Albuquerque Morning Journal

LETTS FIXIT.

Letts Fixit had a gasmocar that
gladly rode him near and far he'd
never known the thing to quake.
or sneeze
or
shudder, spit or
shake.

But all his friends believed it
nice to offer pointers and advice:
they told him how to run his boat
and how to fix the engine's throat.
One said he shifted
gears
too
much,
another criticized his clutch;
according to another lip, the
carburetor had the pip.

And thus it was that Letts got
mixed
and had his gasmobile fixed: he
had it taken all apart and doc-
tored
up from lung to heart.

But now a sorry tale is told-the
car is sicker than of old: it has
the
wheezes and the snorts-
while Letts
ignores his friends' reports.
-N. A. Lufburrow.
Copyright, 1920, by The McClure
Newspaper Syndicate.

At a Chinese wedding the "beg-
gar chief" is always invited. He
brings a plate and begs from all
the guests, but in return keeps all
other mendicants from the mar-
riage feasts. The beggar chief of
a big Chinese city makes as much
as $15,000 or $20,000 a year, and
out of this he pays the common or
street beggars to keep away from
social gatherings.