Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-09
The
Once Ouer

AFTER LABOR DAY
The tumult and the shouting dies
The beach queens and their boys
depart
The sign For Sale at Sacrifice"
Restores the cottage to the mart:
The hotel hammocks cease to
creak-
The cupboard motors cease to
roar
The flannel-panted summer sheik
Goes back to selling socks once
more.
Far-called. the bathers melt away
On dune and headland sinks the
mob
Gone are the street pajamas gay,
And faces stained by corn on cob.
The hotel porches cease to buzz
Gone are the goSsips from their
chairs
The Ritzy dame whose posing was
So grand, resumes her household
cares.
The hot dawg". seeks q southern
cline
To sizzle on q roadside fire
Lo! all the pomp Of summertime
Is one with Niniveh and Tyre!
The ice cream stands fold slowly
I'D
The shore dinner cooks retreat
And millions now go home to sup
On food that they can safely eat.
The summer hotel Hobbies are
AS silent as q Pharaoh tomb
flushed Is the poolroom and the
bar,
And gone the folks who want a
room;
stilled is the boardwalk's mighty
The ballyhoo mans voice is
spent
When rings the room clerks tele-
phone
he knows it's all by accident.
The awnings OF each cottage drop
The Greens are slowly slowed
away
The cottage doors are locked by
pop"
Who'll open 'em again In May:
The skiffs and dinghies di--ppear-
AS do q million swi-iminr floats
Gone are the summer tourists queer
Who hop about like mountain
goats.
The seaside jazz bands fade away
The picture postcards a their
flights
flushed are the camps where chill
dren play
And peaceful are the beache.
nights:
The fishermen put up their poles
Their tackle and their skinner
net
And 60 book home to smudge their
with tales Of fin they didn't ge,
The lifeguards abdicate and 60
Back to their college football
teams
Ger hill and dale the flivvers flow
Vacation luggage packed abeam
The summer girls all homewarc
flee
And one thought fills them with
delight:
Each knows for eight months she
WON'T HAVE TO KEEP THOSE
WHITE SHOES WHITEi
They allowed a girl to fly a plane
at Curtiss Field recently after .
hours and 81 minutes OF instruc-
ton. And people contribute money
for safety first campaignsi
Viewing the Wanamaker de luxe
fishing boat sports yacht. to your
over at Greenport the other day
Paul C"Cookies"C Barnett inquired
the purpose of the seat aloft used
for spotting swordfish and was IN
formed by Micky Wrenn that n
was for the "kibltzer."
Some 400 suspects rounded ur
by the New York police as a drive
against gangstera have all been re-
leased again. Well, a good time
was had by all, anyhow.
A man who played in the band
at West Point for thirty years
without skipping a day has re-
tired. His first act presumably will
be TO go to some news reel theater
and see the cadets drill.
r. j. Duffy says that the de-
preston Is so general that Scots
men are now offering a ha'penny
for your thoughts.
G. M. suggests that the depart
ment stores could give employment
to millions by putting them at
work picking the pins out Of mems
shirts.
The country must operate on q
war basis to get out OF Its pres
ent ~predicament says Mr.. Herbert
Hoover in the magazine Clubwo-
man. II wouldn't be bad right now
IL we had bands, parades and
something Ike the peach-nit drive
to take u minds off realities.
It Is said that q certain invest
ment trust has so many frozen
assets that 1t Is thinking or oper-
ating as a hockey rink.
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