The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-08-11


place. I'm IN Heaven right now.
Luella: But the-the party?
Jumbo: Oh, yes, the party. for
got about the party. Love me.
honey? 80
Luella: Uh-huh.
Jumbo: Just one more, then.
Just one.
Luella: Mmph-mmphl GWeedy
III piggie can't have emmy more.
Jumbo: Aw. pwease Jes' one.
Luella "a woman weakening):
We-ee-H -.
Z (More monkey business)
jumbo softly: Who's my baby?
Luefia: It better be me. Or mama
spank.
Jumbo: Darlingest.
Lucia: Honeybunch.
Jumbo: Sugarplun.
Luella: Lambikins.
(And so on ad nauseam)
And this was The low estate to
which Jumbo Cutler, ever after
wards to be known as Jumbo the
Weight Maker, had fallen. For,
despite his pitiful digreSsions at
the bar of one. Monyhan: despite
the fact that, shortly before the
Weighing-in, he had eaten a bull
lock twhole) with side dishes;
and despite the fact that Tacks
Adams had base1y deserted him
at the sWeat-box with the job half
finished, Jumbo had passed the
acid test of the drugstore scales
cum laude. BY what miracle this
had come to pass, Jumbo himself
was unprepared to say. But come
to pass it had, and he was wholly
satisfied. 1t was not for such as
he, he reasoned, to probe the
mysteries of the gods. And the
gods had given him a fifteen pound
weight reduction. according to the
drugstore scales, and Lucia West.
Wherefore Jumbo had bestowed
fond, if dazed, look upon the drug
store scales and a fondef one upon
Miss Luella West. How it had ever
come about, he didn't know. But
he supposed that, If truth were
told, the Cutters were Just born
to win, that was all.
My Hero
THINKING back now upon his
y triumph in the pharmacy, Jun-
DO was minded to indulge in little
discreet Boosting.
'I'll bet, sweetheart" he said,
starting the car, that you never
thought I'd get that poundage off"
Luella's eyes sfone brightly
through the gloom.
Why. darling, she said softly,
Il never doubted it for a mo-
ment.r
Jumbo laughed, conqueror's
laugh!' sna
aThat's the spirit" he said. ATS
the old fight. Never doubt me.
When set out to do a thing | do
1t un brown"
yes. DEAR" said Luella duti-
fully. v
For instance" Jumbo con-
tinued. syon stipulated that I take
off ten pounds. Well. just to show
you, ] chucked off fifteen, didn't
To-
Eyes, dear, said luella.
why, do you know" went on
Jumbo, shat ! spent halfso yes
terday afternoon Sitting ina sW--
era baking, box just to playFit
safe? a pal of mine-you'll meet
him tonight-was running the box.
And what does the ape face do but
run off right in the middle Of
everything and leave me cooking
there. But for one of the clubs
bell-hops who heard me hollering.
I'd have suffocated."
@You poor darling" said Luella
TREMENDOUSLY. as becomes BRIDE
to-be. Xxi.
''Point I'm trying to make is"
said Jumbo, I'D go through fire
for YOU" He paused, remember
ing. "I've already done it. :
Dearest" breathed Lucia In q
my hero voice.
OF course" Jumbo regained his
spirit of devil-may-care, "a little
thing like Topping of fifteen
pounds Of weight was Just
breeze. ! knew It would be from
the fest. I-er--I rather dalIied
with the assignment just to make
it look hard. /" He suddenly became
a one-arm driver. But played
It right down the alley at the finish,
didn't n" 80 .ss1 Il
Sweetheart sighed Luella.
you're wonderful. |.
But. under cover of the dark
ness, she smiled. There was not
the slightest reason, she perceived,
for enlightening her prospective
liege lord of the fact that she had
visited the drugstore two hours
before the appointed time for the
weighing-in Neither was there oc-
casion to explain that she had
waved a five-dollar bill before the
eyes of a commercially minded
drug clerk. The combination of the
five-dollar bill and Luella's force
full personality had done the trick.
With characteristic clerkish un-
scrupulouSness, the clerk had tam
pered with the mechanism of.the
scales and achieved condition
whereby bull walrus. leaping
from the continuance. would have
felt justified in attempting to ffrii-
tate a springbok. As maker Of
scales to weigh light. this clerk had
surpassed her widest expectations.
It was shame that such ability
and resourcefulness should 20
forever unpublicized. But far more