Eureka Reporter | 1907-05-24 | Page 5 | He Was Thicker Skimmed

he was thicker skimmed walter howard the london drama aist was leaving the stage door of a theater one evening when an anemic looking youth stepped up and said are you mr howarda the author replied in the affirmative whereupon the young fellow said he wanted to go on the stage noticing his evident unfitness for suph such a life howard ad him to stick to his present oc cupa cu tiou whatever it was I 1 am as distant pawnbroker across the way said the ambitious young man and what do your people think of your going oh the staged asked howard oh they are right against it was the jaunty reply but I 1 t mind the disgrace myself