Show coi what wt 05 Cobb abou a bouti western hostelries AN FRANCISCO CALIF calf S SAN they have m mighty fine hotels 74 in this town ive stayed at several of them and friends of i mine have been put out of sorn of the others and once I 1 enjoyed a fire scare scar here when the alarm at 3 30 a m w brought to the lobby a swarm of moving picture actors without n any makeup on and not much else this was in the era of the silent films but you have dreamed it to hear the remarks of rl an hysterical lady n star when she discovered that her chow had been for irvi IrvinS cobb gotten the current husband also was temporarily missing but she was comparatively calra calm about that she probably probable figured a husband could be picked up almost any time whereas darling little poo had a long pedigree and rep resented quite a financial dinv inv invest estl i ment and anyhow was a perm permanent anent fixture in her life through the strike here the traveling public seemed to make out outa maybe visitors followed the oli ola southern custom stop with kinfolks kin folks think though how great would 4 have been the suffering had them th 3 strike occurred during prohibition P days when transient guests might have perished of thirst without withof bright uniformed lads to bring them first aid packages in the handy hip pocket sizes bellhops qualified as lifesavers life savers those times humans in the raw A AS s I 1 behold vast numbers of tel fel low beings strolling the thai beaches yes and the public thor i ough fares too while wearing as few clothes as possible and it seems to be possible to wear very few indeed I 1 dont know whether to admire them for their courage or sympathize with them in their suffering eringa or deplore their inability to realize that be easier on the eye it if quit trying to emulate the tha raw oyster which never has been pretty to look upon and generally speaking is an acquired taste any how for a gentleman who ordinarily bundles himself in heavy garments clear up to his adams apple this warm weather strip act entails a lot of preliminary 1 ary torture at first our gallant exhibitionist resembles a forked stalk of celery bleached out in the cellar soon he is one large red blot on the landscape with fat water blisters spangling his brow i until he looks as if he were wearing a chaplet of malaga grapes la in the next stage he peels like the wallpaper on an ohio valley parlor after flood time 0 i destructive hired help SOMEBODY found a stained glass window in an english church dating back to A D but still intact and from the ruins of a roman villa dug out a marble figure of apollo the one the mineral water was named after in a perfect state although 2000 years old these discoveries are especially interesting to this family as tending to show that hired help what it must have been in the ancient time we once had a maid of the real old viking stock who with the best intentions intentions on earth broke everything she laid finger on moreover she could stand flatfooted flat footed in the middle of a large room and cause 1 I treasured articles article s of virtu such as souvenirs of the st louis worlds fair and the china urn I 1 won for i superior spelling back in 1901 1904 at the elks carnival to leap to the floor and be smashed to atoms she have to touch them or even go near them I 1 think she did it by animal magnetism or capillary attraction or something 0 of that nature the first time we saw the win winged ged victory mrs cobb and I 1 de decided aided it must have been an ancestor oti helsa belsa who tried to dust it with the disastrous results familiar to all lovers of classic statuary 0 0 0 the reaping season CERTAIN crops may not have done so well due to weather conditions or as some diehard die hard republicans would probably con tend because of new deal control but on the other hand it been a splendid ripening season for sit downs walk waW outs s shut hut ups lockouts and picket lines it makes me think of t the he little story the late myra kelly used to t tell of the time when she was a public school teacher on new yorks east side she was questioning her class of primary grade pupils touching on the callings of their respective spec tive parents she came to one tiny sad eyed little girl shabby and ulin thin and shy rosie she asked at what does your father work me mein poppa he dont never work wons teacher said rosie he do anything at all aur for oh dessum we well ll 11 what does he do he strikes IRVIN invin S I 1 COBB 0 service |