The Coconino sun., 1922-06-23

Gordon gin.
 "1t was night when got here and the wind was blowing from down to- wards Yuma and the house was hot and stuffy when 1 unlocked it and lit
 a match to find a lamp or candle long enough to un-gin the box couch before getting out in the open air to | sleep. knew the piano could wait until morning for water, but the gin couldn't. 1 thinks of a pair of pink candles my wife always kept on top of the piano, for ornament and to look at, so l lit another match and turned to light the candles. I had | to laugh. What 1 saw would have made preacher laugh, or even a sour old maid. When we left the candles were standing up still and straight, just waiting for a match and | ready to burn. Not now though. Both of them were hanging over the edge of the sandlestisks, sick, limp and weary looking, with their heads hanging towards the floor in disgust. I managed to light one after turning it bottosmside up and went out in the kitchen to get some water-after un- ginning the box couch-and there on the floor found a big yellow mess in front of the cupboard. No, noth- ing had been in there, but my wife had left a pair of yellow rubber gloves on the cupboard shelf and the heat had melted the fingers all off and they had fallen on the floor. Yes, it really does get little warm here when the sun shines and the wind blows from down around Yuma.
 'I am saving the candles and what is left of the gloves, just to show and prove that 1 am an honest man and Arizona truth is greater than any fiction. was showing them to a lady from Massachusetts the other day and she said: For the land sakes alive! How DO you stand it here?' We Gon't,' I answered, we get like the gloves and candles; that's why the women all go to the coast in the hot ara Gumaresque season."
 AS The Mop says:
 Ed Babbitt, you know, he sells Can't-a-Fords and autos. The other day young lady with a grip in her eye came in to demonstrate herself about an auto and after being shown the dimmers, the hood and the side cUrtains, asked: Well, where Is the cluuch?" (Ed's married and has run many an auto single-handed.) He sorter rotated a moment, but with his heart in his watch pocket emitted the infotmation: Well, really, lady l al- ways found it in the back seat" Mother car sold.
 "E. H." is about all he wanted to give up as his verandah name, so we concluded from his last name the initials stood for Eat 'em Hot consequently why not call Wheat Buck" Wheat? The first time he voted he didn't happen to have his life history along, but got away with ed to know whether he was twenty one he declared: "I've had the seven year itch three times. Kin you fel- lers figger that out?" Bucks sigma ture is like the mark of cat fight on a slate roof. it just the same. When they demand
 Joe Wilson was with us again last week and everybuddy took off their gloves to shake with him. Joe was half-shot-that was a couple of months ago-by accident. He was feeling pretty good, considering, and said the medical buzzards over on the coast agreed to let him keep a few shot just for checking account.
 Colonel Fred S. Breen contributes this:
 It is strange how some people will fall into fortune while others have to struggle along without success but with much effort. Speaking of such things here's a true story of Jap shirt maker in Honolulu in an incon- spicuous location on King street who stumbled into wealth. During the war period he kept ordering goods in Eng land, one order after another for three years without getting the goods. It seems at the collapse of the war the English merchants clerks looking ov- CT their accumulation of orders came across the batch that Mush-Shigi of Honolulu had been sending in, and puzzling awhile, concluded he wanted the whole works, consequently bill- ed it all to him in on shipment. When the overwhelming stock of goods ar rived, Mush- -Shigi was dumfounded Jap without room for it all. He con suited a bright young man on the Honolulu Advertiser as to advertising and said he was willing to pay $30 in cash for some advertising ro see if it would help. The aforesaid bright young man finally convinced him that while the sum mentioned was a "whole bale of kale" to spend so reck- lessly, he would start a progressive campaign to help Mush-Shigi get rid of his burden. AS a consequence a whole series of ads, all as good as the one printed below were strung out from day to day until his little shirt shop was the most famous on the island of Oahu and he was rich Jap. We regret having forgotten the name of the aforesaid bright young man who did the deed. A whole booklet was afterwards published of the ad- vertisements, just for their humorous value. This was one of the ads:
 MUSH-SHIYA, THE SHIRTMAKER