The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 22, 1931, Page 4

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(Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, LEVINGS & BREWER (neorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON The Disappointed Bears America set a fine example for the rest of the world Monday when it refused to be shocked by English abandonment of the gold standard of exchange and maintained the prices of securities in the New York mar- ket. To understand the significance of this fact it must be remembered that Great Britain has been, for centur- jes, the leading banking nation of the world. In recent years America has superseded it somewhat but England is at least second by a wide margin. Just as the sun never sets on the British empire neither does’ \t ever set on English investments. Another factor is that the gold standard has been made something of a fetish in the world’s financial circles, Numerous agitations have been made against it in nearly every nation, but it is regarded by finan- ciers as the only sound medium of exchange. The last real fight against the gold standard in this country occurred in 1896 when the late Will- jam Jennings Bryan campaigned for the presidency on a free-silver plat- form. 4 The trouble with the gold standard in England, as explained by the As- sociated Press, is that banks have found it profitable to acquire pound notes at less than their face value, turn them into gold in England and then export the gold. It was all very simple and the whole thing was based on lack of confidence in the stability of England's medium of ex- change, long the standard for the world. Suspension of the gold stand- ard enables England to refuse to give her gold for her bank notes and eliminates the banking “squeeze play” in which the nation found it- self. Whatever may be said for the ethics of world financial circles in putting John Bull in the hole, Brit- ain had a remedy of last resort which it has adopted. The “squeeze” in so far as it concerns gold, is over. The English just won't play any more under the present rules. The action of the New York stock market in absorbing a huge sale of Stocks, despite the apparently dis- couraging news, is heartening. It probably is true that the same men who bought stocks Monday were among those who had helped to) hammer down the price of the pound, sterling, for all is fair in finance as' in love and war and what matter if the financial balance of the world was being upset if they could make @ profit? The same thing probably holds true in even greater measure for the French financiers who have hever been known to let patriotism. even for their own country, fhterfere with their vision with regard to the main chance. A leading factor, perhaps, in the strength of the New York market was ‘the ruling of the stock exchange directors against short-selling. This decision was obviously directed at the huge bear influence which has beaten down the market in recent months and which, doubtless, was prepared to reap a huge harvest by causing a demoralization to which the debacle of October, 1929, and the famous Black Friday of 1863 might have been only a marker. It would have been a heartless and con- sclenceless thing to do but there seems little doubt that the attempt would have been made had not the Dpportunity been barred. As it was, all of the stocks sold i days, the bear traders are go: to find themselves “over a bar: if A 4 g E i they do, it is to be hoped THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1931 > leads one to hope that the rallying ery of our business patriots, “Don’t sell America short,” again will be heard in the land in the near fu- ture. On Top of the Heap “It's an ill wind that blows no good” —is an old axiom, but appare ently as true today as ever. Whoever would have thought we should be rejoicing over any phase of this depression business? Yet, that is exactly what Dr. Harold J. Knapp, health commissioner of Cleve- land, is doing; because he finds in 201 that city considerable decline in dis- o| ease, with the general health of the people there greatly improved. His theory is that people eat less in times like these, that their diet contains fewer luxuries and that health is im- proved by plain food. Carefully planned meals cost less 50! money. The less one spends for food the more important milk becomes. Milk is all food, no waste. The least amounts of food which can be used with safety are—Every Meal: milk for the children, bread and butter for all; Every Day: cereal, potatoes, green or yellow vegetables, fruit, to- matoes or oranges for children; Two) to Four Times a Week: Tomatoes for all, dried beans, peas or peanuts, eggs —especially for children—lean meat, fish, poultry, cheese. Amounts to suit the size of family. Simple, plain foods these—but they offer protection and