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STORY BY JOHNY. n. y., aug. 19. all mrs. brooks needed was sumboddy to hold the baby she done the rest " -mrs. brooks is a lady that dont like mashers any woman that dont like mashers has a ruff time of it in n. y. they run about 6 to the block mrs. brooks was riding in a sub way trane with her baby when one of the grand army of lady killers set down next to her my, what a pretty baby, he says, but it aint nearly as pretty as its ma. mrs. brooks 'she give him a look i that ought to have s howed him he was backin into the wrong sid ing, but, shucks, them guys cant take a hint they never can get it through - their nut that any dame can help falling in love with them at first site well, this boob he waited a cup pie of minutes, so mrs. brooks could take him all in and see what " a- choice piece of goods he was, then he give her a nudge " you dont mind me talkin to you, do you, he says mrs. brooks she dideht anser ; him. she says to a dame, setting on the other side of her, please hold my baby for me ' the dame took the baby, and mrs. brooks handed the gent a cupple of short arm jabs that was all to the bat nelson well, he was closed for repairs till the trane got to 125 street and mrs. brooks got off , this" guy got off also, and he stepped up to her, and he says, you will strikd me, will you, and. he slapped her face thats the kind of a guy a mash er is. you get their number right there please hold my baby for me, says mrs. brooks to the same woman that had been setting next to her in the trane while the woman was talcing the baby the guy beat it mrs. brooks chased him 3 blocks, and she caught him, and when a cop come to his rescue she had busted her umbreller on .him, and he looked like sumthing that fido had fished out of the gar bidge. can then she went back and got the baby the more mrs. brookses th merrier, say i Jonnv, o o OUR PRECISE ARTIST. em orr'.J . ?r "v .its J" Protested checks. . J Av-aa-fcAVi'ritfiiitfi- IHtilHlHMH