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Show " TAD'S TIP-BITS Action, My Boy, Action! Abe Lincoln didn't have a press agent boosting his work, did he? Napoleon was a poor, sickly looking kid in school, but studied and fought his way to an emperor's chair. Michael Angelo played the one-arm lunch houses in Italv as a kid, but hard work made a name tor him in sculpture and painting that ' will never die. He had no press agent. Terry McGovern 's first fight was in a lumber vard, but he was such a good and willing lad that thev couldn't stop him. He "made the papers write about him. Kid Lavigne fought his own wav to a great name. Johnny Kilbane was knocked to" beat, the band here in Xew York, but now the snort writers are at his feet. They admit, that he's the golden-haired baby. Then HV do these managers write to newspapers and "ask for a writeup concerning the coming champion? Whv doesn't the (.'. C. step out and make his own name. A bale of stories wouldn 't make him a. greater fighter. He has to do that himself. Billy Miske and Jack Dillon came here unheralded, yet thev draw thousands of dollars everv time thev fight anvone, because cvervdne knows that thev can fight. They MADE their reps in small bouts. (let those coming vhamps out and LET THEM WORK. Boosting a cabbage won't make it an artichoke. By JUNIE M'CEEB. new vork sity. Febuwary 1917. dear Xed me an' the ol' woman is iu woolwirth's piekin' out our spring underware. weer not esgsaekly buy in' it ned. weer jist civ in ' it the ' fond "gianse ' ' an' iincin' it, when we heer a cupla "female esTL's talkin' about the "hisrh cost uv livinV' so when me an' jen gits back to"the staybel i sez. "that high cost uv tivin ' thing is got everyone wingin' nowaday..'' an' jen gimme the "banjo eve an' sez 'lit yure pipe, hop .loo t agree with vs." "Whv," she sez. "ware do ya git that, "high cost uv livin ' ''talk?' we bin in new vork goin ' on 3 years an' we aint wirked one ful weak in awl that time, an' if they w uz a 'high cost uv livm',' how did we live?" "Whv" i sez rockm' back an fourth on my heais, "on my wits." so jen sez. quiet'like. Hap. if shanipain witz 3 cents a barrel, yure wit eudn 't by a thimble ful uv rain water,-" when he slams ned. she slam hard. el i says to myself "i!e slip her a little info she ain't necks to'-' so i sez ".Ion. do you no. that the price uv meet an" ecss an' milk is gone rp?" do you no the price uv leather is gone up, aw!s0 the price uv dves"? "wot do i care for dyes'' sez jen "i quit shootin ' 'craps a long time ago,'' so I pays no attenhun to her joke but i keep on spoulin' "the price uv "foodstuffs an' life's nessessities is awl gone up an' that's wot makes "the bidi cost uv Hvin ' " Wei ned she looks at me lor a ful minit an' then she sez iiina slow dramatic wav "Hap the -high cost uv livin ' ' is livin' with you.'-' i aint'got the point ned ' but ue bet it s a bird when i make it. vure pal. llAPFYXEELY, a piffawmer. A Female H. B. E. Dear Tad- Please enter this lady H. B. E.: She is verv chummy with a grocer and his wife who live in the ame house she does, but .-he never purchases anything in their store. Then one dav a competitive grocery, just across tiie street, advertised a .-aie in coi'iVe and thi. particular ladv. while her two friends were looking Cn. crow. the street ami linvt some of said coffee. Then calmly rcerossiug the street .-he walks up to her friend and promptly asks him if he will please grind the coffee for her. Yours. TOXTO. |