Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-02-25 | Page 14 | The Merry Side of Life

I The Merry Side of Life I I I By Joseph Wallace I v 1 l d HY JY In- Inso so pens pensive pense e toda today I asked w W Trixie at the restaurant notIcing noticing noticing no no- a faraway look In her wonderful e eye eye- e Oh not much she sime replied while a n amale amale male maJe diner at tIme the first table loudly demanded demanded de de- de- de bread and butter with one boiled boiJe l legg egg Keep this to yourself There arc are no rio medals on me mc I play Ilay la pong ping pong with this cash register for tor o hours a ada aday aday da day wear ear a smile for everyone everone listen to all the thc earfuls of oC grouchy grouch customers and alon along comes a girl old enough h to know knots better and she sue gives the tIme Boss Bossa a hot wire about IU my language T a 1 I she I l at the second table reading the I f I bill of ot fare like c a a. lime She's what hat you OU call cun a hl highbrow whatever er that means 1 4 I t I Touching the Hero Here and nel TI here liere ere 1 5 According to what she sho told me I j sphere on n which we wo mortals exist in m a a. state of ot healthy health flux lux Is only a a. mere rc I 1 stopping place on our Journey through I ether And nd ni when nhien we reach that other I land w will be dissolved In an au atmosphere atmosphere atmos phere of spiritual beauty an and l emerge t radiant as the golden dawn Now I when situ sho handed me that I Just waved I I her off and said Tell It to the I King Ing I of oC Denmark And then she had the nerve I nerve o to tell teU the time Boss that h he hall had an 1 Impertinent Cashier who mur murdered trel trela a I beautiful tongue which had ived time I tho onslaughts of ot pedants for Cor ages I Isn't that the tIme limit The rho Boss didn't I know what she was talking talking- about but butIn In order to be on the safe safo side he hauled me over O the time coals But Ill I'll get set over it ft Poor Ioor girl gin I She has m my sym m path pathy And nd Then There Theres Another l. Sort She reminds me of a girl we toc have haye up In our house She spends her spare pare time lime browsing browsing- on books booles and according i to her it Isn't so long longn n ago o that we were waltzing up tip In the trees trees like the thc monks One night she caught mo ma dead ead to rights in a new ne' silk 1 kimono what shat was I given to me mc b by a n. Certain Party who smuggled I smuggled It In fn I 1 was standing Before I Ithe the mirror fussing fusing up up UI m my crowning I glory because some soma one was calling that I that night when the thc door opened and andIn In walked Miss Encyclopedia She took I Ione one peek peck at m my face and Grecian knot and then started in to read for Cor mo me a along along long IonS stor story on vanity She said It would I be for 01 better If time the girlies of or toddy today I paid more attention to tho inside of ot j their thought factories than the outside out out- I side I took it all in and never na came back She's got goot the history of cf I the tIme sun moon and stars start and amid now whenever when when- when i I ever er I see sec her I alwa always s 's take a a walk alk 1 I UI- UI ii our I-our VI orKin Inu r Why she had tim the nerve to ask me ale I one ono night If Billy Bill had an intellectual mentality but I came came caine right back and told her be he worked for a living JIving Now o J dont don't think for tor ono one moment that Im I'm j Jealous but Ive I've been given heJl to understand understand under under- stand that aha sho Is making a strong play for tor him D Dont say that I interrupted while a a. bold diner asked tho the Boss if IC potatoes potatoes' ever came came In iii pairs Perhaps sue sho Is looking lookIng- out for tor your our welfare Wrapped rapped up as she is In the pursuit of or knowledge knowl edge edgo no doubt ere this pho has refused man many proposals of ot marriage and Intends to spend her days ays in single blessed blessed- I ness less Maybe Ia bc replied TrixIe bowing sweetly to a pretty girl gin irl who entered the restaurant staggering under a gorgeous gor sor- 1 spring bonnet but from what hat 1 I understand shed she'd marr marry a n pirate If It ho asked her t