns from
some Of my good neighbors. 1t was
about the second mornin' that the
news seemed to have spread general
among the commuters on the S:03, and
they sure had a merry time joshin
me on the way into town.
- Hey, Shorty" says one, slappin'
me on the back. where have you
been concealing this braIny stun all
the whiie!"
"Oh. that's simple, with pin heads
like you" says l.
do l understand, Professor" says
another. that you mean to add Il
course Of applied pugilism to the high
school curriculum"
That gets a big laugh from the
cross seats where bridge game is
going on.
Say" says I. 'if the beard wants
to start a class in comic kiddin' l can
name some who'd qualify for the kim
dergarten department. Come now,
anybody else with a wheeze he's been
sayin' up for me?',
Not that most Of it wasn't good ma
tured and all that. but the fact re-
mains that my having anything to do
with manaHin' the schools is con-
sidered a joke Oh yes. That seems