Evening star., 1925-07-05

A S Calliope, that ancient Greek
~ poetess, used to say in her
"A Daily Hints to Young Women,
4 \ Look out for promising young
men. especially the very prom
ising ones who will promise anything
And only the other day l was saying
TO George, that's my husband, how
true that is, not alone OF men but of
European nations.
The subject come up over that Joe
Bush of the Hawthorne Club, and the
hundred iron-men George had parked
with him. thinking it was one of
these parking for 80 days only propo-
sitiOnS. But that was where George
made his mistake, on account the
money seemed to of gone into dead
storage instead.
And it's most peculiar thing, but
before this accident occurred, that
Joe Bush would call us up pretty near
every evening, or drop in on us, and
now instead he would get the drop on
us when he seen us on the street and
duck. While as for calling us up,
why Hot Bozo! we did all the calling,
but when we says hello, Joe, is that
you, there was never nobody home
except some foreigner named Dontans-
ser, or so Central claimed.
So after about a month. or 81
days of this, | says to George, amt
good comes Of loaniug money to
friend not unless you are trying to
pick a fight with him.
Here you are always trying to make
me cut down expenses, anybody
would think they was wildhowers
and l could do it with a penknife, l
says, but yet you go and loan that
Bush feller hundred good American
long Green Trading Stamps, and what
does it get you? 1t gets you in wrong
with your best friend, that's all, why
don't he pay up?
Well. says Geo. maybe 1t is because
he amt got the money! I tell you
what, Jennie. he says, if you can
think UP some substitute for money
that can be used for paying debts, why
femme know. At least you got to give
Joe Bush credit for being honest.
And l says believe you me, credit
of any kind is the last thing I'd give
him, l got too much sensei And then
l marched back out into the kitchen
W&ere l was putting some clean news
papers onto the shelves under the pots
arIfd pans, and while in the act my eye
fell on piece about Sec. Kellogg.
It's funny thing, but when q
newspaper is laying around the par
lor, or on the breakfast table, about
all l think concerning it is to get it
cleaned up SOS the room will be more
tidy. But l don't actually throw them
papers out, l lay them on the back
porch in case of having a new rug
10 put them under, a bad chest to put
them over, a fire to light, a bunch
of garden flowers to send away, or
any of them chief uses us ladies has
for the daily press. And every onct
in a while, when putting them on
a shelf, or using them to wipe fat
iron, or something, I will get the
chance to pick UP a little news, and
cleaning up the kitchen shelves as
per see above is how l come to be so
well acquainted with the foreign debts
situation.
WELL, it seems that this Sec. Kel-
logg had been getting after our
eX-allies with a long bunch of notices
He had tried everything all the way
from the conventional beginning of
any bill-collector career, sending 'em
a few of what the French call Bill-a-
dues, down to the less gentle re-
peaters reading doubtless this ac-
count has escaped your attention" He
had gone on to please remit, this is
long overdue" and from there to IAN
immediate settlement is required"
AS a rule, with the average Am.
family them are the words to a far
from popular tune, it's too familiar