Show 0 oil about after dinner speeches H HOUSTON TEXAS lately for my sins ive had to listen to a jag of oratory including plenty of mine I 1 hope people like to hear me I 1 do 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 since sincere r e and earnest drinking drinkin in an effort to forget what the stock market did to them yesterday and what its going to do to them tomorrow irvin brym 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 im speaking of their neighborhoods although I 1 might include their mouths are still convinced that the sweetest music on e earth ar th is the sound of ones own voice an english preacher had the best formula stand up to be seen speak up to be heard shut up to be appreciated it if hed left out all but the last part atwould have been a perfect recipe tomorrows tre treasures agures ANT to acquire acquin e untold wealth WANT ifor tor your latter years or anyhow for your grateful heirs then collect things collect cheap things which are both common and commonplace then sit down and wait tor 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 merius menus or buggy whips or those hand painted slop jars formerly found in all truly refined homes henry ford or some come museum would take a lot at any price im putting aside literary works of a purely imaginative conception I 1 h have a ve one perfect specimen of idyllic ii c creation a timetable time table of the old florida east coast railroad also a complete working synopsis of the townsend plan just sheer fantasy germanys germanas Germ anys colonies VERY nation is united in the EVERY 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 bard 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 an any y 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 world where would the white mans noble civilization be co cosmopolites Cosmo HE last time before this that T THE captain mike hogg and major raymond dickson returned to their ranch at casa blanca mexico they were just back from new york that night at the bunkhouse the hands bands mostly texas lads fore gani ered to hear the bosses tell about the wonders of the great city one or two of them had visited new york so these cosmopolitans proceeded to exhibit their familiarity with its sights major said one 1 I reckon old grants tombs still doin business at the same stand eh and I 1 bet the aquarium I 1 is s rig right w where here she was when I 1 was th 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 sea travelers showing off he be mean to be left out he waited for an opening caan mike he said tell me ts Is that there same teller feller still the hotel in new york IRVIN S C copyright service |