Arizona republican., 1919-12-01
Little Stories
 Of The Town

Mir. Y, an artisan, and father of one of his students.
 Well, "" he remarked, jokingly noting the artisans new s75 suit, silk shirt, barber's shave, and $15 shoes, T wish 1 were a......' (naming the artisans particular trade) Maybe l could dress like thati"
 Well, you see" retorted the artisan, with just a shade of condescension. and lighting a fat cigar, it took me five years to learn my trade! Five years!'
 "so?" answered the faculty man, politely. Well I must be running along" And the man who ten years before had finished his graduate work at an eastern university in preparation for teaching career. stepped into shoe shop to have his summer shoes half-soled.
 It takes some cook to give man a pain one whole day in advance of the Thanksgiving turkey, but P. R. Milnes, secretary to the governor, had all the symptoms of a turkey and plum -pud- ding pain last Wednesday. He felt so ill he broke all precedents by going home at D. m. instead of o'clock, [ 1 job of eating that wonderful turkey and pudding on the following day and having the pain all over again. AL though lacking the sequoia gigantea girth of Auditor Jesse l.. Boyce or Land Commissioner W. A. Moeur, the secre- tary is rated among the well-feddest looking members at the capitol. and he is expected now to take on added sig nificance of gastronomic domestic per- lection as the result of his compound Thanksgiving convulsion.
 Many happy brides and bridegrooms returning to their homes in the Salt River valley at the end of their honey
 moons were never married at all.
 This is the disconcerting statement made by Claude s. Berryman, clerk of the superior court, when two licenses
 were returned to him which bore nc minister's signature. Very frequently
 he said, the cloth forgets that a mar
 riage is not a marriage until the of
 ficiating prelate signs the license and
 inserts the date on which the ceremony
 was performed. Both contracting par
 ties also must sign it.
 Too, often, MT. Bergman stated, the
 licenses returned two or three weeks after the happy couple has gone fortf
 blushing, thinking themselves bride and groom.
 Of course, its only a nasty mean old
 technicality, but 1t has to be put III
 with just the same.
 Here's the problem: Given, one hous, entirely surrounded by water. an auto } mobile which conditions prevent iron coming within less than 20 feet of th'
 house, one pair of boots and two peo pie. By using the one pair of boots get the two people safely and with dr! feet from the house to the automobil, : and vice versa.
 Here Is how Arthur Anderson, book : keeper for The Republican solved thi problem. Anderson lives at 30e Nortl t Fifteenth street, and was confronte, 5 with these actual conditions. He pu on the boots and carried his wife to tn
 car. Then she put on the boots am 2 waded back to the house while he mad s the trip to town-by the aid of tn . floating axle. On his return home, An !, derson whlstled. His wife responde 3 by splashing out to him in the famil r boots. The exchange Of footwear wa a again made at the car-and the rubbe
 protectors squeaked their way bac
 under the double burden.
 t It's easy-if you don't slip.