Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-04-20 | Page 41 | The Man with the Grouch

r i THE MAN WITH I Ii i THE GROUCH J L T was the latest Everybody E book 2 wa was reading It orI or I had read It or was about to read It That Tha t Is to say la 4 everybody ox except J z the Man with 4 Grouch hr u i No o he hI said saidI I firm firmly I would 1 Ii Iii not read it if It It were the last book to be written n. I 1 dare sa say rm Im hO honester ster than most of my friends In this respect I heard hear Blinks quoting from the tho confounded story story yes yes actually quoting quoting and and and h he hasn't read the darn thing His Ills wife read it for tor him and told him the plot and some somo of at the choice anecdotes Then Blinks goes around posing as a. a. a man mn of ot extensive reading 1 1 i of I 1 c. VL P Th I Ii i d. 1 POSTS HER ABOUT ALL THE N NEW W 5 BOOKS But he I Isn't nt any ln worse than Aim fra Know Every afternoon when that awful ful creature is having her face fac plou ploughed hed h her r c eyelashes eI bleached and her hair hall glued on she Rhe sits alts In a a. chair for tor an hour or more As if It that wasn't bad enough she piles plIes on the agony on b by having a young woman stand in front of ot her hel And post her about all tho the new now books the latest thing thing- In music or the craziest movement move move- j ment meat In art Then Mrs Irs Know Inow toddles off ott ottto to afternoon tea or to the tho opera and Is prepared to show herself hersel a n. little bit bettor Informed than her neighbors I dont don't see how hot you OU find time to read f so o much murmurs some Borne poor In Innocent Innocent innocent In- In who isn't on to the came game Catch mo me reading Not ot on your life Ute The stock reports and the racing re returns returns returns re- re turns are exciting enough for me Besides I dont don't like liko the vulgarity of or modern fiction The Tb old fashioned stuff stutt abo about t Lad Lady Vere Vue de Vet Ver or the Princess was wad what I liked I refuse to r read at about Mrs Pigge of ot th the tho Waga e Catch and Polly Folly of ot the Back Baek Street I dont don't have to read about them I meet them every day In th the cars cara and nd andon d don on the sidewalk