Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1919 — Cigarettes Do This. [ARTICLE]

Cigarettes Do This.

got up this morning and came down town an went to the restaurant to eat because I was hungry and hadn’t had anything to eat and sat down beside a man and said good morning and he said nothing and I said do you think there will be a coal strike and he asked me who I was and what I cared what he thought about it and I told him I didn’t care—much so he said well then don’t bother me so I went out thinking perhaps I was a nuisance and went on down the street to where the leading jewelry store is located and i said good morning to the man and he said good morning and then said what do you want and I told him nothing and he said well then don’t bother me as you’re a nuisance and I went out thinking perhaps I was a nuisance and across the street to see the dandy little dry cleaner and he had a grouch on and when I said good morning he said nothing except that he was tired of working and then he asked 'me what I wanted and I said nothing and he said he didn’t want me around because I was a nuisance and that he didn’t care to be bothered with me and that I wasn’t a trade getter so T went out thinking perhaps I was a nuisance and went down the street to the furniture storeman and I didn’t take with him very well either and he wouldn’t have anything to do with me because he said me and my paper are a nuisance and don’t print things that are so about him and that besides he had to run the elevator and didn’t care to be bothered with me and said that I was a nuisance and I went on further down the street thinking perhaps I was a nuisance to see the clothing merchant but he wasn’t up yet so there wasn’t any chance to bother him but the red headeM man that works for him told me I was a nuisance so I felt well repaid for my visit . and went ou tthinking perhaps I was a nuisance and came, back to my own little dugout where I knew I would be welcome and thinking what a hell of A grouchy old world this is. With apologies to Ring.