Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-20
The Once Over
WHEREIN Mr.. TWTTCHELL's DAY is RUINED

III 10y 6s A. 41A II
WHEREIN MIR. TwTTCHELL's A is RUINED
(scene: Shore cottage Of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Twitchell. 1t is extremely hot. Mr.. Twitchel Is get
ting into his bathing suiD.
Mrs. Tvitcheil: What're you going to dor
Elmer: In gonna peel off and lay around the
beach.
MRS. Twitcheli: You're gonna do nuthin' Of the
kind.
Elmer Cpuzzled): Why not7
Mrs. Twitchen: You know very well what you're
gonna do today.
Elmer: I'm gonna lay around on the beach, I am.
and keep cool.
Mrs. Twitchell resolutely): You're going to the
city with me.
Elmer: what for?
Mrs. Twitchell: To the August Fur Sale.
Elmer painfully: August Fur Sale! Woman, this
amt no day for no August Fur Salel
Mrs. TwitcheIl: We had this all out yesterday and
you promised TO 90 with me and help me pick out q
coat.
Elmer: Would you go in and pick out a fur coat
on a day like this?
Mrs. Twitchell: / don't like the heat any more
than you. but I've gotta have a new fur coat for the
winter and the only way to get one cheap is at the
August Fur Sale. Take your swim, and then hurry
out and dress.
Elmer earnestly We can 90 to the fur sale TO-
morrow. The paper says we'll get showers tonight and
It's be cooler.
Mrs. Twitchell: Don't argue. All the best coats are
picked the first day and you've gotta be there II you
wanna get EN-.
Elmer: Well. you 60 in and get anything you please,
dear: I'm gonna lay around the beach. This heat gets
me. II I amt careful at my age I might get sunstroke
or sunpin'. / might.
Mrs. Twitchen: You always c~riticise anything I
INV Tho 1asf fnr coaf 7 hn.tohf vnii said lnnked Iika
an old sack made out Of the skins Of moth-eaten po-
lice dogs. You told me I should never buy anything
like that without letting you pass on 1t. and today
you
Elmer reebly): I know. but Id be no help to you
today. I amt in the mood. Phewi Whatever you buy
will be okay with me.
Mrs. Twitchell: Yeah? What can I spend?
Elmer: Just be reasonable. that's all / ask.
Mrs. Twitchell (reading from an ADVERTISEMENT:
They run from $3.50 to $500. There's a lovely native
mink reduced to s1050 from $1,000.
Elmer (startied): One coat or by the dozen?
Mrs. Twitchell: And here's a Russian Karakul for
5000. reduced from s1l25.
Elmer beginning to worry: You amt thlnkin' Of
goin' that high. are you?
Mrs. Twitchell: That's not high for a good coat.
Elmer: Amt there anything cheaper than that?
Mrs. Twitchel: It's a very smart coat. Id rather
get something like that and know I was right than
buy something cheap and have you c~riticise II.
Elmer with complete surrender Well. I guess,
maybe I had better 20 in with you and look around.
I'll take a dip and be right out. Don't go without mel
(Curtain).
JUST A GUESS
Henry Ford may build a cup defender. Perhaps
Mr.. Fords interest in international yacht racing is
due to a belief that what 1t did for tea 1t can do for
the Model +.
The Clarke brothers, New York bankers. have been
given prison sentences to run concurrently. and what
the depositors wish is that their losses had been allow
ed to run the same way.
The Duchess of Bedford. aged So. has flown from
London to India and back. driving the plane part Of
the time. England is so air conscious there would be
no surprise now In hearing that Queen Mary was on
her third week in the air.
A bowling ball was taken to President Hindenberg
on the Graf Yep. Possibly the Man Of Irons new
slogan is 10 be Deutschland ueber alleysl
MID-ATLANTIC ARK OTE
Now that brokerage offices are to be a feature OF
all big liners you will hear Of the passenger who took
a seat in front Of the board but never came down un-
til the last day.
And It will OF course introduce the fellow who will
get off the boat with q limp and explain that he was
fin A recession at sea.