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Show News Sleuth Is Responsible for Change in Adage City Recorder and Mayor's Secretary Have an Experience. EVERY once in a couple of whiles one hears as a quotation the remark, "Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are." This adasre of doubtful parentage ' and unesthetic savor was reduced to a working formula tha other day by a newspaper man. Rendered thus practical of application. It runs: "Tell me whnt you ate at lunch or dinner and I will know how to approach you or, perhaps, whether or not to approach you at all." The evolution of the rule came of the reporter's being driven by means of verbal ver-bal bombs from the office of the city recorder re-corder the other afternoon. The bombs of the on -syllable, contact variety, like "Get" and "out" were fltppfd by the bomb throwers by means of the tongue, from behind the teeth, the while their 'hands continued busily at work wrap- 1 ping registration cards in packages to be delivered to registrars througnout the ! city. The explosives scored in the ears of him at whom they were linguistically hurled and affected his feet, wita the re- jsult that he found himself moving hence. The bomb throwers, both of wnom are I reputed to be as suave and engaging of manner under all circumstances as any persons ever in the city service, were City Recorder Gordon Snow and R- X. Young, secretary to Mayor W. Mont Ferry. At lunch time they found themselves them-selves too busy with preparation for the military registration to permit of their going out for something to eat. They ordered or-dered sandwiches from a quick-lunch counter hamburger sandwiches. Mr. Young recoiled when he unwrapped un-wrapped one of the sandwiches, then re-marked, re-marked, with grim expression of coun- tenance, "We- will have to eat them, for v ( we've no time to bother about getting others." Tne city' recorder made biting retort, sinking his teeth into one of the sandwiches. sand-wiches. The meat was raw. They were eating it when the reporter chanced to enter the office the' first time. They gave him the excuse for forming his rule when he mischanced to enter again two hours later. |