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Although there is no excuse
This book could start
a revolution
Russia
in
By C. V. R. Thompson
T
NEW YORK, Apr. 18.
HE postman delivered a neat brown parcel today. All it contain- ed was a book. And yet I found myself handling it gingerly. For in the right book has atmosphere this the reputation of being dynamite.
A silver fox scort she cannot resist will cost. £8 8s. There is: not a blouse over £2. --
And nylons?
They are down to three pairs for 12s. #d.
Gents' Dept.
Is-something good called
MY department at Inst. There two-some. For 11 gutreas I get. two outfits, one a simple grey F. D. R. is said to have lounge sull with matching cont started that theory. Bomb and trousers, and the other
contrasting pair of clacks to be Russia. with a million copies worn with the grey cont. of it, he once remarked, and you would have a revolu- tion in Russia.
But this book has just gone out to nearly 50 mil- lion Americans without the slightest effect. There is something mysterious here. So let us examine the book. It is just n catalogue-
Underneath there are easy instructions for me to measure myself so that the suit will t like a glove, which, Incidental- b will cost me half a crown a palr.
There are nylons for me, too, guaranteed for six months, at Ds. for three pairs. called "a wallopin' bargain" in white shirts at 8s. Dd. aplece. I am passing over. the pages of dress fabrics (from 25. Od. 1o 7s, ad. per yard) and But sewing nccessories because the who can handle a needle is my only person in my household daughter, and she tries to swal- low them. And I don't need a cobbler's kitchen.
On page 335 there is what is.
for a horse not behaving like a or catalog, as its publishers gentleman despite many cases insist on spelling it.
in the
of grave provocation, may Ithere is no catalogue like it offer one or two possible ex-anywhere else planations of this unfortunate world.
breach of good manners?
It should be first of all under-
Giving it away
stood that horses do not ke T is put out by a Chicago 'firm called Sears Roebuck "I do mean Mansy boy," said One day delusions of grandeur racing, especially steeplechasing. The Cat, "You win,”
vanish, and underpaid. Hundreds of people will tell you and it brings them so much "But look here," sald The office boy worm will find he has that they do like it, just as hun-business that they are will They had been listening to Dog, "you can't eat Mansy, you been living in tool's paradise.
the know."
dreds of huntsmen will tell you ing to spend $12 million Twenty Questions. When
every year to give it away radio was switched off The Cat
"I can and will if the meat sald to The Dog :-
ration gets much smaller," said and made' bankrupt. not until Although I do not pretend to end to buy six tons of 2d.
"Hungry men have pig sty is sold up and wife, who be a psychiatr'ct, this point of stamps to deliver it. think you have The Cat.
to play this eaten dogs and cats before now "
is already laughing stock of view is nothing more than a
In glaucing through it, I Worm's Avenue, is dragged into simple case of the subconscious discover that if I did not "But he's our friend."
"Do you enough brains game?"
"I'll try," said The Dog, with a modest grin. "Shouldn't we give them their supper first?"
He pointed with his paw to The Man and The Woman.
"They've had their one meal today," said The Cat
"It was only belied cod," said The Dog. "Not much nourish ment in balled cod."
"That's what they gave us."
"The cats and dogs were often the friends of the hungry men," "But surely." sold The Dog. "you'd eat almost anything bo fore Mansy boy7"
But not until worm is sacked that a fox likes being hunted.
gulter.
Lowerwather
This study by the scastic.
He was reading Crippt's Bud- vet,
C
50
Ect or tiles for the
1 am ordering sheets at 0s. a pair, including mono-
grams, and some organdle bed- room curtains at 10s. a pair. even if it is down 15
last year. nor do I want u fiddle, a guitar, or a drum tet,
I don't need any furniture, percent.
Kit., bath
AM very interested in new
I linoleum for the kitchen at £6, and especially as the oblig
the
mind admitting guilt and the
to want to go to New York I ing Mr Sears and Mr Roebuck
out to t will cut it all consolous mind attempting
the could buy everything-ex shape of the room and send me shed the guilt by puiting
cept food-that I need from the tools to lay it. blame on the victim.
now to Christmas merely by sending in a few num- hers, my name and address and, of course, a cheque.'
