Evening star., 1922-05-28

like 1t is my duty to make same pub
lie SO as others can profit by same
as well as myself and children
Well the other day the boys come
home from school and Bill which is
6 yrs. of age made the announcement
that Of his friends was comeing over
that p. NJ. to play.
Jack Cummings and Peter Smith
and Boody Fowler will be here" he
says. land we are going to have lot
Of fun. But had to do a trick to get
them to come because they didn't
want to come" -.
50 I asked him what was the trick.
We'll" he says. II told them we had
a radio at the house"
So I said that was a fine idear but
what would the boys say when they
got here and found We didn't have no
more radio than a rabbit.
We'll" he says, they will be here
then"
co sure enough the three young vis-
- itors arrived on the seen and Bill
had to tell them we didn't have no
radio and one of them says well
then let US play ball SO they went
ahead and played ball and had good
time and only a few blows struck.
Well friends it looks to me like
the trick was a stroke Of genius on
Bills part and it is trick which any
and all of US can pull off and will go
a long ways towards eliminating So
cial barriers and establishing more
friendly relations between familys in
different walks Of life.
Like for inst. suppose we have got
a netRhbor named Holmes and they
are a little bit. up stage and don't
want nothing to do with US but we
are crazy to mingle with them. Wen
we call them up some night and ask
them over to shoot craps or some
thing. So Mrs. Holmes says she Is
sorry but they can't come on acct Of
having arranged to go in town to
show.
So then I say I am sorry too be-
cause Geraldine Farrar is going to be
here and she has promised to sing Tor
US. So then Mrs. Holmes says well II
you will allow me to change my mind,
why maybe / can get rid OF our
theater tickets and we will be over
about u past 8.
So about 4 past a big high
power Ford drives up to the door and
the Holmes step out and pretty near
kiss us. We set them down in the
parlor and stall around vile and
pretty soon Mrs. Holmes asks what
time is Miss Farrar going to show up.
So then 1 tell her that I am terrible
sorry but Miss Farrar phone about 20
minutes ago to say that she was have
ing a operation for mastoids and
would be laid up for maybe mos.
.DY this time 1t is too late for the
- Holmes to go somewhere else
and you get them in game of craps
or pinochle and treat them friendly
and maybe tell them q couple stories
and they make up their mind that
you amt 90 bad after all and maybe
the next time they will come over
without no decoy.
Or say that they's 4 family named
Bauer that has got the entry to Great
Neck society but they been acting
like you was the pest house and some
night you call them up and say you
wished they would come over as you
have just Necd. a couple bbls. of per
cent beer.
So they come over and you leave
them setting around for or hrs.
nurseing their first and then you ask
them would they like drink and
they say yes and by that time they
ara so dry that they will be tickled
to death when you slip them q pitcher
Of ice water.
If Mr.. Bauer 10 rude enough to re-
mind you of the beer you can tell him
that the kiddies broke in the ice box
and drunk 1t all up but you are ex-
pecting another couple bbls. in a wk.
In this way you Can have the Bauers
at your home once a wk. frothing at
the mouth vile the. rumor spreads
been took up by the Bauers.
around Great Neck that you have
DUT the pretty part of my kids
- trick is that It works both ways.
Like for inst. suppose you are called
up some night by the fuckers who
+aip'g nothing on. Long Island and you
dea't want nothing to do with them