bring health at a@ cost in keeping with a decreased food allowance. * In an effort to aid housewives to make curtailed incomes cover neces- Sary expenditures, the federal de- partment of commerce Has been {s- suing food guides emphasizing what: is necessary to health and what may be classed as dietary luxuries. The recommendations given are those which the government has adopted. Women who care to do s0 can write to the department of commerce for further information, including recipes for preparing inexpensive foods in a tasty manner. The Cost of Crime In its report on “The Cost of Crime” the Wickersham commissfon states that America’s crime bill is well in excess of $1,207,000,000 a year. The average per capita cost of crime in 300 cities which were surveyed, was $5.47. The lowest rate recorded—in Galesburg, Illinols—was 92 cents. The highest—in Jersey City—was $11.30 a year for each citizen. These facts should make the public wonder if the pleasure of passing new “re- form” laws is worth what they cost, not only in actual money, but in se- curity, freedom and @ stable society. As an economy measure the com- mission recommends a weeding out. of laws, to eliminate unnecessary and: expensive social restrictions. Thefe is nothing new in this, but it is well to bring it once more to public atten- tion. If there is one cause responsi- 'ble for the prevalence of crime, its} cost, and the failure of law enforce- ment, it is the tremendous bulk of unnecessary laws on our statute books. The averagé citizen needs few laws| to deter him from murder, house- breaking, kidnaping, blackmail and’ other age-old crimes, while a million laws, in themselves, will not stop the criminal from pursuing these same vocations and using a gun or a black- Jack or any other murderous weapon, which he will secure, law or no law. In these days we hear a good deal about returning to old and time-tried methods of business procedure. One cannot escape the thought that wo might do well to follow suit in con- sidering modern social problenis. Too bad Mayor “Jimmy” Walker missed meeting Gandhi. The per- fectly groomed mayor of New York posing with the Mahatma would present a satorial contrast pleasing to the camera fiends. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors, They are published without rd to whether they ag with The Tribun or disagree policies. Walls of Silence (New York World-Telegram) raised there recently. for coffee, nounced the deal. ignorant of the negotiations. Last Thursday Chairman James C. German deal. tember 11. neither deny nor confirm the deal. -{in government business, LONG TIME IN MOURING The Federal Farm Board might be the first target for Washington news- paper correspondents who are trying to break down for the public the of- ficial “wall of silence” that has been The board traded wheat to Brazil and the story finally leaked out in Brazil. The board sold wheat to China for the flood suf- ferers, but the public was kept ig- norant until President Hoover “scooped” his own board and an- Then the sale of wheat to Ger- many by the board was reported in Germany and brought here by the cables. The board was surprisingly Stone refused to confirm or deny the Last Friday the board issied a mimeographed statement saying the German deal had been consummated. It said the “agreement was entered into as of September 5,” that it was signed by the Grain Stabilization Corp. a Farm Board agency, Sep- tember 7, and by the Germans Sep- Yet three days after the Stabiliza- tion Corp. signed, Mr. Stone could Business secrets have their place, we suppose. But they have no place which 1s conducted—and in this instance at ® great loss—with the people’s money. The women of Crkvenica, Jugo- slavia, have worn black in’ mourning ever since the Frankopan family of petty rulers was driven from the dis- situation, | trict more then 500 years ago. On Igel’s 1914, York, be from John Devoy, Supreme Justice Daniel E. Cohalan of New FIND SECRET MESSAGE Sept. 22, 1917, the government announced that it had found among cipher documents seized at Wolf von office in New York, in August, secret messages purporting to and other Irish-Americans, addressed to the kaiser’s higher of- BEGIN HERE TODAY Pretty NO! RENT, cin aeegnery eee TRAVERS, aon ef Bi ire real RS, vy me Slick "Eee Ghreate to 'sintakere irk, Ma The, story opens. in Maribere, middle Mark sell western 15 Ris ox ‘Their m te soon gone, ¥ due to ar couple ficials and urging Germany to cause @ revolution in Ireland. Cohalan is- sued a denial. In the message in question the writer said that an Irish revolution could only be successful if helped by , and that it should be started by aerial attacks on Eng- writer also suggested that troops, arms and ammunition be landed in Ireland, to enable the Irish to close their ports to England, and to establish submarine stations along Sah ise I Lid eal supply from Engli He concluded with, “The services of the revolution may therefore de- ite deal- His. gam! . With from Stone the to riboro. cide the war.” show Natalie Price and those others how little she cared for what they said or did? What could she do to let them know that if she wore cheap clothing it was their thoughts that were cheap, their ill- manners and discourtesy that were ugly? eee T= street signal flashed red but Norma was so preoccupied she did not notice it for several mo- ments. Then she realized the others about her had gone on. She crossed the street hurriedly. She forget her morning’s errands and walked a block past the five- and-ten store where she was to be- gin her purchases. .