Judge — January 12, 1918 — page 6: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

A Paper to Write By PAUL CREIGHTON “ LMER, dear,” said Mrs. Baxter coax- ingly to her husband as he was reaching out for a cigar to light before taking up the evening paper, “can’t you put off reading your paper for a few minutes and give me a little help or suggestion in regard to a paper I have to write for our Study Club? I wish you would, dear. The paper is to be about ‘The Situation in the Mexico of Today’ and I am not sure that I even know the exact location of Mexico or who is king or emperor or president or whatever they have up there.” “You'd better say ‘down there’ instead of ‘up there’ when referring to Mexico before your club,” said “ Elmer, und then he added, * What is it you want to know?” “Oh, all about the country, and I think they are having’some kind of a disturbance down there and I have to tell what it is allabout. I really and truly didn’t want to write the paper, and I would have refused only I thought that if I did they would say lea AFTER THE WAR Husbands used to carrying packs will be at a premium. “Why is he looking so stuck on himself.” “He's a lucky beggar. only been out here two months, and been in the hospital five times!” that I didn’t know anything about it, don’t you know? And I I wasn’t going to have them ‘ing that. Now I will take this pencil and a pad of paper and jot down what you tell me, for I have to have the paper ready by day after tomorrov The main points I want to know are, where is Mexico and how big it is and who is king or queen or governor or whatever they have and what is the ‘situation’, as the president of the club called it, down there? I presume that there is some kind of a ‘situation’ there or she wouldn't have spoken of it in that way. She said something about a man named Villanous, or something like that, and a another man named Caraway or Cranzy. I didn’t hear very well but I heard enough to know there is a ‘situation’ of some kind, and I want to know all about it. and who made it and—O, I remember that she said something about the ‘revolution’ in Mexico. What revolution? What’: got into the people that they are fight- ing and revolutionizing everywhere I suppose that I ought to tell how large the population is and who they are and what they do and I suppose it would interest the ladies if I said something about the styles in dress. Seems to me I have read something about Mexico being a cannibal country. Or was it Mrica? Buc what T want to know most is what the president meant: by : ing what she did about the ‘situation’ in Mexico. What ‘situation’? And who made it?) And why don’t they get rid of it? As T say. I wouldn't have agreed to prepare the paper only I didn’t want them to suppose that I was so ignorant I didn’t know anything about Mexico. I want my paper to be real informing and let them know that I know as much as the next one about the ‘situation’ - down there. Now tell me all about it in just five or ten minutes and I will go upstairs and begin on my paper. There's one thing about a study club like ours, it makes you think and work. It isn’t just a good-time club. All the members have to prepare papers and really work!” |