Show 0 about abola after dinner speeches aly HOUSTON TEXAS lately for my sins ive had to listen to a jag of after dinner oratory including plenty of mine I 1 hope people like to hear me I 1 do F feature writers say professional after dinner speakers are dying out that may be true in new york where folks are anxious to get the dinner over with so they may hurry to the night spots and do some sincere and earnest drinking in an effort to forget what the stock block market did to them yesterday and what its going to do to them tomorrow irvin g S cobb but out in the hinterlands ter lands the new crop of native orators is a bountiful one and the typical silver tongues of the great open spaces es im speaking of their neighborhoods although I 1 might include their mouths are still convinced that the sweetest music on earth is the sound of ones own voice uplifted in eloquence an english preacher had the best formula stand up to be seen speak up to be heard to be appreciated if hed left out all but thelast part atwould have been a perfect recipe treasures tomorrows tomorrow treasures WANT ifor ANT to acquire untold wealth tor your latter years or anyhow for your grateful heirs then teen collect things collect cheap things which are both common and commonplace then sit down and wait for these objects to become obsolete and therefore priceless yesterdays necessity is junk but will be tomorrows treasured antique assume saved up old circus bills or mississippi river steamboat menus or buggy whips or those hand painted slop jars formerly found in all truly refined homes henry ford or some museum would take a lot at any price im putting aside literary works of a purely imaginative conception 1 I have one perfect specimen of idyllic creation a timetable time table of the old florida east coast railroad also a complete working synopsis of the townsend plan just sheer fantasy but the most fanciful romances are the platform pledges adopted at national conventions of the two great parties during the last twenty years theres real fiction for you 0 0 germanys germanas Germ anys colonies EVERY VERY nation is united in the magnanimous attitude that to germany should be restored the colonies taken from her by the winning side in the worlds war except the nations that acquired the said colonies in the split up the main hitch its more than a hitch its a hard knot tied originally with hate and sealed now with greed in other words sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander unless it happens to be our gander which naturally alters the case nor seemingly has it occurred to any government that the original owners of germanys germanas Germ anys former territorial possessions might like to have a say about whom going to belong to in future but then if ever we started considering the wishes of despoiled native tribes over the wort world d where would the white while mans noble civilization be 0 0 0 cosmopolites Cosmo THE T HE last time before this that captain mike hogg I 1 and major raymond dickson reined returned to their ranch at cast blanca mex they were just back from new york that night at the bunkhouse the hands mostly texas lads ered to hear the bosses tell about the wonder s tf I 1 the great city one or two of them em had visited new york so these cosmopolitans proceeded to exhibit their familiarity with its sights major said one 1 I reckon old grants grant s tombs still doin business at the same stand eh and I 1 bet the aquarium is right where she was when I 1 was there said another and all them tall buildings buil dins there was present one lanky youth who had never been fifty miles away from where he was born in a bend of the rio grande probably never had seen a town of more than a thousand inhabitants but with all these seasoned travelers showing off he mean to be left out he waited for an opening caan mike he said tell me is that there same feller still the hotel in N tew new york IRVIN S COBB service |