“What right has Natalie Price to set herself up as | ‘It CAN Be Done! | BARBS | Sing Sing’s football team is out for practice and already the backfield is doping out how to get the guards. ee & Of course the Ouimets of Boston had beans ready for the bacon Fran- cls carried back home. * % & It’s hard to be @ bull or bear on Wall Street and a social lion at the same time, ee oy oo sage. More United States fruits are be- ing exported to Europe, says Travers’ real estate holdings and + item. So they. won't mind getting the razzberry, we hear. * # # Simile: Takes as much time to read 98 the ie erg column, * Lowell Bayles, the coal miner who became the speed king of the sky, is one who probably had some foun- eee for building his castles in the ir. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) New York, Sept. 22—Did you know that “Silver Threads Among the Gold” grew out of an obscure clip- ping in a farm magazine? And that a Daily Health Service | TONICS, PEP PANACEAS INCAPABLE OF OVERCOMING BODY FATIGUE Man’s Endurance Is Governed by Oxygen Intake By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association Physiologists who have studied the problem of fatigue have made a sig- nificant - contribution the means for overcoming it. What the worker wants to do is to-get as much done in a given time as possible, and at the same time to get it done with the least expenditure of energy. The using up of energy leads to fatigue, and continued fatigue, as has been pointed out, means ill health, inef- ficiency and discontent. All of panaceas for pep, punch and vitality have been of- fered with the claim that they over- come fatigue or prevent its develop- ment. Actually there is little or nothing that can be taken out of a “Bred in Old Kentucky” was sug- gested by a horse trade in Central Park in ye olden days? That the historic Floradora sextet started out to be a duet written by a church organist? Well, neither did I until just the other day when Jim Geller started telling me the “low down” on the famous old ditties that have lived to a ripe old age. James J. Geller,| theatrical advance man of the old school and Manhattan newspaper- man for a generation, has been spending his odd time tracking down the stories behind the best known songs. Recently he collected his reminiscences and put them in a book titled, “Famous Songs and Their Stories.” “The Man Who. Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo,” for instance, was based on the legend that one Ar- thur Bower actually had achieved that rare distinction. He was a reck- less and lavish spender and a care- less gambler, and tales of his ex- ploits fired the imagination of Fred Gilbert, an English song writer. Lon- don gave it but ordinary welcome, but an American team—Hoey and Evans—used it in one of the old Charley Hoyt comedies and the American nation picked it up. Just a few years ago, there came a news story fromm London telling of the death of Arthur De Courcey Bower, the inspiration of the ven- erable tune. Bower had died pen- niless and the tale went that some early day press agent had engaged him to go about Europe, tossing money about and boasting of his Monte Carlo winnings. The purpose, of course, being to lure gamblers to the roulette wheels. “Silver Threads” was used first as BROOKMAN v VAURA'LOU “" SUAAD MARIVAGES fully. “Getting to be a steady cus- F. M. Travers’ annual dividends. | tomer, aren’t you?” He climbed on At 55 Johnson was in charge of the department to which Mark had so casually and briefly lent his ser- vices the few months he had been in his father’s employ. Traditional homage to all per- sons and things associated with the name Travers colored George John- son’s yoice. “Oh, we're getting on about as usual,” he answered Mark's ques- tion. “Never very much change, you know. Yes, indeed, we miss you.” The big boy in the white coat across the counter paused signifi- cantly —almost beligerently — in. front of Johnson. “Whassa orde! he demanded in a voice with a a judge of other people?” Norma raged inwardly. “What has she ever done to make herself better than anyone else?” She knew without need to hest- tate the answers to