The Coconino sun., 1919-12-19

sold for $Z0, and good sult of clothes for $8.
 "With all our advantages of rail- roads, automobiles, quick transporta- tion, etc., believe we are better of, i, but good, old-fashioned honesty, in- dustry and good-fellowship are miss ed by the old boys"
 There are 3,4N spoken languages or dialects in the world. Of these, 1,624 are in America. The Engish language contains COG, ,000 words.
 Charlie Woolfolk says he knows a feller meaner than any of them we've been tellin' about. Says the fellow was married few years ago. He pro- posed to his wife on Christmas eve, so that the engagement ring would do for a Christmas present; and she couldn't refuse him because then she would get no present aytall.
 The story's told that while Andy Samsky was out in the edge of town plumbing he started across a pond. The ice began to give. Having heard that one should spread himself out as much as possible in a case like that, he laid down and started to worm to- ward the edge. Then the ice gave way entirely, and he went clear under.
 To his disgust he found that the water at that point was less than two feet deep.
 This is letter received the other day by County Clerk Tom L. Rees; it is self-explanatory:
 Dear Tom.
 "For the following reasons l am un- able to send you check on account:
 "I have been held up, held down, sand-bagged, walked on, sat on, flat tened out and squeezed.
 First by the United States gov- ernment for federal war tax, the ex- cess profits tax, the Liberty bond loans, thrift stamps, capital stock, merchants license, auto tax, and by every society and organization that the invention of mans mind can invent to subtract what I may or may not have in my possession.
 Prom the Society of St. John the Baptist, the c. A. R., the Women's Re- ief, the Navy League, the Red Cross, the Purple Cross, the Double Cross, the Children's Home, the Dorcas Soci- ety, the Y. M. c. A., the Y. w. c. A., the Boy Scouts, the Jewish Relief, the Belgian Relief and every hospital in town.
 "The government has so governed my business that ! don't know who owns it. am inspected, suspected, examined and re-examined, informed, required and commanded, so l don't know who 1 am, where l am, or why I am here. All l know is that ] am supposed to be an inexhaustible supply of money for every known need, de- sire or hope of the human race, and berause l will not sell all I have and gC ou, and beg, borrow or steal money to give away, I ara cussed, discusse.!, Do, cotted, talked about, talked to. lietl about. lied to, held up, hung up, robbed and nearly ruined, and the only reason .hat am clirpjrg {, life is to see what in hell is coming next"
 Hear that Mrs. John D. Rockefeller has financed home for chorus girls. First time anything like that was ever done by a feminine millionaire.
 The chorus girls convention during a quiet evening at the home should make big seller on a photograph record.
 If the chorus girls carry union cards it's not in their working clothes; they'd have to carry them under their skin. A good-sized union card would make two costumes for lem.
 Most of the darlings are showing midseason form right now. Did we say showing? All right; let it stand.
 Poor chorus girls. How glad we are they are to have a home at last. Some of them are so poor they don't know where their next limousine is coming from.
 Most of them claim to be from blue
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