Yea, you can spend your cote.
Sears
in
It is an attempt to establish "Yes," said The Cat, springing at The Woman, who dived under
innocence normally found the sofa, "Pd eat her first.
children and adolescents, though When I was hungry she told me Cripps's Budget he was reading occasionally in normal adults to catch mice."
Diary of a worm
In his study in the Sea Nesi, And he noted without Interest that his margarine was dearer.
like Hitter.
In any case, if somebody earliest days in
a
There is an item on page 844 There which I find fascinating.
are .only two bath- in house, and is
an almost the sanitary
rooms in my America that offence against
Well.
along come the inde- Mr fatigable Mr Sears and
sald The Cat. "One meal a day HORM arrives home to say he That his meat and cheese were should tell you that a horse pre- 1 Rocbuck cot, grow up in 11 Roebuck with an offer to send Spoiled cou, except that you Weed new suit in belef bad your #lthy biscuits, said it kept us fit."
"They didn't know for," said_The_Dog_
They
"They knew better than to ent wald The Cat. it themselves," "They kept it on three meals u day and chicken twice a week."
"as it turns -lls-atonicchi-cour;. si turns his stomach sour.
b'iter sour, sour bitter,
sour, sour bitter, bitter ha-ha laughing
Budget
"Poor old Munsy boy," said what is loft of paltry pittance on He was reading rubbins.
The Dog, stroking The
tomorrow at twelve, eh?"
up with last summer's flowered print.
In his Sec Nest by the seaside, that he'll still be paying taxes. "Wife wouldn't mind so mud: Paying still the highest tree to
buy dentures by the dosen. if worm "paid for dress" Has manager, who has fine, com- To buy dentures by the dozen, by. the dozen, by the million. to good manding Agure, goes
Uko
That would probably explain
Mr
play nitor, and always looks genti:- For a million 100thiess strangers, Furry Glen's charge at the book of one volume of the Lon- Roebuck seem no longer to be
Roebuck prefab,
ne by relurn a bath and wash- the racecourse to being Sears dearer and a pint of heer was fera
free in its natural home on the wearing at every ago Sears basin and all.
That's not all. Knowing full cheaper.
plumber that purchase inx would be cut.
under
Sears well I have to pay a He has also telebrated penny off Yes, his bitter beer was cheaper. prairie it makes about as much Roebuck clothes, and spond
nse as saying a fish prefers to eternity
and his inevitable mate £14 n It was cheaper by a penny,
Roebuck gravestone.
day, that friendly pair will cut any bet pint of beer.
water drain and Oh, so this is how worm wel when he cannot stomach, bitter be out of the star
all the comes austerity Budget,-in it?
Therefore-il-sometimes hap- Their catalogue, which cut
-pipes-to-lt so that even a dun- things chr Not content with pouring
than isillustrateu more
derhead at these over
pens that a horse's patience
to the house for link it all up more and more
money
Cust£54. counter in low tavern because
exhausted and it goes berserk 100,000 items-n car like Furry Glen.
myself, a brassiere for my plumbing. And the disgusting beer is cheaper, mul- Bitter lionaire worm now has to spend
Another point frequently over-wife, a copy of the Bible, delivered.
With 400 pages of window. Man's W
shopping yet to do I am begin- bald head. "Lovely bold rod new suit while wife has to P And he noted with deep sorrow looked is that, to a horse, the two dozen white Leghorn
ng to catch on to the dyna human face is not only hideous, chicks, roofing material, a
new rust, or a collapsible mite in this book of mine. but frighteningly hideous.
nathtub-is about the size
Already Mr Sears and don telephone directory. It remote pillars of Already has 1.164 pages. Paying taxes to inspectors,
And the kindly Mr Sears and almost members of my family. or shabby tweeds.
the income-tax inspectors,
ME
Ir Roebuck promise
All cheaper Wife would think mency well
unfortunate within 24 hours of getting spent if puny worm could be To the income-tax collectors
paying taxes, taxes, fazes, given d'galty by first-class
way to me from the invisible No wonder there are millions tailer, who would widen narrow Half the money in his pocket lady in the mink coat, I can only order that order will be on its
half the money in his banke
apologize on behalf of all horses, staff of machine-like clerks and of Americans who wrile to order their shoulders with smooth,
book.
un- clerk-like machines which they them, not only to
but to tell them how to koode out up must maintain to generous cut, hide not belly with
Junior is making out at school. sweeping lines, and choose cloth Half the money that he's earn though I would like her ing, leaps to incet them, leaps derstand that if women which is both distinguished and
to meet them,
wear the skin of animals It is 250,000 items every 24 hours.
