El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-11
CInypoOI, On Vacation, Tells OfTaLks
OUerheardAn,ong Citizens OfEL Paso

terror OF a persons body. It Is
I operated by inserting It in an Incl
sion Once It had tiny electric light
bulb at the end. That is gone. But
the periscope Is not yet valueless. It
F. can be inserted through a keyhole
and through il one can see anything
that happens in the room, providing it
is light enough in the room. Its
owner moves from town TO town and
from hotel 70 hotel and he says he
has seen some Of the funniest things
imaginable. He writhes with mirth
when he tells about il.
Every morning a little old man can
be found on a park bench reading
Bible. He has tuberculosis and does
not doctor himself He reads the
scriptures, prays, and trusts to God
and the climate 10 turn the trick.
BoyH Hold kangaroo Court.
There Is gang Of small boys up
around Cleveland square that con
sists almost altogether Of Tom
SaWyers and Huck Films. Fine boys
all OF them, but they certainly do
fight One morning one OF the boys
got obstreperous and the others tied
him under house and left him all
day. His infraction, the gang said.
consisted in a getting safely within
doors and then in shouting bad names
at his playmates and Of putting the
thumb OF his right hand TO his nose
and weighing his fingers It was all
settled Saturday when the bad" boy
was tried before a kangaroo court
and sentenced to be thumped by a
boy his size The first boy selected
for the job couldn't do IL The sec
ond trimmed him 70 a standstill IN a
bout that lasted about five minutes
back OF the Carnegie library.
Many FL Paso negroes speak fluent
Spanish trailed a patrol wagon
down TO about Third and CamDbeu
streets the other day and found a
black woman talking 10 a Mexican
woman in the Spanish tongue. The
negress was heaving the Latin llnEo
back as fast as she was getting it
and the Spanish talking negress
turned and said:
Hello, dab Sam. how you all gittin'
along oVah TO youah houss2"
One can never tell
Puts II Over on Hubby.
There Is a young woman in Ell
Paso who is putting IL over on her
husband ] don't mean what some OF
the customers think I mean. This
woman and her husband ride around
town a good bit In their car. He is
very fat She Is rather Annette Kel-
lerman style. She loves mountain
climbing. Frequently she climbs TO
the top Of Mount Franklin with
camera and field glasses. Sometimes
she Is more moody and takes a book
OF verses. caught her reading
SWinburne the other day. Il hus-
bands are wise they won't let their
wives read SWinburne. Dangerous. 1 |
insisted on discussing the merits of !
some Of his sentimentalities, when !
the woman pointed warningly and |
knowingly down to a tiny speck /
which she explained was her CORFU
lent spouse, waiting for her in his /
auto.
7 let him 90 TO Juarez. where |
don't care to 60" the little woman /
Informed me- so he lets me climb I
and read poetry"
Fair enough. I told her. Then / 1
told her I was married. too, and loved 4
my wife. ! always do this when 4
find that a woman refuses to be /
It helps one to back and 1
fill
Denver Strike and Bailey.
Lots OF folks in Fl Paso think the
strike and riots in Denver will help
Bailey. Not that he deserves help on /
that account But discussions on
street corners veer that way. One
man. who seemed prominent and ]