Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-04-18

Raised prices at our village cine
mas are rapidly becoming the reg
ular prices.
Music has charms" and orches-
trions vice versa.
FAMOUS MATES.
| Soul
Doug and Mary.
Fannie Hurst and her semi
weekly breakfast friend.
Albuquerque's cli--.
! AS soon as the average man eX-
GELS at anything, his regard for
himself reaches point that il is
difficult for his old friends TO I'M
derstand.
The most autocratic of office
holders will unblushingly proclaim
himself a servant of<the peepul.
but that is just Big Talk, and only
the Small Fry fall for it, -
| "Counterfeiters, yeggs, murder
ers and the like are the only hui
man beings in the wide world who
are telling the truth when they say
they do not like publicity"
I One of our grocers advertises
very candidly:
| MUCH HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT
MAKING LOWER PRICES, BUT
NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE
HERE YOU ARE JUDGE FOR
YOURSELF.
But of course you know what he
meant.
The United States Supreme
Court is being asked to decide
whether or not a clam Is a migra-
tory fish. In case the decision is
affirmative, we may apply it to
crabs and go to Santa Fe for the
summer.
MAIN STREET, by Sinclair
Lewis, is probably the best press
ACCENTED book since Uncle Toms
Cabin. We fell for the press agent
ing, but not for the book.
main otleel IL IL severe affalBn-
ment of small towns. where topics
of conversation cover automobiles
and safety raZors rather than love
and courage" Love" encom-
! passes some other than ones hus-
band. Courage" contemplates
| clandestine meetings and kisses. 1t
proves % the architecture of
Washington and New York is SUI
perior to Gopher Prairie, and C2)
the makeup of a moon-eyed pants
| preSSer is more artistic than that
of country doctor. The philoso-
ply of an ignorant anarchist is
sounder than that of a yappy
preacher, 1t AYERS that country
merchants exist for the sole pur-
pose of Fleeing farmers. Every
thing in a country town is wrong.
| Everybody leaves WHO can get
away. Nobody ever comes back,
| except the fool heroine, which
proves that nobody comes back.
The moral is if you would hold your
wife's affections, learn to like her
rendition of poetry. We've known
women of the type of Mrs. Bogart
and Mrs. Kennicutt and il is be-
cause of them that we, regret the
! scold gag of personal---very. days
was abolished.
| Every now and then the receding
tide leaves something strange on
the sands. A candidate for office
| in Kentucky announces: II am not
! DESTROYS of entering politics. for a
living although l have always been
a Republican.
Admitting that we have heard
I better voices. We thought it rather
unlIind of the evening blast to refer
! to the augmented Floradora Sex
tette as "a screaming (burlesque."
| There are so many of these relief
things going on that they have us
in the state of mind where before
each meal we feel as II we should
ask forgiveness for what We are
about to eat.
Inasmuch as the Boston police
strike put Silent Cal in the vice
1 presidency, we are wondering what
isolation awaits the hero of the Al
lbuquerque firemen's strike.
There is one thing you can say
! for sandstorms," said Tobey Toad
vine as he gathered UP the tumble
weeds, "they sure airrigate the
land"
IT'S A GIFT, FRIENDS, IT'S A
GIFT.
My tummy hurt me something
The pain was growing worse and
worse,
I called In Doctor Klein.
saws he to me, "What did you eat?'
"Naught else,'i says i, "but some
pigs feet,
But doc, they sure were fine"
"Since that is all that gives you
pain,
You soon will be all right again,
Just take this powder. quick"
| | took the powder, II was white,
And in moment felt all right
The powder did the trick.
THAT Is great stuff" said to
Klein,
"But no more piggy's feet for mine,
What was that nostrum, please y