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Show Spare Soma Sympathy for Fccr Old Daddy Rutger Jewett. the New Tork pub-i pub-i li!ier, said at a dinner of the Dutch Treat ciub. of which he is secretary: "There ought to be an annual Father's Fa-ther's day. and the movies ought to give us a couple of hundred father-h've father-h've films, the same as they gave us ali those mother-love Elms three or four years ago. Though a bachelor, I know whereof I speak. "Paterfamilias: Poor paterfamilias! "One afternoon I was sitting in a hot otliee talking to a fat, pale perspiring per-spiring publisher of middle age when a sunburnt young fellow in pinkish oxford bags- ;lud a blue jacket with brass buttons hustled In. He was smoking a cigarette in a 10-inch amber am-ber tube. " 'Well, dad.' he said cheerily. Tin just up from the shore, and I thought I'd run in and say hello.' "The fat, pale man mopped his wet forehead. " 'Sorry, boy,' he said, 'but your sister sis-ter walked off with all my cash half an hour ago. On her way down to the shore she just ran in to pay good-by.' good-by.' " |