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Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Gee McGee, Copyright, 1088. How to Tell What Your NeiKhbor Had for Breakfast, 1,. .If you notice a few egg splotches on hj* veot, why, er-er, let me sec, he must have had egga for breakfast unless of course, ho likes mayonnaise at his morning meal: it could be mayonnaise splotches. '' ?-? gr 2...If he sneezes on the way to his office, ami a drove of sparrows make a dive for the neighborhood of the said sneeze, he is it drytoast victim. Lots of women don't know any better (yet) than to feed their husbands on that kind of stutf. .'{...If he has dust or shavings all over hiifc lap, he's surely been eat fag cornflakes or bran or some so-called t breakfast food. It ffi possible to decide more definitely as to which ceroid * he has had to enjoy for the recent repast if you'll notic^f his whiskers closely, that is, if he has any whis '' ^ kors. ^ 4..If he has brown .spots on his jaws and chin, you can put it down that those fc-pots were caused hy dipping or sousing his toast in his coffee. A great many semi-toothless gentlemen can't handle toast in any other manner. It softens it by this process, but it leaks and splashes , 'slightly while \>eing devoured hur? ' riedly. 5...If he is seen picking his teeth with his pocket knife or screwdriver,, ho's gtfilty of trying to eat some steak he bought because it was cheap. Steak gravy makes black or very dark places on his vest, shirt, or trousers, so, if in doubt as to whether or not he has had steak, the gravy spots will help you to identify his meal. G.. .If he has a wife who enjoys bridge more than she enjoys homemaking, you can tell that he has light-bread- and butter for breakfast if you observe some soft crumbs adhering to his lips or nose. It is hard to find a napkin to wipe litter ofT one's mouth while your wife is in bed sleeping late, as usual, and the cook aint coming. (I sincerely hope these few suggestions will be helpful to all neighbors and it will save you from( trying what the other crowd is cooking for breakfast, which certainly aint country ham these hard times.) Mike Demands Ahead. Ilat rock. s. ('. decern 8, 1D32. the farmers loaned & savvings hank. city, deer sirs: i am riting to%a>k you to please cancel my note at yore bank, as i can't pay it and ?kcep my car running and my 2 boys and 3 girls in colledge and finnish payment for my radio and pianner. i declared a morytorium on it last year, but i am in worser fix this year than last. . . .ohner count of i had to trade in autos. I think it is nothing but- right to cancel my dett at your bank, as it was your duty to hepp me make a crop in ID and 30, and as it did not fetch enough to pay my home oblergation-s, it is yore loss, you don't seem to reckernize my morytorium which I put on at the same time" mr. hoover gave one to franee, great britain, england, germanny, and Europe; You keep on wasting postage on me. my familey needs shoes and clothes and you have put such a high tariff on yoremonney that i can not afford to try to borry any more and you ailso charge us customers c'2 for ever check we rite, but we have quit ritin checks, as we have no monney to rite them against, if you will cancel my notes, this will give me a big chance to do some more business with you. i nm verry much like poor little belgium which wa? over-run by the itlay-ans and germans and rushians: , i can not pay even the intrust on what i owe you, mutch less all of same, when you cancel my dctts and cut yore intrust rates to 3 percent and lorn me some more monney on my plain not of hand, then i will have ea.sh to spend with the merchants who w?t! rr-depo?TTtt :t hack m yore hank, so you won't miss it hut a few days, and then it will be yore money again. rite or foam nu- at once if i may depend or. cancellation, i do not need a morytorium from you. as I can handle that part of the bizness myself. l worked hard the year i lost ..yore monney, and you can't blame me as i done my part, ft diddent rain verry mutch and the gov\ ernme.nl let the bugs and weevils eat up everything i raised, i feel sure that you will consider it yore duty to cancel everything, as i have been yore alley for a large number of years. yorestrulie, mike Clark, rfd. ex-farmer. Senator Would | Behead Bankers (ireenvilie, Doc. tt.---*Bank officials or Employes \yho appropriate the institution's money to their own use should have their heads chopped off," says Greenville county's state Senator, C? E. (Mountain Lion) Sloan. 1). Gordon Baker, Florence member of a committee making a study of. state banking luws, had written Sloan along with other members of the gen eral assembly, asking their views on changes in banking law*. "I am heartily in favor of legislation that will give protection to depositors," wrote Sloan today. "I would favor bonding all bank officials and those emplayes who handle funds in the amount of $100,000 each, and then if they defaulted, 1 would favor cutting off their heads." . W. T, >Blecher, of Warrtffi?biir#^ Mo., choked to death when he swallowed the upper plate of his false teeth. . . . SANTA CLAUS LETTERS Dear Santa Claus: 1 am a little girl 7 years old. 1 am riot going to auk for much this time. I wanjt;you to please bring me a doll carnage and a small do)T and lots of fruit. Good by Santa, Louisa Catoe. ^ Dear Santa Claus/"' ft jfm a bqy 8 years ol<l and in grade at schjpl. 1 wanj, >p>iOt<r please bring mo a coaster. *Wgog\$t}d a fdot ball, fruit. ^ V Good by Santa, Paul Catoe. . 1 1 . ?A 'Camden, S. C., Deo. 14 Dear Santa Claus: Please will you bring me a bicycle and a doll with clothes, and a tea set. Frances West. Dear, Santa Claus: I am a girl 6 years old and I want you to bring me a pair of gloves and doll baby and clothes with fruit. Cood by Santa, Mary Elizabeth Drakeford. Cassatt, S. C., Dec. 12 Dear iSanta: I'm sure^you are just about"ready to begin your journey to*the South. Please don't forget me on your visit. I am a little girl and' I go to Pleasant Grove school. I try to study hard ho you will ?ome to see me. 1 want you to bring me a sleeping doll, doll carriage, doll bed, lots of fruit and candy. Kemember all of my schoolmate* for they have been very good too. 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