Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . hen—only pants. And whenthey wore em creased the kids usta holler Hand-me-down!When a young feller graduated from roughneck societyand broke out as a dude, hed slip into a paper collar andvisit Bartemiers clothin store and get measured for sportythree-dollar black jeans pants with twenty-two inch bell-bottoms. They fit his legs as tight as blony sausage and hehadta use a shoe-horn to slide into em. Then hed put uphis best front and spiel a song-and-dance to Jules Guillyo, the old frog shoemaker, and hookhim for a pair of made-to-ord
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . hen—only pants. And whenthey wore em creased the kids usta holler Hand-me-down!When a young feller graduated from roughneck societyand broke out as a dude, hed slip into a paper collar andvisit Bartemiers clothin store and get measured for sportythree-dollar black jeans pants with twenty-two inch bell-bottoms. They fit his legs as tight as blony sausage and hehadta use a shoe-horn to slide into em. Then hed put uphis best front and spiel a song-and-dance to Jules Guillyo, the old frog shoemaker, and hookhim for a pair of made-to-orderhigh-heel low-quarter shoes, agree-in to come through with the coinon payday night. Isaac Rothschildwas the next mark to get nicked—for the red socks and the red neck-tie. Then Ed Ryan would get thehurryup for the lid, one of themlowbridge potboiler kellys that bal-anced on his ears, the kind that yidcomedians is still using in , bein all set, this ladykillin proposition wouldparade Second street on Sunday afternoon to give free eye 79. THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS entertainment to the dames that wore bustles, opera hats,and bangs, and was steerin for Shuler tintype gallery tohave their pichers took. Ever know, sport, who was the first guy to use poetryin his newspaper ads? Why, when Ed Ryan operated hishat joint at Second and Main, he had a ten-foot plughat abovethe door for a comeon for ginks that was lookin to beproperly crowned, and Ed usta run ads in The Democrattellin these blobs what was screwy about their makeup andhow theyd been bumped by other hat guys with the wrongsteer, and he doped it that when they was out for class inbean covers to visit Ryan the hatter—Thats w^hats the matter. And from that innocent beginnin, sport, has sprung upthe big herd of ad writers that uses poetry in these days toknock business. In them times Hirschl Debattie soldstogie twofers that you could inhale withoutslappin a piaster on the back of your you get sack
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