The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-05

CapPy" qnsued :. Augustus re.
driL % tho West Coast Trading Com.
panN why don't you eat come.
thingT'
Tho president emeritus % the Hue
Star Navigation Co. hnG the Isirks
Losing and LAUNDERING o.. had ap.
pearct a. usual az the Round Table
u tho BllEewaier club for luncheon.
but had ordered nothing Instead he
had torn the heart out Of a alice az
bread and bad huslod himself making
bread pills and shooting them az the
adjacent cuapidor.
I'm TOO sick 70 eat" Cappy re-
piled drcarily,
you do not look m" Ulysses
Gruhh defended
My looks bslis the real situation.
I permitted myself 60 get very angry
this morning. and that a. something
no sane. woll,balanccd man should
90. AZ a result"
Hear him." Eddie smith, The
Insurance man. Interrupted lie
permitted himsalf 10 Eet very an.
cry this morning. Why. you old
fnur.flusher," he continued.
threatening 10 throw a French
roll AZ the old gentleman. you
ny off the handle forty times a
day"
Il DO not" cappy shritled. "Yoa
don't know anything about II. I
might let or steam 40 times day,
but that's my privilege. everybody
In the office realizes Il and ntbOdy
pays a hit OF attention 20 me any.
how. They know Il does mo good 90
let on steam. nut ! 90 net get really
angry once n year. because when that
happens 20 me Il upaots my liver
and when my liver Il upset my diEcs.
ton follows suit. Then I get a violent
headache and tho day becomes a
total less. Added 10 my physical sur.
fering. I suffer mentally.
II reyiie myself because I have
been such an asa an 20 let 20 my.
hoen such an asa as 20 lot go Of
myself. because know that
losing ones temper 20 the point
Of becoming furiousiy angry.
IL n sign Of mental and Epir.
itnal weakness. OF course. there
are men who can knock their enemy
into the gutter. smile, while They're
doing II and never lose their temper.
but have never me; such n man In
all the seventy.eight years ! have
been taking tho sings and ARROWS %
outrageous fortune over tho bows.
Such supermen exist only IN novels.
They're too dog Eoned good 20 be
true. and n true they arc inhumhn
and I wouldn't trust ono % them
with my last years straw hat"
you never had a lRst years straw
hat" J. Augustus Redell reminded
cappy. I've snown you since I got
my first pair Of long pants and you
wear a Eilk hat the year round"
"shut up-' cappy rasped. You're
too technical"
wei. tell US what made you 20
angry"
"a man WHO IL 80 ctisscd mean
he has spoiled his own life his
wifo's. hh ehildrrn's, every en-.
ployec IN his otIice-and nine.
refer 10 old man McTavish Of tho
Green Funnel Llno-the bare.
shanled. old Scotch thistle That
old bandit Is 30 low down I've
could wear my top hat and walk
under n snake without bending"
Cappy ceased making brradpllis
and glanced at each mrrnber Of
the BilErwaier club In turn "Aii
you boys know MeTayish. do you
motif"
An present nodded. and cappy
walled on. And you arc all aware
that tho day before yesterday the
switchboard opeYtors OF tho local
telephone company went out on
strike
Are we aware OF it7'' rrcaned J,
August RedeIl. II haven't made car.
fare since those awful girls walked
out. That strike Is costing me a
thousand dollars n day. Just can.
mot do business without n telephone.