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yP??Sp5?!-W'v3S7'v PH wants a guy" dat can do a !manks -work in a man's day, but dey wants de guys dat kin do two men's work for half of one guy's pay, so I gets' a couple of days a week and I salts de coin away and den I get down on me back wit', oh, well wit' what guys gets dat don't get grub for free days and den eats like hogs, and I spends all but two bucks and den I'm weak as a rat, and I goes out to Sout' Dakota and dere I gets a day here and dere and I gets a stake of ten bucks to get me shoes and pants, 'cause me over alls what I travels in is worn t'ru, and I beats it back and de railroad dicks makes it hot for me an dey t'rows me off and de com is gone, andw'et'er I was robbed or it rolled out of me pants I ain't wise, but de coin's gone and I picks up a day's work for a 'hen' in de suburbs and I gets me meals and one buck and I got four bits' of it left "Dat's de story of me life," he said. And when he walked away I stood in the shadow of the church and watched him go, with the wind flap ping at the tear in his pants whe.re the bare flesh showed through and his feet that .touched the cold side walk as he put them down with each weary step, and I remembered a con versation I had with a woman who had never done a day's work in her life, but into whose hands has been placed, by the city administration, the power to say what Chicago shall do with men like these; "I've been told on very good au thority that most of them are bums who don't want to work." the pressure of the air on the surfacb of the liquid you are sucking squeezes it at once up into the tube where you have made room for it By suction you make room for the liquid at the top of the 'tube and the air presses" it into it What seems like pulling' is simply clearing the way so that what ever is behind it may be pushed forward. MOVIE PERSONALITIES t WHY SODA WATER RUNS UP A STRAW When the soda water rushes up the straw you are not pulling it up, though that is what you seem to be doing. The liquid is really being pushed upward and it is air that is pushing it When you pull on the straw in the glass of soda water you lessen the pressure of air inside the tube and Tblly" MbraTir Pretty Polly Moran is the latest Keystonite to buy an auto. She drives it anywhere and everywhere (and stops for nothing). Recently she drove it down to the beach, but did not turn Out for the ocean. On and on went the car, until the briny thinned out the gasoline and she was a hundred yards from the shore. After being towed in she continued her mad way until she ran through the front of a grocery and stoppedv And Polly still insists she's some driver. o o Scandal when one pets into thn limelight withdut'makeup on.' j-' MaaUMMMMMIgMiMIMiMii