The Washington times., 1938-05-18

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ward. Pop wasn't woman ha
to death of 'em.
The Boulevard really is one OF
the most fascinating unSung
streets in America. It's one of the
main arteries into the city, a
broad, gaily lighted avenue lined
with eucalyptus, pepper trees,
Monterey cypress, hot dog stands,
dog kennels, lion farms, dairy
farms, turkey ranches, who knows
what elsa vast market place
eight miles long, teeming literally
with milk and honey and a hun
dred other products of a fat and
lush countryside. Mite spots, too,
where folks come to dance and
gossip and sometimes sip stronger
beverages than tea or coffee.
DeadfallS, the natives call them,
traps for unwary city folk on the
loose,
FRIENDLY RIVALRY
Pop Pugsley operated hot dog
stand, a clean and inviting place,
painted all the more violent colorS,
such as scarlet, indigo blue, deep
purple" and several shades of vel
low and green. Bee and her huS-
band, Jerry, owned similar en-
porium across the street and up
the Boulevard a little way.
Jerry used to be strong man
in a vaudeville act and Bee had
been his stooge. In some local.
ties business rivalry such as eX-
listed between Pop and the welded
pair might have led to unfriendly
personal relations: not on the
Boulevard. Pop caught the in
coming trade, Jerry and Bee the
outgoing, and at the end of an
average day the two added up
about fifty-fifty and everybody
prospered.
Bees sister, Edna, came from
Chicago to visit and stayed on and
on, liking the climate and the easy
life. Naturally enough, Bee
launched a campaign to undo
Pop, who, being cruSty old
bachelor crowding so, constituted
a living challenge to the entire
feminine sex.
80 you want me to give your
sister a job, eh?" said Pop when
Bee came over one dull afternoon.
SIS she purty?"
mo, Pop, Edna amt what I'd
call pretty. But she's a whole
some girl, if you get what I mean
strong, willing and able"
Il pay my help three dollars a
day and they get their money
every night at quitting time" said
Pop. What dimes they pick up in
the way of tips are their own.
"a girl that works here has got
to be spry. She's got to be on her
own business. I mean, don't
want no truck with no fly young
chits that's amin to swish and
flirt around"
"Oh, dear me, Pop, Edna's past
80 and a regular old maid
already"
You don't tell me! Send her
over and I'll see if we can make
q deal"
Edna went over, primed with
sound advice and fortified by a
pair of SpectacleS that she didn't
need. Bee felt that something had
to be done because Edna really
was only % and much too hand
some a girl to pass muster under
the critical eye of Pop Pugsley.
MULES AND FEMULES"
Pop hired her-but only after
delivering a homily-his favorite
discourse anent humankind.
Human critters" he told Edna,
els divided into two parcels, mules
and femules. am mule but the
fact that you are a femule don't
mean that you got to be as stub
born and ornery as me because I
am from Kentucky three genera
tons back. Your job here is to
wait on the trade. Yonder back
of the counter is the kitchen The
help around here is allowed in the
kitchen but no fu'ther because
fu'ther is where I live myself and
the word with the bark on it is
keep out. Understand"
Edna understood and was
piqued. She got through her first
days work around midnight, peck
eted the SO that Pop handed her,
and crossed the street where Bee
was sitting up waiting for her to
report.
Its just a cryin' shame" Edna
complained. why, that man
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