Life — August 6, 1925 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE - The Parlor Organ Y' )U speakin’ of them Victreolas ‘minds me Doc Brady was tellin’ of the time they had up to the Corners "bout the orgin. It seems Wally Bascomb’s takin’ vocal up to the City, no one knows why, unless it’s to git some of his Pa’s money off his hands, he ain’t got no more voice, Doc ys, than a hen with the pip. Well, it seems they was thinkin’ some of gettin’ one of them Parlor Orgins for the meetin’ house, and Doc says the parson asked Wally to inquiries how much them orgins wds bringin’ up to the City, and it seems Wally got the thing twisted, same’s he always done, an’ Doc says fust thing they knew one of them orgins come up from the City. Doc says the truck men didn’t know where in time to deliver the orgin, but finally Abel Simpkins at the Post Ofiice cal'lated they'd better go up an’ see the parson, The parson was out rakin’ off his lawn and was dumfounded when he scen the orgin comin’ into the yard. Doc says the truck men was all for dumpin’ the orgin right on the lawn, but the parson told ’em it wa'n't a-goin’ there anyway, even if they decided to take it. lty that time Doc says there was considerable of a crowd around the fence an’ in the yard and it seems Deacon Pills- bury was in there. Doe says the deacon takes the parson’s g for his hogs, and the deacon thought they'd oughter hear the orgin afore decidin’ anythin’. But Doc says there wa'n't nobody around could play on the darned thing, and one of the truck men said the other one a fust- pianer player, that there wa'n't nothin’ he couldn't play. says the truck man, the one the other one ‘lowed was ner player, weighed three hundred if he weighed a etary (id She: HAVE YOU BEEN WAITING LONG, DARLIN “ONLY FIVE CIGARETTES AND TWO CIGARS.” SH IT MAY BE STATIC TO SOME PEOPLE, BUT IT's GRAND OPERA TO HIM. pound, an’ Doc says he trembled for that orgin when he set down to play. Well, it scems the truck man started in with some tune Doe says is all the rage up to the City, somethin’ "bout Red Hot Mama, and the parson said it wa'n't a hymn he was familiar with and Doe says the truck man, not the one that played, but the one that said there wa'n't nothin’ the other one couldn't play, bust right out laughing. But just then some one druv by, an’ it scems it was Miss Nettie Phillbrick, the orginist, Doc says she's as pretty as a picture, an’ the deacon calls out, “You're jest what we was wantin’ !" Well, the long an’ short of it was, Doc says they had Miss Nettie up onto the truck in no time an’ she played the parson’s favorite hymn, “Oh, Where Shall Rest Be Found?” and the truck man said it was his favorite too, not the one that played but the other one. An’ the parson and all the other folks around agreed the orgin was a dandy an’ they'd oughter keep it, s‘long as 1t was right there, an’ Doc says Miss Nettie an’ the parson stayed onto the truck with the orgin an’ druv up to the meetin’ house, to show the truck men where it was to sct, and Doc says he had to laugh when he seen ‘em goin’ up the road, he says Miss Nettie was so stuck on that orgin she kep’ right on playin’. Doc says when he was goin’ up home, after he git the mail, he scen the empty truck goin’ lickety-split towards the City an’ he says the truck man, not the one that played, but the one that said there wa'n't nothin’ the other one couldn't play, was slappin’ his knees an’ laughin’ fit to bust hisself, and the other one, the one that played, the one Doc says weighed so much, was drivin’ the truck an’ was whistling the tune Doc says the parson said he wa'n’t familiar with, ‘bout the Red Hot Mama. Beatrice Herford. A Neutral Corner SUPPOSE you've heard rumors that I'm engaged to Mabel.” “Yes. If it's true I congratulate you; if not I con- gratulate Mabel.” comicbooks.com