Show x is How to o Dodge the 3 Sheriff s By RING LARDNER s I 00 To the Editor A great many of my creditors and their pals has bas probably been wondering wonderIng wonder wonder- Ing that how come that we are loose as a years ago I was almost shakIng hands with the referee In banI and where as I am now on my ft again and got pretty near enough money to pay my last November November Novem- Novem ber bill Well friends when I 1 find out a good thing I bm am not the kInd ot of abird n. n bird that will keep It to but butI I will pass It along and tell my pals about it so as they can take advantages advantages and pull out of the hole the same like Ilke I dId Well about n a year ago I was talk talk- In fug with my wife and myself 1 night and she says how Is it that I and andou you ou are making about berries per wk more or LESS and we owe everybody everybody every every- body In Illinois except the and andon andon on the other band heres here's the Quayles livIng next doors to us and him only getting 40 thousand per annum and yet they seem to enjoy a whole lot more than we and dont don't owe nothIng So I I saId what ot of it Well she says I been reading the magazines a whole lot lately and andI I seen nD an nd ad In 1 sIgned by the Rainy Day Corporation and Its It's supposed to tell the husband and their wife how to get on their ft and the course only costs so why not lets let's subscrIbe for tor It and you dont don't have to pay In advance but first you get the course and read It and then you can pretend like you dont don't care nothIng about it and send It back Dack to them and they refund you the 3 spot So I saId all rIght like I usually do dowhen when she speaks to me at all and she sent for tor the course and It come In a form torm of 5 books which I didn't have time to read and she read them and sent It back to them with the words I that It was not nol no good goo but at that It was good enough to get us out of our I troubles and look at us now Well the dear Idear was this In a few tew words In the first place most ot of our I debts was owed In drIblets like ten dollars and the book says I If you owe ten dollars apiece to a w whole lot of f p people ople in the h same town I why the Idea Is to qUietly move out ot of that town as tar far as you can and move to some other town and the merchants and etc ete back In the old oldtown oldtown town wont won't sew you because it would cost more than the debts Is worth So one night we quietly moved out ot of the old town and moved to Great Neck and we haven't heard nothing since from people we owe money toWell to toWell Well the next lesson In the course was to get yourself a job that paid more money so 1 day I went down to N. N Y City and went In a mans man's office that I had bad heard about him and I Isaid Isaid said I wasn't getting enough money In old ChI so he said what dId I want and I said I 1 wanted a raise and he gave it to me So as I say here we are living In Great Neck and getting more salary than out In old Chi CM and all our debts repudiated and they cant can't sew us on acct of how much It costs on acct of the and here we are In the lapse of luxury In Longs Long's Island and alL as we halt half to do Is to keep out ot of old Chi or go their incognito and on acct ot of the wife wIte seeIng the Rainy Day Corporation ad In thIs here magazine which the pure reading read read- Ing matter was so bad that she felt feIt lIke she had to read the ads Now gents I dont don't want you to take my testimony without no supports so I I will tell you about a ot of frIends of mine along the same lines Unes that was In as pretty a pickle vickIe like we and seen the same ad and got the same results as us or better as follows tot fol- lows beginning with n. n letter I got from a frIend ot of mine name Chas I Clarke as follows Dear Old Pal You know how Mil MII dred and I used tb along struggle i I was earning 1000 per week weed as as clerk In the Bon Ton Market whIch my uncle owned it and I was the only heir Well one day Mildred read me methe methe the Rainy Day Corporation ad in one ot of the magazInes about how to pull yourself out of the rut so she wrote them and they wrote back advising me to quit being the clerk clork and become the prop so one day I took a bIg cleaver and used It on my uncle and by the time Ume I got through there wasn't enough left of hIm to be prop of a soda fountain In Cuba so now J I Jand and Mildred Is running the market and last year we away The other letter Is from a carpenter frIend of mine that lives JIves at Fifth A Avenue venue and 70 st at and In 2 yrs he be was only able to save so 1 day him and his wife happened to see each other and begIn talking and she seen thIs ad rind and wrote to the Rainy Day Corporation and they wrote back and told him to raze he ll and get more money so he wrote to the union and told them he wouldn't carp no nomore nomore more unless they give him mor more money so they give him a raze Ze now he Is making more than a st. st c ca' ca r and not 4 as eo good gooda a time That Is the way It come oft off boys and girls and ond It if you are satisfied d to togo togo go along about financial mattern matters mat mat- tern why well vell and good but It If my little talk has showed you the way out why 1 am satisfied wIthout no further further fur fur- ther numerations only the knowledge that I helped drag you out 01 the Meyer eEl by th tb I t. t teal bOo |