Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1923, Page 19

Casper Sway Morning Tribune | And WYOMING WEEKLY REVIEW VOLUME 32,00 Sr eg a MAGAZINE SECTION CASPER, WYO., SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 1923. _______ MAGAZINE SECTION : NUMBER 26 The Shock Absorbers By W. E. HILL. Copyright, .1923, by The Chicago Tribune. sl LNA Oh, the simple pleasures of the poot! How shocking they are to a soul attuned to higher things. Mrs, Clinger bas come upon In- grid the cook sitting fair and square in the lap of her eighth cousin once removed, and, oh! ‘the turn it has given Mrs. Cling- er’s inate refinement! Some young men never seem to get shock proof. Just look at Thorpe, He doesn't want to let on that the story Bertha told him has done him out of a year’s growth, but just the same he’s getting redder and redder! Won't some- body page Mr. Coue? If there’s one thing that shocks | Mrs. Walter Logan out’ of a calm. tran- quillity, it’s the sub. ject of ,birth, The idea is all right but it shouldn't be talked about above a whis- per. When a baby is © due in the family, Mrs. Logan will con- vey the news by means of clever pantomine of the Tacial muscles and just a very few whis- Whree delegates from fhe Ladies’ Aid, Miss Adele Blossom the li- orarian, the Sunday | school superintendent and two pillars of the church, have met in the rectory to plan a & much needed censo ship in_ the town brary. Mr. Dawe, the Sunday school super- intendent, has been grievously shocked to find his seven year old dchild reading a young woman who went to live in a forest with a lot of No wonder the times are lax with such books going the rounds! The Ladies’ Aid delegates are shocked beyond words to say nothing of Miss Blossom and the pil- lars of the church. The minister, who stands in the background be- hind Miss Blossom, is longing for a call to a Digger parish. ‘The undressy lady in the box doesn’t know what the stage is coming to. Such shocking plays, my dear! How, in Heaven's name, could she be expected to know that “Breakfast in ne Wrong Bed” was just another bedroom farce! The undressy lady is always picking the wrong show and having to apologize to her friends, and having a per fectly splendid evening generally pe arenlenietad seers “pered words. The most absorbent of the shock absorbers is the person who sees the meaning that you didn’t mean and gets the thought you hadn't harbored in the course of the conversation. ’ “Aren't you ashamed of yourself?” and all that. Pretends to be terribly shocked - and upset, but isn’t. Twenty years or 80 ago, mem- bers of the older set that is (they were the young then) used to be very wary z the least bit Ethel dly beat The lady from the small town - is dining with friends at a great big, wicked white light cafe where brazen women, all paint- ed and powdered, will, it is hoped, dance brazenly with their escorts, and maybe smoke cigarettes right out.in the open. The small town lady will be terribly shocked—“You don't find that sort ‘of thing in the dining room of the Hotel Staet- ler, at home, my dear”—and she will have a wonderful time talking it over later on The downtown busine: spends a good part of in ‘search of a. thrill. know, just a little some. thing to brikhten up the day's routine. (Switzer Brothers dealers in rubber g Je couple ¢ ed for hours.) RAH LR