Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-03
The Once Over

BY n. Z. PHILLIPS

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Labor Day, S .. Unloading Of tivver preparatory
to take-off for home Is now under way. Proceedings
complicated by problem Of how to get six people. .
dog, four ~suitcases. an cupboard motor. = canoe. three
golf bags, q photograph, two boxes Of dishes and Tev-
eral baskets containing cooking utensils, electric hat
irons. etc. etc, into a car designed for four people
and an overnight bag. A delay seems probable.
~5:so-violent verbal storm raging over question
whether 1t Is better to put mother. children and dog
into car first and stow luggage around them or put
luggage In first and stow mother, children and dog
around them. AL hope Of a hop-of by 6 p. m. now
abandoned.
5:45-Problem solved by decision to throw passen-
gers and baggage into car simultaneously.
5:55-Mutiny aboard. Mother fatty refuses 70
make entire trip holding Juniors cupboard motor IN
her lap.
8 p. ms. O. G. Hop-off now seems likely any
moment.
tying canoe to top Of car wit hold rlothesline. Junior
proposes tying mother and the baby on top Of car and
slowing canoe inside where II viii be rafe.
s:2O-Hop-off now being attempted.
6:25-Hop-off held up. Mother suddenly an
nounces she forgot to pack fathers blue business suit.
6:3O-Blue suit, vacuum-cieaner md hox-lunch
now aboard okay. Everything ready. We have taken
off for home ut last.
6:45-Homeward flight Of the vacation flivver
Graf Painintheneck" interrupted. Father recalls he
left his keys on cottage table. Return necessary.
7:l5-Flight under way again with everybody very
sour. Looks like n rough trip.
7:3o-Disaster now threatening ship. Sudden shift
of cargo huries back-seat passengers. Mother. two
girls and dog caught under fisfing-box. ~Euitcases,
photograph. loose kitchen equipment and golf bags.
Babys eve cut. Much hysteria. Doubt =. we can con-
tinue.
.. m.-Cargo righted. Passengers nearly righted-
Proceeding under half speed In very heavy traffic
Father is feeling the rtrain.
s3o-FIight halted by complete traffic tie-up as
far as eye can see. Making about so yards per hour
through heavy gas clouds. Driver behind insists upon
keeping thumb on musical horn. Father wants 70
know which bag his revolver Is in Trouble Is feared
45-Have gained a block and n half. Juniors
canoe slides of top Of car and drops across radiator
Of limousine behind. Great excitement. Owner VI
limousine wants Junior to pay for paint scraped oil
auto. Junior wants man to pay for paint scraped off
canoe. Father takes hand in argument. Man calls
father a bum. Father calls man a fathead. Junior.
In lifting canoe back onto roof of flivver. loses control
and it slides off and through windows Of = right
seeing bus. knocking an ear off middle-aged lady
asleep in her seat. The situation is alarming.
.. m-Junior yanks canoe out Of bus and tears
off the lady's other car. Driver OF car behind itnl
blowing musical horn. Traffic tie-up now 100 per
cent perfect. Bus driver demands fathers name and
address. Father too far gone TO recall either. 5us
driver shakes fist at father. Dog bites bus driver.
e:ls-Motorcycle cop comes alongside md orders
father TO pull over to side Of road. Father discovers
ne is out Of yas and can't pull over.
s:2O-Motorcycle cop arrests father for ignoring q
police order.
9.2l-Father bites policeman.
s:22-Trip temporarily abandoned.
GOING UP
In ordering bloomers give your bust nesaure-
ments. Our bloomer sizes are based on bust measure
ments."-Mail order house catalogue.
My goodness. are they wearing EN- that high this
year?
Ina Dodo. back from two months at n tummer
boarding house. Is refusing any really tender food
during September. Il couldn't stand en- abrupt
change from the tough cuts" she explains.