The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-07

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20 tell us, sir!" the people cried,
please tell us why Bill Gabel died!" 80.
The youth sped onward on his track
Then this faint word was waited back:
"Sapolio!"
SEEKER of information asks the Chicago
Daily News if the son and daughter, respec-
lively, Of two step-sisters. having the same
father but different mothers" may marry.
Which prompts US to remark that it's wise
father who knows his own step-child.
LETTAIRE FOR re TIM.
Charmant Tim:
You give to me re fatter'! You tink for
make my head to swell up yes? But that you
cannot to do-eet ees SWELL even now. Re
DENTS have make it to swell! Re dentis' are
not YER populaire among me.
have not re regret for thees toot'-as a
toot' eet nevaire come to re expectation, en-
verte But ze session wiss re dentis'-HE come
to re expectation. yes-an'. how you say?-an'
ZEN SOME, n'eSt-ce pas?
Eef you desire to fin me, Tim, make re
search for re gentleman wiss re swell head!
LIE MOQUEUR-
P. S.. But forget-you would have me re
lady. Eli bien, you to look for re lady-Peg
to look for re gentleman. ITEMS! Do not
search among re SWELL heads-zere are SO
many an you become confuse!
REPORTED by c. M-the story Gin the
American Legion Weekly of the Irishman who
returned to Dublin for visit Perhaps you
haven't heard it. Pat doubtless his name
was Pat or Nike became ennuied while in his
hotel room and decided to stir up bit of ex-
citement, SO he stuck his head out the window
and yelled, Fire! Fire!"-and somebody did
Gosh! What an Awful Name to Call Cow!
From The Argus Info Bureau]
@. What is the right method to find
whether cows have tuberculosis?
N. E.
A. Cows should be given the tuber-
culin test The most frequently used
method is the subcutaneous test. The
! tuberculin is injected underneath the
skin, and if it causes fever the animal
is tuberculosis.
| ACCORDING to mas information bureau the
waltz became popular on the continent early
| In the 18th century and introduced into Eng
land in 112". The first seventeen or eighteen
hundred years were the hardest,
AT last Maid Marian's pitiful plea to hear
once more from Red is answered. Read below
Marian, and be comforted-or something
Chapters from the "reminiscences Of
DuOgenerian.
| w. FLOYD DELL
When last summer, Just after the success
OF Moon Calf, Floyd Dell visited the tri-cities
to be entertained by the plowshare aristocracy.
perched like robber barons in their castles on
the ciif1s was not among those invited to
meet hlm But intellect laughs at
formal dinners and dress SUITS
1t SO happened that one evening during
DelPs stay here went with several friends tn
dance at Watch Tower
And it further happened that before the eve
ming was far advanced man dressed in white
| trousers and dark coat with long wavv h.ir
and sardonic but understanding nose and
mouth entered with a lady. That
mar, that nose, that mouth, that easy, sophisti-
Gated air remembered them all from a late
copy of Vanity Fair.
watched the couple for a dance and then
said to my partner, See that chap over there
with the white trousers and all the hair?'
| yes"
well. I believe that that's FLOYD Dell. She
agreed that it might be.
Then We danced around the room till W.
were beside Tom and Beatrice. "See that chan
I over there, with tho white trousers ana ali
/! the hair?' ~
They looked.
We'll. l believe that it's Floyd DELL.
FLOYD DELL" Tom fairly yelled it ont.
We had both just read Moon Calf. but he was
vastly more impressed with it than I, Tom A
voice carried we'll and was not surprised a
little later when saw the two strangers sin
out Of the ball room very much as il thew had
been recognized when they had wished to re-
main incognitb. was sure then that it was
Dell. But l saw him no more that
night, nor ever again until
was standing one morning in front Of
the Harper house waiting for Fourth avenue
car. 1t arrived, but before it had discharxed
all Its passengers. saw among them the hair
and the sophisticated manner, clad this time
in dark suit. $500.
determined to follow the man and make
sure that he was the author I believed him
West ON Second avenue he turned. clo.a
behind him. did not have to follow him far
| only four blocks. for at about Fifteenth street
| he entered barber shop.
followed. to watch genius beneath the
clippers
The shop was empty Of customers and he
! Immediately removed his coat, which he hung
/ on rack against the wall. Then instead OF
removing his collar, he donned white coat
took tool he stand md beside chair, esetoned to me
THE chairman Of q reformers' COMMITTEES
In Newport News, Va, says that bootlegging in
cigars. cigarets and soda fountain drinks OF
Sunday b Just a. bad = bootlegging in hooch
AND No doshe M>a1y slisoist would pro
oo1nce In insanas = Ak r r ND
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