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BSSBSSIESSBBBBS&k -mmmmm CHESTNUT CHARLIE 1N&U-VJ6LI.- UA-A-AAU U AIN'T NATURE WONDERFUL! The Hotel Lobby What has become of the old fashioned museum, -George? Y' got me, Sol. "Well, Roland, it's went. The twin jitney museum is now ancient. Since the masses got acquainted with ho tel lobbies the lid was nailed down hard on the freak emporium and smothered with moth balls. Go into a hotel lobby any time of the day or on the way home in the morning, hide behind a palm (we don't mean the bell hop hee! hee! that ain't 'alf bad, wot?) Get your orbs focused and watch the frisk ing freaks or lobby leopards in their native haunts. F'rinstance, see that very impor 'tant looking Luke strutting around wearing his soft hat a la devil-may-care father-is-rich sort of a way? Lookit him putting oh airs. Now he goes up to the desk; asks if there's a telegram or some maiL Out loud now, so every one can hear you: "I'm expecting a telegram from N'Yawk. I'll be in the dining room." Then he goes up to the porter and asks, not very loud, but just so he can be heard two blocks away: "I say, porter! When is the next train for New Orleans?" Oh! he's the best in the first race. There's "many such as him, Ralph. Putting on phoney dog. Wants ev eryone to think he's so bored with hotel life. Fifteen times out of 10 he's a salesman for men's garters, or carries a sample case of sewing ma chine oil. ' Look! Look! This one coming with a cane, spats, holding his hat in his hand and lard in his hair that he spent 35 minutes in front of a mir ror slicking up. He's sore because , he hasn't got an electric sign on his b.ck letting everybody know he's an actor. C'mon, Jake, let's hoof it away. Letts go over to Fogarty's gymna sium and watch Terrible Henneeey work out H6S A6oab one N5VJER STABLE WTW.PCECFS 0P ARABIA'? WHY NEEP A MAN' ?, N2? I NOW TO &T AN ANSWER. VW c ahS, t"ov" "P this we , 7T9H IT ?UKT OUEU: ANWEttll BECAUSE OF THE THEaE!' WHICH? Visiting Curate Willie, everything you do is either for God or for Sa tan. Think of that, my boy, every time you choose. Willie When dad says I can take my choice between a spanking and going to bed without supper which side is Satan on? Puck. i tJjmsto&MJS