The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-24
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.naMeYsI IL News

GENERAL Philbrick, who man.
~ aged to look Is though hehad
S Se wore aElitg 9haPs fy silit ~ @aa
waiting with Jeff and Sara for the
fireworks to bsgipl rISiV 1871
"And hope" be, said to .ASey
after greeting himefasitefy, Fthat
you'll find time to say few words
to our radio auditRce before the
week is out. We want you. / know
you'll be glad to hear the prelim-
mary reports on our program have
been most favorable, and the eve
ming papers gave us fine publicity
Splendid. Now, you have large
following, and people are inter
ested in you and your work, and
Mr.. Trip wants to"
"That's real nice of you an Mr..
Tripp," Asey said. "You-er-
think this is going to help your
busineSs?"
mo question about it, no ques-
,tion about it at all. The American
people have unfortunately out
grown the habit of-perhapS
should say, grown out of the habit
s-of using fireworks of the orna-
mental type at their"
dali intssBassa nrs z m mi9aTe fa do
Think they,Es, pretty, and so color
1ui-buta so dangerous, don't you
think? Iiqeff9niber torpedoes-of
course you can hardly see the scar
son my finger now, but that was a
long time ago. Then Cousin
Dorothy'S boy - when he was
younger, of course He's an engi-
neer now, and really doing quite
well in spite of the depression-so
hard for young people, don't you
think? Like Jane, and-well, Ger
aid Mould have firecrackers - of
course we tried to dissuade him,
but he was very m-Willed boy,
always. always said, Cousin Dor
othy's family are so strong-willed
about everything, l don't mind
their sleeping outdoors in bags but
I do feel it's an imposition for their
guests - of course Gerald'S eye
sight finally did come back"
My dear woman the General
said, modern scientific methods
in the manufacture Of"
ASey Slipped away to Sara's side.
IL Lets beat it." he said, ito the
edge of this mob. I'd like to hear
that conv'Sation, but I'm tired.
when Eloise gets goin', she goes,
don't. she? Seems like she hung
s-onto your words for the one pur-
pose of b'ginnin' to talk just split
Second before she thinks you're
fswindin' up. Lane has had an awful
thine with her. He says she's coy"
Al Aunt Sara grinned. odd. but
SJeff and Zeb have noticed that coy
mess, too. She set her cap for
, Weston, did he tell you? For
s@hile last winter, the town was
pretty much resigned to losing its
Bachelor selectman. Oh, dear. there
goes the noise! It's beautiful to
swatch, but.I do hate to hsten!"
81 Near the parked cars on the side
of the field, they waited and
sWatched the Generals display.
What about fire hazard?" Asey
asked.
"Oh. everything's been chemi-
eally treated within a radius of ten
miles, or something" Sara told him
during lull. "By the way, you
should have heard our evening
broadcast. We were quite good.
Upjohn'S band outdid themselves.
and your friend the soprano was
fine. / think she cares more for
Chloe than she does for Billings
gate Beautiful And we had an
1mpromptu amateur contest. At
least they claimed it was i'm
promptu, but am sure it was pre-
arranged. And there was a girl,
reporter, who did limitations. She
was simply marvellous. Awfully
interesting-looking girl. Red hair
and freckly. She came over later
and we met her. liked her lot.
You will, too. Ell"
9 FSensitive Mayo Mind
zoo ON" Asey said. Get to the
, m point OaTi, sarssAnd what hap
"How did you know it happened
next? What is this, thought trans
ference?"
'It's the sensitive Mayo mind"
Asey said. "JuSt a vast receivin'
set-Sara, I know by the way
you're going at this that you done
somethin' you shouldn't. What's
4ba cforv9 Wbaf lid votr cav that