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Show RESOLUTIONS? DO YOU MAKE 'EM TO BREAK? 4- s. pil The 6ccne was a cigar etore, the atmosphere at-mosphere pcrmenated with the usual haze of smoke and the usual amount of hot air, floating around. Resolutions Resolu-tions was the subject under discussion discus-sion Tho thin-lipped fellow, with his eyes set rather close together, whined: 'Take it from me. rellowa. I'm off this being an easy mark this year for the flappers No more movies for mine. I stop at my girl's house on the way down town and they tell me she's gone to take care of her sister's baby. And I drift Into the movl by my lonesome. lone-some. I never knew before how old her sister's baby waa until 1 aee them holdin' hands. Believe me, I'm through! "Out to cut out so many glad rags," piped up the nlftily dressed youth, selecting se-lecting an expenHivo clgaret from a more expensive clgaret case. I'm In tho red U the bank now." And then to the newcomer; decked out In the very late.it style, who blew In to buy a clsar, ' Say Eddlo. w hat did they act you back for that outfit?" "Believe me,' broke in tho book keeper. Its tho garage for that bus of mine with the padlock on the outside out-side and the key lost this year. He looked around and continued. "Did you fellow h ever stop to figure out the upkeep of a gas wagon?" A girl stopped outside and peered through the glaa panels of the doorway, door-way, smiled, and with a de-lighted grin, the thln-llppcd fellow hurried out. A few moments later he waa followed fol-lowed by the rest of the crowd, pleasure pleas-ure bound. The cigar clerk grinned and said: It's the same old dope about resolutions res-olutions each year. Sure they quit smoking, quit dances, tho gas-wagon and the movies for about one trip and then they forget about It. If half the people that make resolutions kept them, the world would go out of business." busi-ness." 00 |