El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-15

~ ris Perlmutter asked os he en-
tered the office one morning after the
cessation OF hosdlities on the western
front
al Tzuris.' Abe moaned in reply
and FOR al least a minute he continued
TO rock 70 and fro in his chair and
10 make incoherent noises through
his uostrils in the manner Of a person
suffering either from toothache or the
recent cancellation OF a large order.
TT serves you right" Morris said
told YOU Won shouldn't eat that Lib
erty roast al Wasserbauer's yester-
day. Il used 10 give you the indiges-
ton when It vas known as Koenigs-
burger Elops. which Il IS like the Ger
nan empire now calling itself the Ger
man republic; changing its name amt
going 10 alter its poisonous DISPOSE
-'That's right,- Abe said Make
Jokes whv don't you2 You are worser
As this here Teller zero"
what fener Zero.' Norris de-
Zero. the emperor what fiddled
wien Rome was burning" Abe re-
piled Hes got nothing on you You
would fiddle II Rome, WATERFOWL and
oEdeusburE was burning.
Difference in Names
Il don't know what you are talking
about az ALL Morris said. and be-
sides the feIers name was Nero not
Zero
That's Ehot sou say Abe COM
fuented. which you also said that the
operators was ouly bluGinE and that
they wouldn't strike on US in a thou
sand years. and considering that you
said this only yesterday. MaHrusss Il
already wonderful how time flies"
Well Morris said. How could
figure that them lunatics is going TO
pick out the time when we've got
practically no work for them and was
going TO fire them anyway. 10 call a
strike On U.s.
you should ought 10 have figured
that way" Abe declared Didn't the
kaiserfF hdicate Just before them Ger
mans got ready 10 kick him CUT
The king business amt the gar
1nent business" Morris observed
4 know il amt Abe agreed @kiucs
have got their worries. too. but when
Il comes to laying awake niEhrs try
ing 20 figure out whether them de-
eiEuers somewheres IN France IS go
ing 20 turn out long full skirts or
short narrow skirts FOR the 1all ana
winter Of 1919-1920. Mawruss. bet
yer the entire collection OF kings, act
i've or retired, doesn't got 70 take two
Grains o. trional between them"
II everybody worried Ike you do.
Abe" Morris said. "the government
would got 70 issue sleeping powder
cards ike sugar cards and limit the
consumption o. slee7lnE powders, 70
not more than two pounds OF sleeping
powders ner person per month in each
household
well. someone has got 10 do the
worrying around here. 1Iawruss," Abe
mH-rr
y'understand. we could make up a line
OF samples for next season that
wouldn't be no more Ike Paris de-
signs than Cen PershinE looks like
his pictures IN the magazines"
SAY, for that matter" Morris said.
I'VE are just as good guessers as our
competitors. on account the way
things Is going nowadays nobody IS
going TO try 20 make tript TO Paris
20 get fashion designs because IL he
figured on crossing the ocean 70 buy
model gowns for the fall and winter
OF IeIe-I920, y'understand. between
the time that be applied for his pass
port and the time the government is
sued g. 70 him y'und IL would
already Be the spring and summer
season OF Tss4-1s25- 50 the best thing
We could do Is TO snooD round among
the trade and whatever we find the
majority Is making ID for next year.
We would make up the same styles
also. and that's all there would be
TO f."
we wouldn't DO nothing OF the
kind Abe declared "I'Ve been think I
ing this thing over. and I come 10 the
conclusion that it's N 10 you TO 90
over 20 Paris and see what Is going on
ever there
= don't got TO 20 20 Paris for that. (
Abe- Norris said. 7 can read the pa /
pers the same ike anybody else and I
Just 50 long as there Is a chance that 4
the war would start Up again. and /
them hundred mile guns is going 70 l
resume operations. ] an content 70 I
get my idea OF Paris styles al dis l
lance Of 5000 miles II I never sold an
other garment as long as I 1--we"
Morris Has . Fear.
But Ehen IL vas working yeL = l
only went eff every 20 minutes" Abe
said
7 don't care u Il only went of ev-
cry fourth Of JULY" Morris said. be /
cause q went over there, II would 1
he inst ny luck that the peace Uego- j
siztious fails through and the Ger