Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-13

the other end takes down his re-
ceiver and says, care you there"
| Only he doesn't say 1t like its
spelt, Bill. He says, "Ahyou' theahs"
Well, what's a man going to do
under those circumstances? If you
answer, "No; I'm down round Cas-
per way, picking strawberries"
you'll crab the whole works, and
like as not you'll 60 to the Tower for
high treason. The right answer is,
Eyes, I'm here. How's the Missis
and all the kids?" And then you go
out and take a walk along the en-
bankment and look at the holes the
German bombs punched through the
important places in the Sphinx at the
foot of the Obelisk and call it day.
Maybe I'm boring you stiff with
all this chatter, Bill; and if you read
it to the boys be sure there's no
sheepmen around to add to their
displeasure. But I've just got to
unbelt a lot of this stuff before it
ferments inside me and spoils my
naturally happy disposition. And
speaking of neckties, Bill
The London Neekgear.
You know, over here in London
they're mighty shy on what you
might call the spectral colors in ties.
They'll sell you handkerchief made
of silk which's got all the colors
of an oil fire down Salt river way
woven into it; but you're not sup
posed to do anything with this flag
Of the Whosis republic except wear
it in the outside pocket of your
jacket with ends showing fancy-like..
You don't dust off your shoes with
it when you're hitting town after
long ride in from the range, and you
don't wipe off your chin with 1t after
boring into the old Yorkshire ham
and Plymouth Rocks. You just show
it proud-like.
But when you ask the man behind
the counter in the gents furnishing.
store to trot out his ties-Boy, tow
dyl He shows you layout which's
left over from the time they buried
George the Three and the whole ma
ton went in mourning. Blacks with
white fyspecks and dark gray with
pal, blue Ay-specks and just plain
black for sporting" You know,
Bill, what sporting" is-going on
the river, which is the Thames (pro-
nounc d Tins and pushing q
boat around with long pole; that's
sporting"
Panama Hat for Sports.
If you want to roach your name
up and be a regular wolf, hunting
free of the pack, you 60 to 4 haber-
dasher's store and buy you a black
tie with a faint gray stripe and .
Panama hat (Which mustn't be
worn in London, Bill; only when
you're sporting) and you're rugged
for a regular medicine dance. know
an American, Bill, who sifted into
this town with a flock of ties he'd
bought in Joliet, Ill.-the kind which
hook in the back-and the first time
he oozed out of his hotel wearing
one of these Texas northers Gov
cIlC HdIuCI uOWSI WOHldA wiz hoo-
MT drawn a sober breath since the
Jubilee tainted and had to be taken
to St. Stephens on the Mount or
some such hospital.
Of course I could amble on and
tell you how an Englishman always
pours his salt on the side of his
plate and swabs his food in it IN
stead of sitting the salt on top of
the eats proper and how he says,
I'm sorry" when he bumps into
you accidentally on the street and
it isn't your place to answer him
back, "So'm l." and all that. But
what's the use?
Hoping the Burlington's run that
spur up Clear Creek right into your
town and that Old Joe LeFors has
mt dropped all he's got in that new
oil prospect, I remain,
Yours truly,
THE WRITER GUY.