Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-06
THE >CHAFFING DISH
Confessions In a Hash HOUSE

CONCESSIONS III T1dsH EIooeO
TN THROUGH!
l. Seven years I've worked at this hash
counter,
STOPPING down five hundred times day
To shout down the dumb waiter to Pete
THAT Polack never pays any attention,
l can't get thing I ask for)
And spilling line of cheerful chatter
To my customers.
should think men would get tired OF KID
ding.
T1HOSE guys that are so particular,
l. Send back their scrambled eggs for an
other three minutes,
Must have their tomatoes on side dish
And not on the meat, - ----.-- ----------.
Gee, I'll bet when they're home
They take what comes to them
And shut up about it.
And I'll bet that the fresh guys
Who pull the jazz talk day after day
Have mighty little to say at home.
Men are bunch of takers
If ever get one where l want him
I'll make him behave.
I'll bean him with sad-iron'
TN TIRED of kidding the bunch.
i I'm tired of listening to their yap about
what they like
And what they don't like.
Inst for change I'd like to see some one
Come In here and order his lunch and eat 1t
without trying to be funny about it..
If all this STOPPING wasn't SO good LOT tne
figure
(gut. oh my back by six p. m. y
ida quit long ago.
WELL, girls, I'm through.
w Next week I'm going to marry fellow,
And l don't mind telling you, m in luck
He works in a restrunt on Girard avenue,
So he won't ever be home to meals.
% -0 GERTRUDE.
We always believe in going to headquar'
ters for our information, and to settle the
question whether J. M. Barrie wrote Daisy
t4shfnrd,s book we would long ago have
vrritter IN Sir James to ask him about it
but his handwriting is so indecipherable that
NC would not know what he said. Seven
yoars AGO we had letter from Mr.. Barrie,
and ye still take it out sometimes in the
long winter evenings and try to read 1t.
orr ou-n experts condensation OF II m
Forever blowing Bubbles" has brought us
some communications from our always
helnful and nice natured clients Two OF
these have FASTENED to inform that the au-
thor is John Mlilldui i>ciie''Si 0tN-@t'J
linotyper on several newspapers; and we
learn that Mr.. Kellette is about to knock
the public ear for another loop with sequel
entitled "Bubblirg Over. We may be
wrong hut we doubt whether the public can
| be bubbled again so soon.
| Another letter Is from our good highbrow
friend Edwin Edgett, literary editor Of the
Boston Transcript. He says, II must con-
fess nv ignorance, but I'm Forever Blotoing
RybbIe, is new to me-" Now isn't that
typical of Boston? If Mr.. Kellette had
called his ditty "I Am Perpetuaily ,EJacu-
lating Unsubstantial Spheres OF Vapor.
how quickly Boston would have fallen for it.
Obviously Tennyson was not thinking OF
Elaine, Ark, when be pulled that line about
Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable'
Additional Argument for Prohibition
Another highly important piece OF evi-
dence showing Kerrs wonoertui enectVe-
ness was the fact that not fea-nosed
player reached third base.-our iaVorlte
morning paper.
When we hear any one speak conde-
scendingly oil the mid Victorian epoch, we
wonder wheiher this generation WIZ some
dayabe denounced as mid WoooroY1an.