Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-10-08
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THE BooTLEGGER's CORNER
intoxicating Facts About
Interior Decorating.
M, r. 8.

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remarked to a group of friends at
club the other day that was going
to write more sensible columns from
now on.
"Oh don'tl" they all exclaimed,
"we'd much rather you'd just be ma
tural!'
And there you arel Still, Shake
speare mot Mrs. Adams son-in-law,
but the original old Bill himself) con-
tends that 1t takes brains to be fool.
Yes, but whose brainsp
Be that as 1t may, however, I seem
suddenly to have lost my interest in
Interior decorating. There are SO many
Intoxicating facts" that have Moth
ing whatever to do with the depart
ment of the interior that I find my
self constantly being sidetracked
Perhaps my unrest is caused by a
recent copy Of The Pine Cone, from
Carmel, which contains that brilliant
column called 1.-THE Boojum." To those
of you who object to my being called
the bootlegger, how would you like a
name like thatp And the illustration
that goes with it! The Boojum wears
spectacles and spats, carries pen in
it's forepaws, and has a bell on its
tail. But In looks and method only
do we differ. The Boojum never uses
q provincial nor bucolic en-, but he
does discuss the same type of things
that l do. He is, take 1t, the writer's
subconscious self, but far from re-
naming In the realms Of the sub
sconscious, have known him to dis
cuss the inadequacy Of his study table
and the loquacity OF BARRIERS with the
same fervor might employ in extoll-
ing the fine points Of my dog. Oc-
casionally he does comment on politics
or topics Of the day, and I might do
well to immitate him in that respect.
Though were to try to discuss politics
1t would be like Ghandi trying to tell
housewives how to make cream puffs-
unless of course there is cream puff
that can be made of goats milk. But
on second thought, goats milk doesn't
have cream! Famous Ghandi, with
his goats milk, his day Of silence, and
his one shirtl Well, If dearth Of shirts
constitutes fame, before this jobless
winter is over shall be more widely
known than he.
But pause to answer the phone
Mr.. Neil Flenner, the eminent, or
should say imminent, golf champion
speaking? He informs me that he is
going to bring his airdale pup over to
lick mine. 1t had better be soon then
thought I had toy fox terrier, but
he has, find, wire haired tail, and
a bulldog grip, with rat terriers
propensity for shaking the tar out OF
cats. He has gained four ounces, an6
| grown an inch in the past week. His
dimensions are now eleven and hall
inches by one and seven Fights pounds
When we get through with that air.
dale we'll give Mrs. Penny's pup a
whirl. She complains that her dog has
no chance to get in the newspapers
since she's not bootlegger. If she'll
watch the obituaries she'll probably see
his name before long-after we've
gained a few more ounces.
But wasn't going to mention that
pup this week-I was going to tell
about my first trip to Seattle on the
bus. don't know yet why went
clear down to California for entertain
ment-I got barrel full Of 1t on the
way to town the other dry There
was the genial man In the back seal
that kidded my mothers patriciar
little friend because she tried to wall
up the step in the floor of the bu.
without lifting her feet. He told hel
there was bird called the peacock
that never watched Its feet either
And all that without an introduction
He got his "comeuppance" later, how
ever, when, just as he was rising tt
make his way towards the door, tn,
bus stopped for red light. He skid
ded across the floor and abrupt.
terminated my interesting converse
ton with the lady next to me b.
landing In her lap or thereabouts.
Excuse me, I'm Laplander today
he remarked jovially, as he departed
Then there was the stampede all tn
women made when we reached FRS
and Marionl They didn't want to g
down on the railroad tracks-the