Show The Old Soak I Talks of History The Old Soak b by Don Marquis I will stir your vur ur memory and arouse many laughs laug This book is t the of I what at me and old King Booze Booe done clone before be be be- fore he wt went nt into the grave sav says The Old Soak in the introductory chapter It is a record of the pa Pl past t for lie ht has ha no hope that good old c days das s swill I will wilt return nor has he any faith In In I home brew Hope he ne thinks is n l fine thing but It dont don't gurgle none none a I when yeu pour it out of or a bottle Id rather have haie despair despair combined with a case se of bourbon liquor than all nil the thc hope In the world by bv itself HOD Hope Is s what these here fellows fellow j has that is to make th their ir own with go trot got a teakettle and a piece of hose hosp That's Thal's awful stuff It may b be all right to take tale the grease s spots s out t of the r rug with t b bI but I ts g st h i it aint t T for r t the hun n stomach 10 to drink made Home booze boo Is either a farce with no serious kick to it or else a tra with an unhappy ending end end- ing ing And so this diary that the Ufe fu future fu- fu ture generations may know just what ar arf an old fashioned barroom was was Don Marquis ia tJ the conductor o of f h s Sun Pun oD Dial on the e New Neis' te York tos Sun SOn n I is thc a a I columnist se work work- is very differ different dIffer eat ent from that hat of or F. F P P. A A. A and th the late lato B. B BUT L T T. The creator of Archie I Hermoine and the Old Soak draws portraits that have a truth beYond ond the sparkle of the jest His followers I kno know that the kernel of a a. quip front froIn I Don Marquis is a true observation or ora ora I Ia I a fine decision Doubleday Doubleday Page I II I Co Garden City N N. Y I |