Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-04-27
~ Can Tell You There's a Few MIL
lion Dollars Sleeps Every Night Un-
der This Roof"

der This Roof"
l can tell you there's few million
dollars sleeps every night under this
roof. Tom Riley, himself, to begin
with. And they say, Mrs. Kessler.
this hotel amt one-third his holdings"
| you don't say SO! Like to own
such gorgeous hotel amt enough
in ITSELF"
A large ruminative sigh escaped
Mrs. Washauer somewhere from the
deep recesses of her. She was fitting
violently, her head pat back against
the rocker back.
"Yes, yes, Mrs. Kessler, few mill
lionaires lay their heads down under
this roof every night; Tom Riley,
Herman Hirkhimer, Percival Chal-
mers. Isadore Mango. L. Lobenz.
When such men come all from the
East, there's reason.
"Oser"
1.-THE biggest names you find here.
Why, two years ago, right at these
Springs, Mrs. Kessier, came the secre-
tary of state and his wife. Such
plain little woman, not twice would
you look at her. Always she used to
say good morning to me, Just like
Just like was an old shoe, SO unas-
suming she was. And how that man
improved of rheumatic govt Mrs.
Kessler, 1t was q pleasure to watch"
"Say, like I can't see it in my own
husband. Just look at him down
there in the park now. See, standing
by Spring Two, talking with Max
CAM. can tell you when we left
Peoria, oser, such color he had"
"Just look at Max Cans, teo.
There's q boy could afford n he
wanted 1t to 60 twice to Carlsbad, but
every time instead he comes here.
When I met him at home in State
street two weeks ago, yellow AZ your
gold rings he looked"
Zach, I always forgetl You know
Max CAM from Chicago. don't your
Mrs. Washauer threw a wide gest-
ure Of hands and eyes.
do l know Max CAM! Ask him,
Mrs. Kessler, just for fun when you
see him how many times he comes to
Yendla Washauer's Friday nights for
pinochle and rinderbrust. DO
know Max CAM? she asks mel
know him this well, that If l had q
daughter, twice over he could have
her."
"Ain't II so? / always say a young
man like that who, they say, never
sowed any wild oats and was SO good
to his mother while she lived, and on
top Of it all to have built up all alone
such a good business is"
Good business! / can tell you, If
| had a son, right away would I put
him in just such a Ninety-eight-Cent-
Store business. Never 1 put my foot
in the CAM Ninety-eight-Cent Empor-
tum that 1t amt packed like sardines."
Its so funny the way we met him
here at the Springs for the first time,
and right away l should find out his
uncle, Jake Spitz, of Spitz and Spitz
-Feathers-married my sister-in-
Il know, nice people, too. 1 can
only say about Max CAM maybe his
digestion amt so good, but, say, like
he said himself last night, a good wife
can make it better. Eth, Mrs. Kessler,
! eh?"
Zach, Mrs. Washauer, you-you're a
great one to make fun Ny Della amt
got such thoughts yet. Like 1 say to
her papa, she's so full of life, that
girl, it's a shame she should ever got
to settle down."
Believe me, with such a match she
so could set herself down in soft
feathers. can tell you there amt a
mother in Chicago wouldn't pick her.
self out to be his mother-in-law."
Il don't say, Mrs. Washauer, when
Mr.. Right comes along that amt like
every other mother, glad when her
daughter makes a good marriage"
Its just pleasure to see that girl,
Mrs. Kessler, hardly her feet touch
the ground when she walks"
ut amt nothing the way she is
she says, who think they are sick, give
her the blues. But at home. if 1 do
say it, Mrs. Washauer, that girl is
like birdie In the house, singing and
singing. Dancing around, so that even
when her papa 6aS too sick to hold
up his head, didn't the doctor make
her stay in the room to make him
laugh.
IL guess told you, Mrs. Washauer
the time, though, we had to make her
come along to the Springs with u.s.
All Of sudden, Mrs. Washauer, q
girl that don't got to turn her hand,
except always learnt her to make
her own bed on washday, all of q
sudden that girl makes up her mind
business woman she wants to be-"
"It's all the style now, Mrs. Kess-
Ter, for girls to learn business or kill
their time in the social settlement
work"
"Stenography and shorthand that
girl had to learn and 1 can tell you
her papa was mad enough"
II always say it don't hurt a girl
to know how to make her own living,
even II she don't need 1t. God forbid
anything should ever happen she amt
SO helpless, God Forbid ,.......
But for why, l ask you, Mrs. Wash
auer, should our Della work? l don't
say her papa Is such rich man. Mrs.
WaShauer -but-but-" .....-. .
Don't know how Marcus Kess-
ler's daughter don't got to work for
her living unless she wants itT'
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