THE CHINA MAILS FRIDAY, FIUL
The Apostate
(Continued from @uga 9)
and your mamma can Just go some- wheres else and put up. I. don't guess the hotels have quit Jun- ning." I sars to him.
By now I was on my high horse right, see?
“Now, Dad.” Hubert says: “it'si not that I mean, personly I'm awful proud of you. It's just that I haven't been pledged to this fraternity long. some of those
see, and when older members
found out ru wax a Rotarian they would deal me a lot of misery, and)
I couldn't say nothing. Personly
I think Rotary is all right.” he says to me.
"Well, you better, son," I says, "or I'm going to begin to think that you're sick in the bead.”
The way he explained it, though, Harry, that made it a horse of a different tail, as the saying goes. so I give in and took off my Rotary button right there. Stuck it in my pocket, see? So we went on out and visited at Hubert's fraternity į house, and do you know that those boys just got around there and treated we folks like we Was princes of the blood. I mean you would of thought that I was an old ex-graduate of that university. And we saw the big pig-skin tussle the next day, fourteen to aught, favour us, and we had such al scrumptious time all around I for- | got all about what Hubert had) said.
Everthing would of been all; right, except for what happened | later. I gutss some of those i older boys at the frat house begin nsing their form of psychology on Hubert. I mean they finely got his mind set against Rotary, be- cause when he came home for the summer vacation that was about the size of things.
I mean all last summer I thought Hubert never would let up. He just kept it up; making sarcastic remarks about Rotary, see? Even when we was on our vacation trip, You know we drove out to Cali- fornia and back last summer, Harry. Come back with the same air in the tyres we started out with Well, I thought it would be kind of nice to drop in and eat with the Hollywood Rotary-you know, just to be able to say I had.
bad
So I contacted them and ever thing all fixed up. Well, ́ do you know that that boy Hübert made so much fun of the idea just had to give it up? That was the way
it was the whole trip.
He got his mother around on his side, too. Just to be frank with you. I never got so sick and tired of anything in all my born days.
Well, Harry, I had my dander up there for a while, and all the bickering in the world couldn't of shook me from my stand. But finely Hubert went back to college in September, and I thought I would have a little peace. Then I just got to thinking about it, and it all come over me. “Look here, Mister Man." I says to myself, “your faith and loyalty to Rotary may be a fine thing and all that,| but it's just costing you the fellow- ship of your own son" Now & man can't practise Rotary In the higher sense, and yet at the same time be letting his own son's fel- lowship get loose from him. So there it was. Blood's thicker than water, Harry. You'll have to admit that.
me.
Right along in there, Harry, was the first time I begin to attending meetings irregular. 11 tell you-- you might not think so-but it was a pretty tough struggle for I remember one Monday noon, Rotary-meeting day, I hap pened to walk past the Hotel Beckman just at lunch-time, The windows of the Venetian. Boom was open, and I could hear you boys singing a Rotary song: You know that one we sing set to the time of "Last Night on the Back Porch." It goes
I love the Lions in the morning,
The Exchange Club at night,
I love the Y's men in the Evez-
ای
ing,
And Kiwanis are
Well, I couldn't carry a time if
I had it in a sack, but
that's the way it goes. stopped in my tracks
there listening to Sings
to the last
Just
NOW IF YOU FOLLOW OUT MY INSTRUCTIONS
JUST AS TIVE TOLD YOU, TEL- RAISE YOUR WAGES.
DONT WORRY
IT'S RAINING-NOW THERE'LL BE NO PARTY AND I'M TICKLED TO
DEATH.
[THAT'S TH'
GYPSY IN YOU.
ALL RIGHT! YOU KIN SHUT OFF
THE RAIN.
Rosie's BEAU
GEL MANUS
Regis
Bringing Up Father
NO SLIP-UP AN WHEN I COME
·OUT I'LL GIVE YOU A SIGNAL
WHEN TO STOP
HERE COMES MAGGIE 1 MUST LOOK
SERIOUS.
I SEE DINTY MOORES. LAWN-PARTY ADVER TISED IN THE PAPER YOU THINK YOU ARE
GOING TO IT. BUT
YOU'RE NOT
OM 15 THAT TO-NIGHT?
NOW I'LL LOCK YOUR RAIN-COAT ÎN MY CLOSET AND I'LL RETIRE AND NOT WORRY ABOUT YOU GOING OUT.
GOOD NIGHT,
MY LOVE.
O-KAY, MR.JIGGS! YOU'RE A
SMART
MAN.
ARCHIE IS LEAVING |
THE HOSPITAL TO-DAY HE LOVES
ME HIS PRETENSE AT BEING ILE- PROVES THAT.
CALL AN AMBULANCE!!
IKIN HEAR HER SNORIN
SO ALL IS WELL.
IT COST A LOT OF COIN TO PRE- TEND I WAS ILL,
BUT IT MADE ROSIE FORGIVE ME, SO IT WAS WORTH IT
SHINE ON -
SHINE ON.
NOW FER DINTY'S
LAWN
PARTY
SILVER MOON --
Kic, Great Britain zij
AN NO FAKE
IT'S THE GYPSY IN ME
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