The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1928, Page 10

- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE i THE GUMPS—ALONE IN THE WORLD | DONT ie ADORE YHESE NEW tare a BEINGA CHIFFON HANDERCHIEFS= WISH, SOMEBODY MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR MARY— IVE’ ME ONE HEAVY HEARTED~ SHE SLINKS YO CARRY WIT EACH s INS= AWAX FROM YNE SURGING OF NER DARLIN THRONGS TO BROOD HE “THEY'RE DARLING FOR LITTLE] MONOGRAMED, TOO= OVER THE CHRISTMAS THAT. MIGHT CHESTER MAVE BEEN \ THINK A LITTLE BRIDGE SET WOULD BE NICE JO GIVE NO= 0 THI WE OUGHT YO GET SOMETHING PRACTICAL- THE EAGLE HAS DOUBLED BACK OVER MIS TRAIL — AND WE FIND HIM ONCE MORE ENROUTE To HE LONE STAR STATES THIS IS A DARLING LITTLE CLOISONNE VANITY FOR ROSEMARY = ee WHY CAN'T WE GET D Gi HER SOME NEW SUNBURN SHADE HOSE = NEA Service Writer an automobile age. ae i “Tye lived through a great period, Washington, Dee. 18—Rutherford | "OV. ang few men have been able B, Hayes was president of the United | {1° S8¥%) (anh tom mien nave. States when B. J. Cady got his job | a) as guide to show people through the} “I have watched people progress U.S. Capitol. ‘That was 50 years ago, | from ignorance and lack of informa- BY ALLENE SUMNER ey change to the good grooming of n on public questions to a keen, ‘There were only three guides then. | 40! Dl q They counted it a good day when there were a dozen people to show through the nation’s business house. | intelligent citizenry. The automobile and radio and all the speeding up of living have made the change. “Why, folks used to come here who WT oIS NOTIN HIS CODE To TAKE OTHERS INTO HIS CONFIDENCE - BUT OF ‘THIS Todey. aged 71, Captain B. J. Cady | didn’t know who the president of the does little actual guiding himself. He | United States was. You couldn't merely acts as “starter” for his 20/ blame them. They only got their guides, seeing that cach gets his or! newspapers once a week, and some- her share of the several thousand peo- | times not then if it was too muddy ple from the four ends of the earth | to get to the postoffice.” who come to see America’s Capitol! ‘Then Cady chuckled a little— every day. | “Not that they're any too smart And Captain Cady wouldn't swap |right now. Lots of them come here jobs with anybody else on earth! One | wanting to be shown the president's learns a livable, workable philosophy | suite of rooms or his private office in from rubbing shoulders with the | the Capitol. They think everything's great, he says. | here under one roof, and feel cheated He has learned that the truly great | if something's left out.” are humble and human—that the | oe. grouch and the critic and the unap-| He thinks that women seem to proachable one is not sure of him- | know a little more about the Capitol self and shrouds his own inferiority |than men do, “and ask more intelli- in a mantle of superiority. | gent questions, too.” ttle | Six of the 20 Capitol guides are “I've seen great men lying in state | girls. The 20 guides all learn a 40- on that little white star,” said Cap- | minute speech for the length of their tain Cady, pointing to the star in the | tour from the Capitol's cellar to at- WE MAY REST ASSURED, MAS AMPLE REASON FOR THIS COUP DE * ‘ MAIN Freckles and His Friends G'WAN= YOURS eapilt On Boy. A CONT Gor A WELL, THIS exact center of the Capitol where the | dead presidents lie in state. | “I've watched thousands of people streaming by with a tear for such men as McKinley, Harding, General Logan, the Unknown Soldier, and it's made me fecl that greatness and hu- manness always go hand in hand.” Twelve presidents have shaken his hand since that day in 1878 when he got his job, and he’s known the com- ing thirteenth for a long time. “Hoover's another human one,” he bays. He has seen the dozen tourists of | 50 years ago swell into a thousand. He has seen muddy boots and dusty coats of a dirt road, horse-and-buggy tic. Each guide takes an average party of 20. They may solicit their own business and keep the quarter a person, which is their only salary. But Captain Cady sees that each guide gets his share of general business which the tourist busses bring. He believes that the majority of visitors are more interested in seeing the Senate in session than anything else. Another thing—he bets that he's seen more honeymooners than any other living man, woman and child— “And they just waste their half dollar for the trip, because they DIME“! IT'S MINE = ITS don’t see a blooming thing!” he summarizes, a |_IN NEW YORK _IN NEW YORK | New York, Dec. 18—And now they would put the pushcarts from the streets of New York. i} It seems that they're unhygienic, dirty, interfere with traffic and bother the street cleaning depart-| ment. | Which, for all we know, may be true. But once the pushcarts arc| gone I, for one, don't care to visit the East Side very often. If push- carts are dirty it is equally true that) they are picturesque, colorful and even poetic. Yes, they're even sym- bolic of the ghetto. At this moment, the Department of Health is swinging into action and one of ihese days the | glamorous marts of the East Side} streets may be no more. | Orchard street is both king and| queen of the pushcart lanes of the| ghetto. | In Orchard street the peddlers) squabble for a half inch of space.