Life — October 19, 1928 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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NEIGHBORHOOD INDIANA Is marriage ruinous t’ careers? Margaret Weymouth Jackson, 0” Spencer, Indianny, who is happily married, an’ th’ mother o° three chil- zen, Todsbards th® Saturday Evenin’ Post almost weekly with good short stuff, an’ is th’ author of “Beggars Can Choose,"’ published by th’ Bobbs-Merrill Company, an’ startin’ out fine. & I guess Indianny is still a little pro- yinial. Councilman Meredith Nicholson, author 0: “Th alier o* Tennessee,"’ blossomed out sith a nifty new walkin’ stick yesterday, an’ several of his friends asked him how he got hurt. #1 often wonder if when a great man sells his name t' a nickel cigar he reserves th’ right ( say what goes into it. ***Oh, mercy yes, I'm fer Hoover,” said awell known north side matron recently, an’ an equally famous north side matron replied, “You must be fond 0° washin’ beer bottles." ***Ever’ time I hear o° “tumultuous a lause,” an’ ‘*millin’ crowds,"’ I think o° ts I lost on Bryan, ***One time at a Bryan rally at Corydon, Indianny, an enthusiastic housewife passed her tuby o'er th’ heads o* th’ vast crowd tbe patted an’ kissed by th’ Peerless Nebraskan, an’ # wuz two weeks before she got it back. Crowds don't mean nothin’ unless you're a pickpocket. **Th’ late James G. Blaine wuz another sateman that didn't worry about germs. He Kised twenty-one babies in Lafayette durin’ a sop 0° nine minutes. &% People want t’ see Smith an’ they want t' sce Hoover, whether there Methodists, Catholics, or tired 0° makin’ beer or waitin’ on wine, or dry, or what not. I don't know that ey ‘particularly want t’ hear ‘em, Sometimes Ye ‘ll sit out an amateur performance o* “William Tell.” ***Women are funny things. Mrs. Em. Pash has come out barelegged fer Hoover ‘cause Smith says *‘foist’’ fer first, an’ ‘‘idear’’ fer idea, ***Huntin’ wild, or fox, grapes, which have a much higher voltage than domestic grapes, is ali'th’ rage in these parts. Kin Hubbard (Abe Martin). SPOKANE Tutre have been no tornadoes or hurri- azes in this part of the country, but, what with all the campaign spellbinding, you could hardly call it a dead calm. & Arthur Prague, who was defeated for constable in the Republican primaries, says he will support the ticket just the same. ***Guy Toombes has been following with keen interest all reports of Gene Tunney’s walk- ing tour in Europe. Guy and Gene took a walk- ing tour of their own when the erstwhile champion was in our midst, and there are those who say Mr, Tunney had to extend himself to get a draw. ***Several Spokancites are in the new edition of **Who's Who,"* and are already reap- ing the benefits of same in the shape of letters offering attractive investment opportunities. ***Ren H. Rice, the hustling cereal manufacturer, regaled your corr. the other day with a humorous anecdote which was more or less unique in that it was not about a Scotchman. « A roorback was seen in the woods north of here. Stoddard King. CLEVELAND “Carte” Ryan, talented and genial sec’y of the City Club, has written a campaign song entitled ‘Little Brown Derby, How 1 Love Thee."* A certain party is said to be negotiating for rights to the same. **°The College of Commerce of the Y. M. C, A. school of technology has established a course in “Constructive Thinking.” It is thought that this is the first college that ever thought of teaching anything like that. & Our well known and liked traveler, Paul Travis, is back from Africa again, bringing a goodly store of implements, weapons, musical instruments and other savage curiosities, etc. He tells a great story about he having fallen into an antelope trap with poison stakes at the bot- tom, the effects of which he escaped because he had heavy boots on, but we all know Paul. ***Miss Betty Teter, Cleveland's youngest poctess and daughter of Doc Teter and Mrs. Doc Teter, has started in to college this fall. She is the authoress of a book of poctry called, we understand, ‘The Tapestry,’ and those who have read it predict a great career for her if she should choose to take up that business as her life work. m& This burg has some pretty slick lawyers but none are more so than Attorney Clark McConnell who was on the side of the bus company in a case in our court house the other day where a lady claimed she was hurt bad in an accident and wanted $25,000 damages. Lawyer McConnell out with a movie film right there in court showing the lady swimming, diving and playing “‘leap frog’ soon after the dent,’ and a settlement at a much smaller sum was made, it is rumored. ***Football is now the order of the day among our college boys and the Western Reserve “eleven"® expect to win more games this year on account of them having a new practicing field. Ted Robinson. NEWS BOSTON Tue Army gridiron team plays Harvard tomorrow. In the morning 1500 West Point cadets will parade on Boston Common, Mayor Nichols having given them permission’ to dis- regard the keep-off-the-grass signs. 1% Speaking of football, John Coolidge, who is working in New Haven, may have a hard time getting a ticket to the Harvard-Yale game next month on acct. of only being an Amherst graduate, ***Several local young ladies have this week started life careers of paying installments on fur coats. rank Goodwin, who was nosed out of the gubernatorial nomination by a rhinoceros's nose, will not bolt the G. O. P. ticket. Frank believes in mastication, ***Tom Feeney of the N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co., informs us they can hardly keep up with the demand for French telephones. This new-fangled contraption enables a subscriber to have the hives, eczema, ivy poisoning, etc., while using the phone at the same time. &—* Nowadays you can buy cider at every roadside stand. It will be harder later on, *°°Dr. Cadman this week answered a uestion that has been bothering a local citizen for some time. The Dr. toid him to do the right thing. Neal O'Hara, CHICAGO Art the mail carriers’ banquet in I. O. O. F. Hall last night three rousing rasp- berries were given for the Scotchman who in- vented Christmas cards. &* Wallace Rice, poct and grammarian, is trying to get even with The Tavern for makin; him an honorary member by presenting the clul with a clock. As we go to press the rejection committee is slighty in favor of Bill Wrigley’s tower, whose chrnsometer is Visible dll endnighe, after which no Tavern member seems to care what o'clock it is. When interviewed by ye ed., Wallie broke his long silence and said, ‘‘Only time will tell."* They are burning raked leaves at the curbstones, than which nothing is sweeter to ye scribe’s nose for news and other things when a smart breeze blows from the stockyards, This space reserved for the opening of THE SHEDD AQUARIUM. & We are naming no names, but the way some women toot their autos along our boulevards when we are trying to get our morn- comicbooks.com