| Show am 4 M how to to dodge the sheriff t by RING 0 LARDNER to the editor A great many of my creditors and their pals has bus probably been wondering that how bow come that we are loose as a couple years ago I 1 was almost shaking hands with the referee in bankruptcy and where as I 1 am now on my ft again and got pretty near enough money to pay my last november bill well friends friend 9 when I 1 find out it a good thing I 1 am not the kind of a bird that will keep it to them self but I 1 will pass it alon along and tell my pals about nebout it so as the aliey can take advantages and pull out of the hole tile the same like I 1 did well about a year ago I 1 was talking m with tit my wife and myse myself if 1 night and she says how Is it that I 1 and you are making about berries per wk more or LESS and we owe everybody in illinois except the goal and on the other hand heres the quayles living next doors to us find and him only getting 40 thousand per annum annual and yet they seem to enjoy fg a bhole lot more that than e and dont we nothing so I 1 said elhat w hat of it well she says 1 I been rending reading the he magazines a whole lot lately and I 1 seen an ad in 1 signed by the rainy lay day corporation and its supposed to ell the husband and their wife how ci 0 get on their ft and the course only costs so wily why not ets su ascribe for it and you dont lave to pay in advance but first you et the course and re read ad it and then ou on can pretend like you dont care gothing about it ft and send it back to hem and they refund you the 3 spot so I 1 said all right like I 1 usually do ahen site she speaks to me at all and she ent for the course and it ft come in a orm of 5 books which I 1 have ime to read and she read them and ent it bade back to them with the words flat it was not no good but at that it as good enough to get us out of bf our roubles coubles and took look at us now well the idear was this in a few in the first place most of our abts was owed in driblets drib lets like ten ollars and the book says it if you owe ten dollars apiece to a whole hole lot of people in the same town hy tile the idea Is to quietly move out I 1 that town as far as you can and love to some other town and the ler ier chants and etc back to in the old awn jw wont sew you because it would ost more than the alie debts Is worth 0 one night we quietly moved out of lie ie old town and moved to great eck and we ne heard nothing ince nee from people we owe money to well the next nest lesson in the course as to get yourself a job that paid tore lore money so 1 day I 1 went down to Y city and went in a mans office tat lat I 1 had bad heard beard about him and 1 I lid ild I 1 getting enough money i 1 old clil so lie he said what did I 1 ant and I 1 said I 1 wanted a raise ond and e gave it to me so as I 1 say here we are living in real neck keck and getting more salary lan inn out in old chi and all our debts ted and they cant sew us on cit of how much it costs on acct acca of ie and here we are livelong i the lapse of luxury in longs island nil nd all as ue e half to do Is to keep ut of old clil chi or go their incognito nil nd on occa acct of 0 the wife seeing the day corporation ad to in this ere magazine which the pu pure read pig ng matter was so bad that she felt ke site she had to read the ads now gents I 1 dont want you to tak ly testimony without no supports so will tell you about a couple of lends of mine along the same lines hat was in as pretty a pickle like e and seen the same ad and got the ime ima results as us or better ns as fol pore beginning with a letter I 1 got om a friend of mine name ahns larke as follows dear old pal you know liow low milred and I 1 used to struggle alons along hile I 1 was earning 1000 per week a clerk in the don bon ton market which ly uncle owned it ft find and I 1 was tile the only air well one day mildred read me lie he rainy day corporation ad in one f tile the magazines about how to pull our out of 0 ohp rut so she wrote hem and they wrote back ie to quit being tile llie clerk and become lie he prop so EO one day I 1 took a big leaver and used it on my unc uncle and and ly the time I 1 got through there here enough left of him film to he prop it if a soda fountain in culon sip si now 1 I nil ind mildred Is running the market ind lust last year we loyed away 1 RS the other letter Is from a carpenter friend of mine that lives at fifth bivenue venue and 70 st BL and la in 2 yrs ars he was only able to save KO so I 1 tay lay him and tits his wife happened to tn see ee i rad ach and begin lna und and she he een tills this nd ad and wrote to the itallie day corporation anti they hack block ond and told him film to rime raze he il II and an art t mure inore money so po he wrote role to llie lite ilion and told foll hem he car nil more unless they give hint intire ire money so go they ghe blin a rilde ond and now lie he Is molina more than a st car and not noi haleing ij 14 pis ns annd a ehtle thill that la Is the way it come off biays and girls and it if you are sia lilied to RO po along warring about I 1 financial mt filat teis wll alii well and good but it if my little talk haa showed you the wo way out why w to y I 1 urn oil satisfied without tio tin further numerations only file knowledge that I 1 helped drog you out of the meyer 0 10 by the lh bell syndicate inai |
