Evening star., 1933-06-04

"The other night she was telling something-I
think it joke She didn't seem to have
it straight, or something. Maybe she forgot
half of it. Anyway, wasn't listening close"
Did she aim it to be joke?"
81 didn't ask her"
"Lolas got to making jokes-what mean,
awful jokes"
"A fellow was telling me the other day a
story maybe you never heard"
II mean," Mr.. Todd interrupted "I don't
mind if your wife's got something to say that's
funny. Let her say it! But the way Lola is,
she's pulling puns'
'Puns?"
~ /ELL, you take this morning I said to
w her, said 'Phil-thats Phil Pfeiffer
II said, Phil's going to Chile What
does she come back with but, Chile come back
soon?'"
Whats he going to Chile for?" Conny
asked. "He hasn't got any business in Chile"
Il don't know what he's going to Chile for"
Mr.. Todd explained impatiently. What I
mean. that's what Lola came back with
Chile come back soon?'"
"Chile come back soon?" Conny looked puz-
zled You mean that's all there was to what
she said just. Chile come back soon?'"
That's it," Mr.. Todd stated triumphantly.
There's not any sense to it. not real sense.
What she meant-shall he come back soon?-
Chile come back soon? See?"
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not the cutest thing-'Chile come back soon?'
Howard, that wife of yours is as smart a
whip sometimes Chile-who ON earth else
would ever have thought of that?"
Well" Mr.. Todd hesitated, thrown trihe
of the track by this unlooked-for applause,
you look at it one way and. yes. it is sort
Of cute but you look at it another way and
it's Just pun, that's anr
'What've you got against puns?"
We'll" said Mr.. Todd reluctantly, "I was
reading an editorial in the paper the other day.
and it said the pun was the lowest form OF
humor"
Newspaper talkl" Conny dismissed MFR.
Todds pride in two words.
"You want May going around cracking rotten
jokes?"
do have to listen?" Conny comtered
what about other people?"
Conny gave this contingency a fair consid-
Grafton.
NO" he said then, MAY couldn't get any
body to listen to jokes the way she tells them"
It was scarcely possible for Mr.. Todd to
regard the discussion as a very satisfactory one
Thinking it over during the afternoon he was
compelled to confess to himself, however that
he could not really say what he had hoped to
get out of it. except understanding perhaps.
And it may be said here that but for one
eventuality this smoldering uneasiness of Mr..
Todds might have trailed off into event.
less vagueness. This eventualty the party
that evening at the Campbells'.
1t was to be, for him, no ordinary party; it
held very definite hope for profit. Among
the guests. he understood, would be old Car
Isle r. Asbury of ASburys, Inc, and in As
burys, Inc, there was at that very moment
the opening of a lifetime, and Mr.. Todd wanted
to fill that opening Here, he had reflected
many times since the invitation came,
going to be a golden opportunity for an able
and ambitious young man to make favor
able impression.
Going home late that night in his long black
limousine, old Carlisle r. would remove the
long, imported cigar from his mouth, smell the
orchids in the cut-glaSs and say to Mrs
Asbury:
THAT young man Todd tonight impressed
me I have never been impressed before. He
ing"
His wife is a charming creature too" Mrs
ASbury would remark
Indeed, she is! A nice quiet attractive girl
the kind of helpmate young man needs.
Didn't say much, but you could that she
cannot use too many young men like that.
must certainly drop him line"
Il invited them to tea Thursday" Mrs. As
bury would say.
Excellent! I'll get away from the Office and
be there. just seeing a sweet, ld-fashioned
girl like that renews my faith in the youth Of
today. Be sure to remind me of it Thursday
morning.
h low there came to Mr.. Todd most ghastly
picture. He had a Mortified vision of
Lola bounding about the Campbells' house
that evening making wise cracks and blasting
old Carlisle r. with plain and fancy varia-
tions of Chile come back soon?
@WeN!' the old man would say in his
limousine as he removed the long cigar and
smelled the orchids in the cut-glass vase did
you ever run up against ANYTHING like that2"