This year Me Sears and Mr unassuming. Instead of letting To buy dentures by the million, not impossible for a horse to Children first
Rocbuck have brought down their prices for the first time in At the time he's buying dens mistake them for animals wear-
done over to the eight years. move
They have tures, shining dentures for the
Ing bumun faces, which, fi must toothless,
do that because there is a slump a admited, is terrifying dining-room table and
zome shopping.
and they want to keep my busi- spectacle...
First the
Children's Depart- ness from going elsewhere. There are 122
pages This reminds me of the story men!.
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"Are
you ready to
Cat
Twenty Questions?" asked The man whether in smart town sult For a million tatal Etrangers,
"Certainly," said The Dog. "Animal, vegetable, or mineral?"
"Animal."
"How many legs?"
Two." "Feathers?"
"No."
"Holr?"
"A little."
"Is it monkey?"
worm
wor
about 20 Worm's Avenue"
"No. Six questions. Fourteen stripes three inches
Liko
to go."
"Domestic?"
"Yes,"
-RKO-
"You can, if you must."
ture belonging to the animal
kingdom without fur or feathers.
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But they pass on this news, to of an English hunting women covering everything from swad-
that our great big happy family frock. who was so much like a horse ding clothes to that first dance me as if they were telling me that she was once locked in a I have picked out a cotton had suddenly come into stable for the night. A horse of ult
in the next daughter (price 48. but a Hille hair," said The Dog have forgotten that although
my acquaintanco
prosperous land of "And you can eat it. A plucked Budget
78. 6d.), and a new pair at plenty, like America today this chicken?"
cheaper. It has made running of Letter from a horse box smashed down the partition yellow washable cotton dress
and kicked her rather badly,
white shoes there are Instruc- Ir all good business. But in of Course, how to Yugoslavia or Russia-and per- ib, on "It's not a plucked chicken," sty dearer. Although Id. n
Although he was blamed for Lions;
haps even, to zeme extent, in on margarine may mean
he had, in measure properly-for 7. d. sold The Cat. "Nine questions nething to lordly, Beau Brumm-DEAR SI
May 3, as one of your con- savage behaviour.
Women's Department present-day. Britain this could orm, struting mell worm
pear stant renders be allowed to fact, mistaken her for his sister, The
My all be dangerous reading. This Man was gotting excited, Cock, in loud new clothes and make some observations in your and was unly trying to say hello. covers nearly 200 pages:
wife has pleked out what she
It could make people ask if flinging money at brewers like
darling tweed' spring- Jumbing about and pawing at
Incident on the Hoping your wife and family calls a has The Dog, with his little hands prince filinging money at beggars, valuably column on a recent
coat for £5 125, and an equally Capitalism is really to decadent. to carettable The Dog Uckled his moustache provide meals on same house racecourse
Scrape-and-save. wife
darling spring suit of classic I could demonstrate far more I refer to the behaviour of the and the tufts of hair round 'his
and spend 1s.
sharkskin," guaranteed to resist effectively than a specch or kesping money
the cleaners ravages, for the columns of statisties that, free cats,
enterprise does its customers, 2d. Instead of 10d. on dirty bit Irish horse Furry Glen when he crashed into the members enclo-
enme price, and an afternoon "A little hair," repeated The of scrag.
scattered nure at Cheltenham,
dress of black rayon crepe for as well as itself, pretty proud. Dog! "You can cat it if you
£ 10. 11d.
→(London· Exprvae Service) myst'. I say, you don't mean One day, of course, peacock the bookmakers, and chased a Mahsy boy?"
worn will wake up to realities. woman in a mink coat.
NANCY
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I HOPE. HE DOESN'T TRY TO VISIT ME
TODAY
are well,
I remain, sir.
Yours faithfully,
A. HORSE.
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