Evening star., 1924-10-12

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IL Chris would grow up to be
Chief 1nquisitor or merely go
into Uncle Tony's Spaghetti Factory,
one OF the most pop indoor sports
known to parents has been deciding
what their kid will be when il grows
up, and ] and George. that's my hus-
band. amt without this particular
home grown human weakness.
We was going at it good and strong
the other afternoon while getting
ready for that Joe Bush of the Haw
thorne Club and his wife to drop in
on US. 1t being Columbus day, why !
suppose the Joe Bushes got those
Restless Holiday Blues and decided
to run over and call. and we having
nothing to do with ourselves. why We
was permitting it.
But not without due precautions
as Geo had received from a friend in
Havana. Texas. a big box Of cigars
and in a thoughtless moment he had
dragged to Joe about them cigars,
with the net result Joe was trying to
smoke up the net cigars. That Joe
Bush certainly has taking ways.
Well anyways, Geo. says by cracky
I amt going to have him stacking
himself UP like a cartridge belt with
them smokes this time, he says, / be-
lieve ! will stick them into the pia-
nola.
And / says for heavens sake no, if
you do. that will be the first thing
JOEL open. put them in the bottom
of the waste barket until he's gone
nobody will find 'em there
And George put them there, and as
he done SO he run into some ething
Junior had been building on the floor
out Of vacant shoe box, two bricks,
pair OF old shoe trees and empty
alarm clock. You know the cute way
kids will make playthings out of
trash and trash out of playthings.
Geo. pretty near broke his neck
over it, but instead of getting sore,
why he merely says lookit what that
boy of mine has been up to. will you,
that kid is smart if l do say SO, say
Jennie, I think that boy Of mine is
going to be a engineer. he says.
And 1 says. yeh. L notice when he
does anything smart he is your SON.
but leave him do something bad and
you will commence yelling hey Jen-
ME look it what that kid Of yours
has been doing again.
AS for him being a engineer I says
that is all nonsense, l says, because
he's going to be principal of a high
school, / says, 1 got it all planned
out.
Anyways, that boys got genius,
says George.
Well. I says, I noticed This tongue
was little coated this morning, but
| hope he amt got anything as bad
as that.
And George says / dunno, he says,
sometimes l think he's going to be
President, and then again 1 think
he's going to be hung. But he amt
an ordinary boy, 1 can tell you that
right now.
WELL, for once 1 and George
agreed perfectly on something.
One day Junior would certainly be
great. and realizing this got me to
wondering how it would feel to be
the mother Of a famous man, such,
for a sample, as Christopher Columbus.
OF course I realized where it was
a awful responsibility to have that
a worry Chris must have been to her.
Probably the family and friends
didn't half appreciate him at first.
neither. / hear where his folks come
from small town. and out there 1t
is more then likely the neighbors
talked lot about him to the effect
aw the big bum, lookit the way he is
always running of to discover for
eign countries, why don't he stay
Aoune anu uo soIHe real Worh' anu
such ct certeras. as Hot Bozo! does
he think he'll ever get away with a
new real estate development way out
there in America, why nobody'll ever
go way off there to live.
Probably even his personal appear
ance got cooked over. with remarks
such as the poor sap what's he want
to so bob his hair like that for. he'd
look a whole lot better with boyish
bob then with the kind he's got. And
that kind of apple sauce, see:
Well, I'll bet his Ma believed in
him Anyways in spite of him doing
such d. lot of crazy things like try
ing to make his three minute egg
stand on end at breakfast. / don't
remember did he try to make that