those questions. Natalie's father was rich. Natalie was “in society,” her name and pic- avead a ing Day tures in newspaper ‘society columns Pegg RS <a 5 2 'ta. | frequently. But those were not the millar le her, things that mattered. What gave NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXVII HE two girls had almost reached Norma. One of them was talk- ing eagerly. It was the shrill, high- Pitched voice that caught her tention. Where had she heard that voice before? Norma glanced from one face to the other. The taller girl, the one whose voice seemed familiar, wore & green suit with luxurious collar and trimming bands of dark fur. Her companion was in brown. An- other instant and they were beside her. The girl in green looked rectly at Norma. A fleeting change of expression crossed her face. that instant Norma recognized Natalie Price. their subtle bint of aloomess. Norma, startled, said, “How you do?” The girls passed. Norma stood at the edge of the sidewalk, about to step down when the traffic light flashed from red to green. She heard Natalie Price's quick, high- pitched voice floating backward. “That, my dear, was Mark Travers’ wife!” She heard the other gir!’s incredulous, “No—but, Nat, such funny clothes!” The rest of the words were lost. Six words spoken by a stranger— why should Norma feel those six ‘words were to scorch their way into her brain and remain forever? Six But it wasn't the words that brought quick, hot circles to Norma’s cheeks, It was the way they were spoken. As though-for Norma to be Merk Travers’ wife was something beyond belief. How dare they sneer at her “funny clothes”? Because she was trying to help Mark to save his money— words! was that something for these who had everything to laugh at? “Funny clothes!” Her coat and They were plain and cheap and the sort that hundreds of girls who worked in downtown offices wore. Norma was hat were not funny! suddenly bitterly angry. Her 6 —how do you do!” Natalie's dropped to a cooing sweet- ness. Her derk brows arched with Natalie Price her tremendous ad- vantage was the fact she belonged to the life Mark had always known before his marriage. If Natalie speered at Mark's bride it meant others would do so. ‘Was she so pitifully a failure? ‘Was hindrance to Mark? “But he married me!” Norma told herself defensively. “He knew Natalie first and instead he mar- tied me.”. The mood burned only a little less flercely when later she stood ate Johnson hesitated. “Let me see—" He studied’ the menu chalked on the mirror-li wall. “A fried egg sandwich,” he an- nounced. “And coffee. No cream, Please. And apple pie!” ‘The order given, he turned again to Mark. “You know, I’m really glad to see you,” he repeated. “We've missed you. I read—er, about your marriage. Of course I wish you and Mrs. Travers every happiness.” “Thanks, Guess I haven't really been missed around the office, there.” “But you'd been with us such a short time. You were getting the thing very well—doing splendid- ly—” 2Mark was not interested. He in- “Tell me, how's Dad at a counter piled high with dishes and selected a blue-flowered saucer to take the place of the she had brokena Lucky to find the same pat- tern in stock. Well, the oil cloth was next on the list. | Norma moved ‘across the store. She was buying five and 10-cent supplies for Mark’s kitchen while Natalie Price and her friend might be trying on gowns that cost hun- dreds of dollars, fur coats worth fabulous sums. . eee dt In do Ma the newcomer leaned his el- bows on the lunch counter. “Why—Johnson! I'm a blue nosed baboon if it isn’t the old boy himself! How're you, Johnson?” The newcomer drew back and thrast out a hand in greeting. “Glad to see you, Mark,” he said heartily, “This is .a surprise! Didn’t recognize you when I came in. I—I’m very well, thank you. Looking first-rate yourself!” Mark laughed. “Sure, I'm 0. K. Tell me, Johnson, how's the old place bobbing along? Miss me down there?” ‘They were sitting at a drug store lunch counter. A_half-consumed sandwich lay on the plate before Mark. He raised a heavy porcelain cup to his lips. The man beside him was middle-aged. He wore a gray hat and dark overcoat. Be- neath the rim of the hat the close- clipped hair showed a grayish tinge. Johnson had the manner of 8 quiet, efficient man who has spent most of his life executing other men’s orders. He had done that. Johnson for 15 years had been a ris gloved hands dug into hér coat|reliable cog in the smoothly oper- Dockets. Oh, what could she do to] ating mechanism building up F. M. ““Oh,. he’s well. About as he al- ‘ways is, I should say.” ““Glad to hear it. You probably know a certain unpopularity rests about his one and only son—" - “Oh, I'm sorry! To tell the truth T had heard a little something of the sort. But it will clear away, TRAVERS looked up as|*foss the counter, Tm sure. It will clear away in just 8 