Evening star., 1925-01-11

N without, so far as is known,
IN any first name, used to say,
When you wanner get out OF
something you have said, Quoth
She Raven, or the Parrot, and then'
never nlore-swear off?'
am real fond of them great hys-
terical truths which the poets OF the
ages has handed down to time, and
done time on account of, and etc,
and this particular one occurred 10
mo the other night when something
happened which commenced with
George, that's my husband, coming
home and hanging up his hat with
slam. Whenever l hear his Kelley
crash up against the hat tree in the
hall. l know that in some way or
another the only thing that's been
letting him have his own way is the
bathroom scales.
Well anyways, this night I says
well dear did you have a good day,
and he says good for what, l seen
Old General Bluster down to his office
this morning, and whatter you think
he told me?
Well. being a lady, didn't care to
think too clear, on account it evil
IDENTIFY was what men call plain Ian
guage but we ladies term it fancy, TO
say the least. So I merely says what
did the old brute do to you dear?
So Geo. worked hisself up and he
says well, you know he told me
could have that house and lot over
on Goolash Avenue as soon's l could
get five thousand cash. and you
know how we have saved to gether
up that bunch of green henrys. and
what a fine investment it would be
for us, and now the old tightwad has
decided he won't let 1t go, he'd rather
hold 1t, property is going up out
there
And says why the mean old thing.
whatll you do with the money now
And here was where Geo. give me a
big surprise.
He pulled a highly manicured book
let out his pocket with the picture
OF a steamer on it and he slapped it
down onto the table
Well. he says, all my life 1 have
wanted to take a trip around the
world, and now I am going to not
alone trip, but fall. We got the cash.
and the catalogue, and now all we
got to do is get ready. Just give a
o. look at this.
Well, just about then the tele-
phone rung, and Geo. says L will
answer 1t, and went out in the hall
TO, while I set down and took slant
at the book. OF course, / had ideas
about this 'round-the-world stuff, too.
To commence with, my chief and
pretty near only objection to 1T was
that it had to be done on boat. l
and boats don't work together so
good, anyways not from my point of
view, which is generally toward the
water a good deal of the time.
OF course, I had read in the ads Of
them cruises where these boats had
cabins de looks. But I had a feeling
l wouldn't hardly be looking enough
while on board for that to be any
comfort to me.
X X X x
THEN, again, I was kinda scared of
l. boats for another reason, which
was that a feller I onct knew got ar
rested aboard ship and had to serve
out some kind of nautical term.
But, lust the same I realized where,
Sust as The ads claimed, this was the
opportunity of a lifetime to see the
world before it all got Broadwayized.
And as 1 commenced looking over
the pretty picture book Geo. had left
me with I made UP our mind firm that
we wouldn't let this trip be no ordi-
nary one. We was going to see lot
Of things on it which the regular
tourists don't.
When we got to China we was go
ing clear up to Chop Suey and see the
factory, and in India l wanted to go
all the ways to the sauce of that
sacred river, the Ghandi, but We
wasn't going anywheres near Nautch,
where them Nautch girls come from.
l don't like any man to be too edu-
Gated by going abroad, especially my
husband.
OF course, doped out that in Japan
the natives was undoubtedly a won
derful little people, but if II was true
they actually went right out in the
streets in their kimonos it would be
a terrible shock.
But I would try and get used to 1t,