Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19

cat, especially after you COM
menre TO feed it So my advice
to young girls is, he careful what You
eat, even when your sheik is paving
for the meal, if you want to keep
his love.
/ don't mean a girl should always
read the right hand side to the Dill
of-farc first when he takes her OUT.
on account no man Yet ever thousht
more Of girl who cost him less. II
you get me--not until after they are
married, anyways. He kind of eS-
poets her to be not alone a jewel of
a great price and etc, but menu or
the same.
And ever since some mean crab
started a rumor in the [. :. A. that
in order to be good looking woman
has to be thin, why the whole country
has got to believing it
The subject come up to me one eve
ming when George, that's my husband.
returned home with q mind full OF
what he thought of the office.
1t seems that there was some lodge
a lot of the office force was in, al
nobody had as yet spoke to Geo.
about joining 1t. not that he cared
anything about such things, he
wouldn't join If he was asked, but he
would of liked the chance to refuse.
Somehow he felt like leaving the
whole Office fiat and taking up
proposition he had heard of to go
over to Turkey for a canned cram
berries firm. Yes, he had half
mind to.
And 1 says you got half a mind,
that is correct, George, you said a
mouthful. But you will go to no Tur-
key, l don't sec myself living in any
Harem or going around marketing
dressed like a lady Klansman.
No. sir, l says, all the Turkey we
will have associated with this family
will be on the last Thursday in No
vember. 1 says, and If you stage any
fight and get canned, 1 says. why
canned salmon will probably be what
we will have, instead.
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WELL. Geo. has a great way Of
w fighting his chief in the bath
room while shaving, and each time
the safety razor give him a dig. why
he passes it on to the boss. And while
the talk as per see above was going
on, he was doing this and l was try
ing on a clean wash dress. and try
ing was about as far as had got.
This dress, see, was a good one I
had been saving, and now when l
come to put it on it seemed to of
shrunk something awful. With it half
way on, 1 felt like a Puritan in the
stocks. 1t was good linen and l Won
dered what on earth the laundress had
done to it. Then all at once I realized
it wasn't her, but me, that was the
trouble.
For some little time past ] had re-
fused to go anywheres near any scales,
even to clean a fish. OF course, / had
realized where I was getting little
heavier. and so I had gone easy on my
diet. Well, anyways, 1 had gone with
out all fattening things except when I
wanted them real bad, but this dress
business give me a shock. What with
wearing my dresses tied down around
the narrowest part Of me with a loose
string, had been kidding myself out
of all proportion, and now 1t seemed
like / must face either a remedy or a
future as fat lady with a circus.
Well, 1 had noticed plenty of read
ing matter about getting thin, and up
to now had hastily turned away from
it before it could really depress me.
But when l made up my mind to re-
duce, why looked these pieces up.
and the first one I read was about a
rolling-pin-
It seems that If a person got q roll
ing-pin and took up tho old. childish
game Of Patacake, Patacake Bakers
Man, using the part you wanted to re-
duce as a substitute for the cake. the
fat would actually roll away.
Well, 1 thought, that is easy, and
/ bought me a rolling-pin the same
day. The clerk says are you going
to get married when he wrapped it
up. but / was past the stage when I
minded a little kidding, and l took
it home and commenced at once.
Well. I lost a lot all right Six
hairpins, my temper and one handle
or the pin. But, my avoirdupois
stayed just ~ poised as ever.
told my friend. Mrs. Joe Bush.
about it, and she seen at once that ]
had the wrong dope. A