little time.” ‘Mark's eyes hed suddenly rested on the clock across the room. He was on his feet, reached in his Docket and shoved some coins “Got to beat it!” he exclaimed. “Got to be back at 1:15. See you again soon, Johnson. S'long!” Before “his companion could frame a reply the outer door swung shut on Mark's departing back. A girl in a red coat climbed on the seat the young man had vacated. Johnson looked futilely over one shoulder, readjusted his spectacles and attacked the wedge of pie. eee T night Mark spoke to Norma about meeting his former asso- ciate. “Funny old duck,” he de- scribed Johnson. “Good-hearted, though.” Mark was wondering rather vaguely just why he had been so pleased to see the older man. It had also occurred to Mark, as it had not previously, that it was strange for Johnson to lunch in a place so far removed from the real estate company’s headquarters. Oh, well—he probably liked to get away from the place occasionally. It was the third day afterward that Mark, entering the drug store lunch room, heard his name called.|in his desk chair. He glanced about. There on the third chair from the end of the Tow sat Johnson. “Hello!” Mark sang beck cheer- because—” send you to tell me something?” »| task was uncomfortable. He nodded affirmatively as he said, “He wants pa to see you, Mark. He asked me to paeet aenly tell you that.” he sent you to say that?” wants to see you about an impor- tant matter, What that may be I wasn’t informed. I judged, though, that it might be about business. He—he seemed very anxious about this matter.” level, is it?” better than to doubt me. You know I wouldn’t interfere in your private though. Little enough I ever did spalre nor those of your father. time to go down there.” suit Mr. Travers. If you could stop at the office when you've finished this afternoon he'll be waiting for you.’ Might be after that.” at that time! He'll be pleased. I'll tell him to expect you at 5:30—" delighted that his mission had been @ success. Before Mark could inter- rupt the man was gone. The food Johnson had ordered remained un- touched on the counter. tion indeed! away assuming Mark was commit- ting himself when in actuality he had done nothing of the sort. “I don’t have to go,” Mark told him- self. “I don’t have to go just be- cause Johnson thinks I will. Now, what in the wofld is Dad up to? Does he really mean it, I wonder?” of F. M. Trav to expect. Yet his father had sent for him, There was consolation in that thought. If would be because hi made the first move toward recon- ciliation. triumph! afterthought, probably get Hades!” still unsettled. He thought of it re- Deatedly throughout the afternoon. At 5:45 he was standing in his father’s luxuriously carpeted pri- vate office, “that you'll do all that? You really mean it?” and more! I’m only asking you to meet my. terms and here they the nearest seat. “I was hoping to find you here,” George Johnson said earnestly. T've something to tell you, Surprise in the ‘8 voice. “Well, let's @ message from your fa ther.”” “What's he got to say? Why doesn’t he say it himself?” “He asked me—that is, I came. “Look here! Did my father really Johnson gulped as though his “Wants to see me? You mean “He asked me to tell you he “Listen, Johnson, this is on the “Oh, absolutely! You know me mm i carrying out instructions, “But I've got a job. I don't have “Any time you set I’m sure will “I couldn't make it until 5:30, “Then I'll tell him you'll be there Johnson had risen. He seemed ‘Mark frowned, Here was a situa Johnson had rushed Complete su: mnder on the part Seemed too much went it father had That was indeed a “And if I don’t go,” came the “old Johnson will Mark lunched with the problem ~“¥You mean,” Mark said, slowly, ‘The elder Travers leaned back “I will. That 3 i "(To Be Continued), bottle that will prevent fatigue. Alcohol gives an impression of well-being that may cause the work- er to put on more effort, but that is merely whipping up a tired horse. The same is true of coffee, which contains the drug caffein that has the power to speed up the brain. During the World war, reports were circulated regarding the pro- motion of muscular activity and the Prevention of fatigue in both man and animals through the giving of sodium phosphate. Patent medicines based on this substance have ap- peared both in Germany and in this country. The investigations made by the United States public health service showed that the only bene- ficial effect was the feeling of well- being that resulted from stimula- tion of the intestinal tract and the elimination of body wastes. The endurance of a man is gov- erned by two things: the greater the income of oxygen during exercise, the longer a man can go on, and the more severe exercise he ¢an under- take. The greater the oxygen debt he can carry, the longer will he be able to keep up a certain effort. The amount