El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-05-22

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saThs price of silk is going up
better buy now
This is the advice Of New York
silk merchants They prophesied that
| the day OF So and SIS silk shirts
for men would soon pass, and the re-
tailers would ask SIS and $50 for the
/ same garments They said ten dol
I lars for a pair Of fairly good silk
stockings" would be paid gladly.
-Four reasons were given for this
/ II was explained first that all raw
and spun silk comes to America d.
! rectly from japan, which IS just re-
covering from panic caused by eI-
( cessive Initiation OF currency.
Next, It was said, Great Britain,
/ France and Germany have resumed
/ the manufacture OF silken garments
Of all kinds, with a consequent de-
! probation in the supply Of raw silk
( reaching the United States
Thirdly, practically the. only trad
I ing In raw silks just now Is in stocks
being disposed Of by manufacturers
| and Spectators who had plunged
when the market was rising.
FOurfhly, silk merchants pointed
to Increased cost Of labor. which
they said had jumped lis per-
cent since 1917, and the fnct that
silk workers here now put in
fOrty-elEht hour weeks a.
against sevenfy-tvTo hour week.
and At twice their former salary
The theaters never had better
| patronage than they have now,
: wherever you goat So and war tax
for the best seats universally, ex-
cept vaudeville and that is now 50
and war tax for the best seats The
people pay It and enjoy L. however,
and they laugh more at the jokes
about their troubles than anything
else.
The comedians make the big
Eest hits with their Jokes abOut
the high cost OF living and the
great drouth that has made the
bOotleEEer a favorite American
]. c. Nugent. "an artist with a
subtle charm as the Keith pro-
gram introduces him, puts on a whole
act having to do only with the drouth
and the high cost OF things
Il was with the gang in the
drugstore he says by way OF
intrOductfon- @SOme OF rs had
prescriptions and some Of u
were just there hoping TO be
invited TO partnite OF some other
fellows prescription
"a man came ina friend Of mine
and asked me to have q sarsapa-
rilla with him; there was nothing
really wrong with him-he was
merely driven to desperation I
didn't want to hurt his feelings 50
went out
Il was 50 lonesome went to ny
hotel and took out my Christmas
presents-and drank almost all OF
them
ssWhen I came down In the
lobby-ft was too lonesome to
stay In my roOm-I met another
friend He had had n preserip-
ton nIledf ! could tell IL. He
got into m argument with the
house policeman and was thrown
out Into the street and broke
eight pints out Of possible
nine in his pockets II had cost
him SIS for prescriptions but
wasn't Il worth itf
Every fellow IS lonesome-lone- /
some for a girl-and when he gets /
her he Immediately becomes lone
some for another one
! want a girl and a home-Tm I
looking for one who has q nice home I
and a father who viii let Us live I
there. want home and a cellar /
and ! want the cellar full 50 when /
friend comes TO see me-he can I
see II he can get any OF It
ave been lonesome ever since
left nay mother Ny mother
loved me. even II did look like
my father.
Every time I find a girl. she is
either hungry or misunderstood, mis- j
mated OF a food hound
"A food hound f. one OF those
girls without n conscience when
she takes mp a menu she never
.lOOkA Mt the right hand side OF
the eard-5ust at the name OF the
food
4 like a girl who eats simple
things. like tomato salad-its to-
matO pronounced with a long a. I'D
to a certain kind OF a car. ] believe Z
you call It tomato dong a. up 10 a
fIudson six After that, It Is tomato
(pronounced with a short a. salad
mere is one car. I believe. that calls
for caviar. Oh. but ike caviar.
Down here at the hotel where I live.
II you ask for a caviar sandwich
they take the slice OF bread and pile
the caviar an inch high on # Then
they wipe all the caviar Off and
serve you the bread"
George Kelly has a very beautiful
little sketch, a satire on stage and
life. that Is going fine.
A little girl tells him she wants
10 be moving picture actress.
what are you doing now
BennfS he asks her. Il
Il am n Wniter IN q bakery,7
she says
-WeIl. many n wnltress,s says
he -haa made a very successful
moving picture actress
shall 1 put her on the stage7"
lsks her mother.
NO." he says. rather deliberately:
no, not YET an actress who works
IN a bakery Is always reasonably
5ure Of something TO eat"
Then hastily he replies when the
nother asks what he thinks Of the
;hilds ability. h
IF Lena ifves-I say II she lives
she has a future before hen"
You carry n caneg that "a
align Of age" says former girl !
friend, who has not seen him FOR
years.
@Oh, no,- he replies. aonIy a
align OF an actor
Are you married?'' she asks him.
Not this season." he replies
7 have some friends IN Hutchison. I
kan, says the mother OF the aspir-
ant for the stage. 7 want you 70
meet them If you 80 out there They
moved out about a year ago and
Lena she saves picture postal cards
they sent Lena a beautiful picture
81 Niagara Falls"
"When get back to New
York; he replies, arII send her
a fine picture Of the Rocky noun
tains.7
Moran and Mack are another pair
that are putting on a great black
lace stunt in vaudeville
Ihey get TO guarding over money.
say, Niger" says one to the other,
you amt got no more money than
: snakes got hips"
Further on IN the argument. he
Hnysi @NiEgers- II you don't quit
pesdeufin' me, Use EOin' to run
you 50 fast you-n show the bot
toms OF 10 feet 50 much people
VIII think yeu are kneelin' in