Show KM S 1 how to dodge the i sheriff f by RING LARDNER K to the adilor A great many of my creditors and their pils has probably pro bibly been wonder ing ali t how come that we are loose as a couple years ago I 1 was almost shaking hinds with the referee in bankruptcy and where as I 1 am now on my ft ngien and got pretty near money to pay my last novem her bill ell friends ft hen I 1 find out a good hang I 1 am not the kind of a bird that will keep it to thero self but I 1 will piss it along and tell my pals about it so as they can take adv n and pull out of the hole the sunie e I 1 did about a year ago 1 was ing with wife and 1 night and she sas how Is it eliat 1 and lou are making about ax berries per k more or I 1 I 1 ab aid we owe every body in illinois except the goat and on the other hind haies the yu ivies hi ing next doors to us and him getting 40 cpr annum and yet aliey seem to enjoy a whole lot more thin e and don t owe so I 1 said what ot it ell she I 1 been rending the a whole lot I 1 seen an ad in 1 signed liy the halny day anil its supposed to tell the hustind and their wife how to get on their ft and alie course only costs W 0 o why not lets for it and vou don t have to pay in adv ince but firest you att the course and reid it and then you can pretend e iou don t tire about it and send it back to them and they refund you the 3 spot so I 1 said all right e 1 usually do when she speaks to me at nil and she sent for alie course and it come in a form of 5 bool s which I 1 dian didn t have time to read and slie read them and sent it back to them with the word that it was not no good but at that it way good enough to get us out of our troubles and look at us now vell the idair was tills in a few words in the cist place most of our debts was owed in driblets drib lets like ten and the book if you owe ten dollars apiece to a whole lot of people in alie same town why the idea Is to quietly move out of that town as far as you can and ioe to some other town and the merchants and etc bick in the old town wont sew you because it would cit more the debts Is worth sao one night we quietly moved out of the old town and moved to great neck and we haven t heard nothing anre from people we owe money to uell the next lesson in the course was to get yourself a job that paid more money so 1 day I 1 went down to N Y city and went in a mans office that I 1 had heard about him and 1 said I 1 getting enough bonev in old hi so he said what did I 1 want and I 1 said I 1 wanted a alse and I 1 he gave it to roe so as I 1 sav here we are living in greit icca and getting more salary than out in old and all our debts repudiated and they cm t sew us on acca acct of how much it costs on acca acct of the dl stants and here we are in the lapse of luxury in 1 angs island and all as we half to do Is to keep out of old achl or go their incognito and on acca acct of the wife seeing the rainy day corporation ad in this here magazine which the pire read ing matter was so bad tint she felt HI c she had to reid the ads w gents I 1 don t want you to tak my testimony without no supports so I 1 will talf you about a couple of friends of mine along the birne lines that was in as pretty a pickle like we and seen the same ad and got the same results as us or better ns fol lows beginning with a letter 1 got from a friend of mine name chas barke as follow si dear old ill you know how mil dred and I 1 used to struggle along while I 1 was earning 1000 per as clerk in the don ton market which my uncle owned it and I 1 was the only heir ell one day mildred rend me the rainy day corporation ad in one of the about how to pull yourself out of he rut so she wrote them and they wrote bick advising me to quit being lie clerk and become the prop so one daiy diy I 1 took a big and used it on mv uncle and by alie time I 1 got through there enough left of bilm to be prop of a soda fountain in cuba so now I 1 and mildred Is running the market and last year we laca away the other letter Is from a carpenter friend of mine that elvei at I 1 fifth avenue and 70 st and in 2 irs he was able to sive so 1 day bilm and his happened to see each and begin talking and she seen tills nd and wrote to the kalny day am iliev ante hack and told bilm to raye he II 11 and get inor money so he wrote to the union and told them he t cirp no more unless chev give him more monay fco the give him a raze and now he Is making more than n et car conductor and not haveling as good a time that Is the way it come off boys and perls and if iou are to go along about financial mit tars eliy avell and good but if my little has showed you the way out eliy I 1 am satisfied without no fur ther only the knowledge that I 1 helped drag you out ot the beyer by lh all at |