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One on the House

Flat broke at the end of their stay in New York City, Mrs. Feeley, Mrs. Rasmussen, and Miss Tinkham can only make it as far as New Jersey on their voyage back home. When they stop by a local bar for something to lift their spirits, they find it in disrepair and the owner in none too better shape himself. As desperate as they are to make it back to San Diego, it’s just not in their nature to leave the poor guy there. And if they’re going to lend a helping hand, they might as well tidy up, serve a few beers, and see about breathing a little life into the joint—not that it does any harm to have a place to stay until they can find a way to get to the West Coast.

Pull up a stool, crack open a cold one, and crack a smile with the third, uplifting and uproarious title from Mary Lasswell to feature her quick-witted altruists.

Mary Lasswell

Mary Lasswell was born in Glasgow in 1905 and raised in Texas. Many of her novels, which enjoyed immense popularity in the 1940s and 1950s, are set in the American Southwest. She is, perhaps, best-known for her series of humorous titles, beginning with Suds in Your Eye, that center around three altruistic, beer-loving elderly women who reside in the San Diego’s Noah’s Ark junkyard. The series features illustrations by George Price, known for his art in The New Yorker. In 1944, Jack Kirkland adapted Suds in Your Eye into a broadway play. In addition to her novels, Lasswell wrote editorials for the Houston Chronicle in the 1960s.
 

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