Show 4 to CiL about Personal Indorsements TEXAS 1 I II HOUSTON I 1 used to be a pretty fair hand at indorsing things But Bui ButI I realize now what a piker I was I indorsed only one thing at a time For the present champions I lot lot- offer of of- fer for a suggestion When that distinguished distinguished distin- distin world traveler traveler traveler trav trav- eler Bringing Testimonials Tes i B Back a e c k Alive and that eminent movie star who lives in Hollywood Hollywood Holly HoUy- wood right next to Live Reading Matter Matter blotter Mat blot j ter and ond is authoress of ot Miss Recommends get r through indorsing practically everything everything every every- thing else let them irvin S S. S Cobb then club in and attain attain attain at at- tain the very highest peak of ot In- In by jointly indorsing the famous society queen who has indorsed more products than they even or anybody Maybe Its It's a sign of the times that today the most fascinating literature literature literature lit lit- and the most familiar names are found in the advertising sections of a magazine rather than thanin thanin thanin in the table of contents Noted Ancestors O r N ON N THE little Hogg Hogg-Dickson ranch at Casa Blanca Mexico Mexico- Mexico Mexico- only acres acres I I met the caporal caporal caporal capo- capo ral or head man of a cow herd and andone andone andone one famous as a shot rifle-shot an upstanding ing eyed clear Mexican but I fancied fancied fancied fan fan- with some faint indefinable suggestion suggestion suggestion sug sug- of ot the Saxon Anglo-Saxon in his facial contours However his name as I caught it was pronounced Ernesto Ernesto Ernesto Er nesto Boo Boo na na which to my alien cars ears sounded enough for all aU purposes He knew no English yet when I mentioned Kentucky Kentucky-a a thing Ive I've been known to do before before he he poured out a rippling flood of Span Span- ish Louis the Texas-born Texas manager translated d Ernesto says he has heard of a far-away far place called Kentucky According According According Ac Ac- cording to a legend in his fam family his great great-gre great grandfather t once lived there was there was muy muy vivo and was the nephew of oran an even greater Gringo warrior who drove the savages before him like tumbleweeds tumbleweeds tumbleweeds tumble- tumble weeds before a wind So I saw a light and I inquired how Ernesto spelled his last name nome he he spelled it the orthodox way So as members of the same stock a pioneer ancestress of mine having married a kinsman of the great pathfinder I held a reunion with this mighty huntsman who is proud that he too collaterally is descended from Daniel Boone Dachshunds T I LIKE dachshunds They've more A sense of humor than anything I ever saw that came out of Prussia I always figured the breed was produced produced pro pro- by crossing a rat terrier on ona ona ona a German compound verb and I still believe you could combine usefulness usefulness usefulness use use- with their natural comedy by training them to retrieve collar buttons from under low bureaus I indorse the phrase of the ma mathematical mathematical math math- th- th sharp who said a dachshund dachshund dachshund dachs dachs- hund was half hal a dog high and a dog and a half long but I claim Captain Captain Cap Cap- tain tamp Mike Hoggs Hogg's chauffeur Mose coined the best est description yet et When Mrs Hogg brought home the first one Mose Iose ever beheld his eyes bulged out like twin push buttons on ona ona a o mahogany door Lawsy Miss l Alice he exclaimed exclaimed ex ex- claimed is this here tiling thing Its a dog said Mose i if if you hadn't told me Id I'd a said it was wasa a snake on roller skates Hunting In Texas IT T WAS raining so hard even the seagulls were trying to get in m the clubhouse So the ducks went away somewhere out of the weather So the th-e hunters who were less intelligent intelligent intelligent intelli intelli- gent than the ducks came back from rom the blinds dripping like so many nany leaky lenky hot water bottles After being bailed out we sat down lown to vittles vittles nothing nothing unusual just the customary club dinner All we ve found on the menu was beef hash lash duck stew liver and onions country smoked sausage and ond homemade home- home made nade headcheese also hot biscuits corn orn pones and rice cakes likewise turnip greens rice sweet potatoes squash quash and eye hominy I moreover six kinds of ot pickles preserves Jellies and Jams besides stewed pears apple pie pic pecans and various fruits Then Mrs Irs Jacob Smothers the club hostess hostess host- host ess iss came in to say that if it anybody in n the future craved anything al shed she'd try to fix it up and up-and and wondered wondered won- won dered why such of her gorged guests os as s weren't too far gone uttered feeble fee fee- ble le laughter Being now convalescent cent I am amble amable amable able ble to report that Southern Texas is 3 one part of the Union where catig eating enting eat cat ing ig is still being carried on as a regular habit IRVIN S. 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