| Their carts are piled high with all the rainbow’s hues. There are the fresh green vegetables and the reds, yellows and oranges of fruits; there are the myriad-tinted shawls and | the beggars’ market of Paris or the It seems a bit too bad that such color must go hand in hand with dirt —or what the Health Department prefers to call “filth.” But so it has ever been, whether in the bazars of Cairo, the native quarter of Algiers, pushcart belt of Orchard street. Hester street is the pushcart street of tradition, Orchard street may be the hub, but Hester street has the history, the antiquity and even the reputation. Hester street is a name familiar around the world. It boasted a street market back in 1886 when some shrewd peddler backed hi: ci against the curb and set up bi Today Hester street is all bi doned. Only a few stragglers may be found there today. Grand street specializes in push- cart jewelry, silk stockings and under- garments. Upper Park avenue has suddenly been invaded by vegetable and fruit traders. Lower Delancey street has the fishcarts. But the most picturesque of all is the little section in and around the Market Slip, near East River. Here the city’s barter finds its most. primitive beginnings. Anyone with a baby buggy—and who hasn't a baby OH YES, NO. YES. OF COURSE . TLL CALL YOU LATER ABOUT AT.NES - NO, GooD-BYE + OF COURSE (1'S NONE OF MY BUSINESS, BUT THAT'S. You iF You'te THE, FIFTH PHONE CALL PROMISE “NOT YOUVE HAD “TODAN. THERES } To BREATHE A SOMETHING STRANGE GOING / WORD To MoM ON . EVERY ONE OF THEM ABOUT IT. HUNG UP THE MINUTE THEY FOUND THAT You WERE QUT. NOW WHAT'S “This ALL ABOUT 2 SH-SH! TLL TeLL THE MOMENT WHO HANG UP NU TMEY FIND PoP IS dresses and shirts; there are the little} buggy on the East Side?—can set up hills of cheap neckties; the battered | business. Anyone with a baby bugey collection of toys and dolls; there are | and a few shoe strings can start right the cries of the peddlers and the mur-| in from the very bottom. Around the mur of the thousands of traders who} Market Slip the merchants haven't clutter the streets; there is the paw-| reached a degree of prosperity that OUT. HAS MOM'S e MOTHER BURNING UP WITH CURIOSITY = ing and haggling and the sound of bargaining; there are tlie peoples of} the earth in native costume; there are dirty children and clean children ! ‘and women with bright shawls and ragged shawls, women with market baskets and women with bundles, It is all a grand and thrilling clutter of humanity, such as can be found only in Manhattan's East Side. affords a pushcart. Each morning they fill the family baby buggy with frying pans and what not and start for their places of business, They tell me that there is one old fellow, with snow-white beard, who hasn't even got a baby buggy, and rents one for five cents a day. GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) IMMIGRANT GIRL HAS REPERTOIRE UNSURPASSED Languages, Religion, Sports, Music, Sketching, Writ- * ing on List San Francisco, Dec. 18—(NEA)— Back in 1914, a little Dutch girl nine years old slipped into her Sunday ‘wooden shoes, pulled her best bonnet, over her head and started out with her mother from Schiedam, Hollond, her birthplace, for a trip around the world, When they reached San Francisco to visit relatives who had strayed away from the colorful through Belgium. So they decided to stay in Califor- nia to avoid the unpleasant exper- ience of being blown into the water some lurking German submarine. ‘The little girl was Joziena Van der » now 23 years old, known to itless thousands of radio fans as the most versatile entertainers staff of the National Broad- LITTLE JOE | HE, STRONGEST WORDS ARE USUALLY USED IN We WEAKEST sm ARGUMENT. VERSATILE; casting Company's San Francisco division. Quite Accomplished! To those who know her only! through her entertainments, the fol- lowing facts may prove interesting: She thinks she should know more about languages. as she speaks only English, Dutch, French and Spanish, Won a scholarship at Mills College and studied there two years, Played in the 1926 National Tennis Tournament for women at Forest Hills, L, I. Sings “blues,” speaks lines in radio Plays and sits in with the ‘cello when the Arion Trio performs on the air. Makes a hobby of sketching, and ha made drawings of many broad- casters as well as some of the lead- ing movie stars, She swims, is an enthusiastic foot- ball fan, but believes that ice hockey is the most thrilling as well as the fastest game in the world. Has written several scenarios which have been accepted by Hollywood Producers, and is now writing a book on religion. ¥ Won another Scholarship in music at Damrosch Censervatory in New York for her excellent record at Mills College. BUSINESS IS GOIN’ \ aw,cHEER UP! PRETTY Fain TOA, ) MEBBE ITLL Sam— euTNoTas/ GE GETTER . | GOOD AS USUAL — WHET WE NEED IS A NICE SNOW STORM-TA SPREAD TH’ SHOPPING SPIRIT AN! BRING TH’ CROWDS IN — GUT I'LLIBET @ square Med WEL STAY CLEAR ALL DAY — all in getting accus- ‘and avers that wood- en shoes are not as uncomfortable or ‘as clumsy as might be thought. Still Likes “Sabots” “They come in sizes of his daughter as shoes often do here | just as great hobby out of her home | «Ga nta Claus Trains’ 8s languages, writing, drawing or BOLE IN TL! Cornered |THEY ARE ALL CALLS | / NO} HONEST 2 FROM AUTOMOBILE PoP. SHELL SALESMEN-I'M BUNING }| JUST BE TICKLED MOM A NEW CAR FOR CHRISTMAS . JUST LOOK OUT DOORS, MR.cuz2zLEM! NOT OVER & HALE HOUR AGO You WERE HOPING FOR SNOW, AND Now THERE'S @ ~ REGULAR BLIZzzAaRO! FER GOS SAKEs! SAM WINS & Mea FROM Me! He sure, KNowWs HIS Weatuer | ONE AWT.” (“MOTHER $ FOREVER MORE - WHAT ON EARTH. (ie ALWeT? GLAD TA PLEASE GU22- BUT IT WAS @ HECK OF A SOB 5 TEPRIN' ALLTHIS PAPER UP!