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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 404, 11 February 1913, Page 2

THE BOW-LEGGED MAN'S RETORT. John Drew,; the -actor, . at the ago of 59, looks no more than ooV - Complimented :on fchis feet, Mr .-Drew, sail: „ "I try to keep mohair on and iny stbmaeh' off — that is tho true secret of perennial youth." Then he told one of his famous Btories illustrative of the horrors of corpulence. "A fat man," he said, "could not help laughing one day- at the ludicrous appearance of a very bow-legged chap— one of those arch-looking, chaps, you knowi "Though a total stranger to him, the fat man slapped the bow-legged chap on the back, and said : "'By jingo, brother, you look as if you'd been riding a barrel.' "The bow-legged man smiled, and poked his forefinger deep into the fat man's oofs, loose stomach. "'And. you look as if you had been swallowing one.' " The driver of a New York motor hearse was fined £2 the other day for travelling through the streets at the rate of 30 miles an hour inside the city boundary. American hustle again.