of oxygen that a man can take in depends naturally on the size of the man, on the capacity of his lungs, and on the fate at which his heart can force the blood around. Apparently the limit of in- take that the heart can handle ts about four quarts of oxygen per min- ute. A man who can take in four quarts of oxygen a minute when breathing air can take in six quarts of oxygen when he breathes a mix- ture that is one-half oxygen. Hill asserts that a man who could run @ mile in 4 minutes and 15 seconds breathing air could do it~under 4 minutes breathing oxygen. This assertion is figured mathe- matically from a knowledge of the average capacity of human lungs and from the ability of a normal heart to circulate blood purified with oxy- gen. The figures have never been verified by actual experiment be- cause the necessary oxygen would cost $500 and a special tunnel to con: tain it would have to be built for the runner. @ “space filler” in a Wisconsin farm paper. It was noticed by a travel- ing singer named Hart Danks while making a tour of the middle west. Making inquiry, Danks learned that it had been written by Eben Rex- ford, the magazine's editor, who was tickled to sell it for $3. Danks then wrote the music, sold the song to a Chicago publisher and the minstrels fairly fought for it. The amazing sale of two million copies followed in record time. Years passed and Rich- ard Jose, the tenor, repopularized it —and so it has gone ever since. xe But to get back to the story: Danks, who had immortalized life- long adoration of husband and wife, became estranged from his own sweetheart. Something like a dozen years ago, he was found near death in a Philadelphia rooming house. He was propped up in bed and had be- gun to scrawl a farewell message to the world across a page of the song. He had written but six words— “It is hard to die alone—” But he did die alone, already for- gotten. And here's a particularly interest- ing bit: Anent the line in “Daisy Bell” which goes, “but you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.” ‘The author, Harry Dacre, had ar- rived in New York with a bike in 1893. He had brought his bicycle with him from London and the cus- toms officer demanded a fee that he could not afford. Telling his experience to the his- toric Tony Pastor, who had brought Dacre over, Pastor commented: “You ought to be thankful it wasn't a tandem. That would have cost twice as much.” Which is where “the bicycle built for two” idea originated. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) o>—___________¢ | Quotations | ~—— © What is the good of a man in high Office if he sees the truth and will not tell it to the people?—Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania. x OK % We are surrounded by traditions |that once were living but now~are dead.—Havelock Ellis. * * * Certainly I am very far from per- fect.—Rudy Vallee. *.% # We must not scorn, but study Russia. We must think along new lines.—President Farrand of Cornell. ee & ‘We are not “jerry builders” and, —Ramsay MacDonald. * *# & I doubt if the war could have been won without American aid.—Marshai Petain. * e # Numerous acts that are consid- ered innocent in all other civilized countries are made criminal in America.—Brand Whitlock, former ambassador to Belgium. “An all-aluminum sleeping car is being built for use on one of the country’s mail railroad lines. therefore, cannot produce miracles. Farm Hand Succeeds In Ending Own Life Fargo, Sept. 22—(7)—Death, de- nied him Aug. 25 when’ he was drag- ged unwillingly from the Red River, has come to Nels Swanson, 65, farm hand, ill and alone in this country. The decomposed body of the for- mer farm worker was taken from the River about three miles south of Fargo early Sunday. A brick was in one pocket an@ another pocket was filled with sand. Aug. 25, the man threw himself in- to the river at the foot of Thir- teenth Avenue south. Thomas Re- more of Fargo saw him floundering and pulled him from the river. Still Protesting that he wanted to die, he was taken to the county hospital. Four days later he was released, after telling persons in charge he had money enough to care for himself for a few days, and would again seek work on a farm. Deterioration of the body indicates, officials said, that he again pitched himself into the river within a few days after leaving the hospital. The first poet to assume the title ot Poet laureate of England was Geoff- rey Chaucer who, in 1389, got a royal grant of a yearly allowance of wine as one of the perquisites of the office. STICKERS THTMNRNNLFLFFRM te U the correct letter is inserted eight dif- , ferent times in the proper places in the * above line of letters, a sentence of six words can be formed. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: ) A man may know what day it is | and still forget the date. THIS CURIOUS WORLD ae ——. afin bo }