Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1925, Page 75

Three Ni T HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ghts in a Pullman George and His Wife Find Things Out Home Are Not Like What They Used to Be, Es- pecially When Mother Threatens to Bob Her Hair. BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM. S the song writer once so truly sang, “It's a long, long trail a-winding from the observa- tion car back to the land of your dreams.” And what a wonderful thing it was, how he could sing of the future like that when the trains didn’t amount to practically nothing in that day and even Pulimans hadn't been invented, although why they call them Pull- man when they pull women and chil- dren just as much, to say nothing of throwing them about, is more than I know. Maybe because this is still a an's world in spite of all we ladies ave done to stop it. Well anyways, I was only the other ht remarking on this song to George, that's my husband, when he was discussing a little trip we had last Fall We had took it, on account George, before he was allowed to express any preference in the matter, was born in a town out West called Lasthope. Geo. didn’t mention whether the town was named before, or just after, he was born. But anyways, that is where he was raised. And it seems there was some property in the old home town which needed attending to, and him and his brother wasn't able to get a decision - radio, 80 Geo. says to me I tell what T believe T will get the to let me off for a week and n out there. Well, I says, running all that way will be quite a coupla Mars he says for the luvva 3 kidding. Why don't you and Junior come along with me, he say my n’t never seen the boy and e is growing as fast as a taxi-| meter fare when you're short of cash. | T'd like to take him out to the old swimming hole and get him familiar with the scenes of my childhood be- fore I kick the old oaken bucket or something, he says, I'd like you to see the place, too, Jennie, come on, there’s nothing like your own home town Yes, I says, somebody else’s home town is never so good, but never mind, I will go, I am always willing to a company you, whether on the train, the piano, or even to the electric chair, if necessary. Well, George thought we would go out to Lasthope without giving v notice, see, and surprise the folks He figured where we would stumble upon his dear old mother sitting in | the shade of the old apple tree, mur- muring to herself where is my wander- ing boy tonight, and after stumbling upon her, why as I got it, we was to pick her up. when she would cast her steel-rimmed spectacles to heaven, throw her arms around his neck, and pass some remark about her prodigal son and mention baked veal * % % ok 'A CCORDING to Geo. there must ot | been a wore out spot on the grass, she had been waiting there so long for him. As for lamps of the brand especially constructed for setting in | the lonesome window, nights, why | manufacturing Co. had prob- | ably paid out many a extra dividend | on the strength of the ones she had used up lighting for him. Or so I ®athered from George's talk Well naturally, after all the songs t have got written about such | things I was anxious to see the orig- inal. And when Geo. went on to speak of his brother, that sturdy | plowman with a will as strong as| iron bands who was now pres. of the Bank of the Warbash far away Hot Bozo! I give in completely and got all enthusiastic about the trip. Of course Geo. didn’t use just ex- actly this language in talking about | his folks, but 1 got a impression to the above effect Well, anyways Geo. come home one night soon after this with our reser- vatlons, which looked all wooly and & vard long. I had never give one of them things the real double ephis be- fore and belleve you me they was real interesting. On the top of th green slip_ which o heap was a little rs_Section hands, Key or G Track . R. S.-V. P. /At as'I could make explained where this was | watch the folk: “STILL AGAIN, THERE WAS THE PRINCIPAL TRAIN SPORT. WHICH WE GOT MORNINGS FIGHTING FOR A PLACE IN THE WASHROOM.” our berth certificate for the Pullman, | and that the other strips of paper pinned to it was not, as I had first thought, the measurement of the length of the new towels he wanted me to make for the office, but a_two- day-and-three-night license to ride on the choo-choo train. Well, when I see what a long trip it was gonner to be, I packed our bags real scientific with the things we would need first an the top, not knowing how soon I was gonner learn that the only trouble with this system is what to do with the top things after you get through with them. Also, that a person generally finds they don’t need the top things after all, on account circumstances cer- tainly can alter suit cases. However, seeing the whole three of us was gonner be in the one section, I cut us down to just a few bags aplece and tucked away the other little 0dds and ends we might need in boxes and bundles which wouldn’t take up much room, and then at last I give one final 'phone call to that Mrs. Joe Bush down the street and told her to be sure and forward any tele- grams and see that milk was left out | for the cat, and she says ves then we beat it for the R. and e | Depot. Hot Bozo! but wasn't we delighted when we first seen our section with the seats facing each other pretty near like a little house, the cute little washrooms, all so complete, the big shining dining car and etc. Junior was pretty mnear crazy with excite- ment, and I will admit both I and George felt about the same as the train pulled out and I says it's a real adventure, ain't it dear, my, I could just ride on forever! o e % ELL, there is a lot of people with the idea there ain’t nothing to do on a train, but this is exactly where they got the wrong dope. To_commence with, after the first few hours out a person can always a the aisle, who had looked fairly human at first, go to sleep with their mouths open. We had a dandy one across from us, he could actually drown out the noise of the engine, night or day, once he got going good. Then for another occupation we was kept pretty busy picking up the paper bags with the hats in ’‘em which the porter intended should stay hooked to the hooks, but which scon commenced to gravitate naturally to- ard our heads. T Still again, there was the principal train sport, the one which it is re: almost too w. k. to mention, the daily 2% doz, which we got morn- ings fighting for a place in the wash- room, while getting at the same time & memory test by trying to take all our stuff in with us and to get out of the jam with same. How anybody can complain there \in't nothing to do on trains and hat you dont get no exercise, I personally, myself, don't understand. When 1 remember the amount of fshing I done under the seats for sliding sult cases, and then sliding around with the suit case while I fished for things in ‘em, why my back aches. Three times a day we would go stand in the corridor of the car be- fore the diner in a hallway probably designed for snakes only, if you con- | sider the width. Well anyways, we | found that standing in it in line on our own feet and on cverybody elses was certainly a great time killer. Also, ofzen, corn killer, especially when the conductor had to pass through. After |T seen ours do it twlce I commenced to wonder why he kept %o fat, I should | of thought he would of been massaged away to a shadow. v |a bunch For evening entertainment we had of fun getting our berth made up, or in other words, entering heavily into the good old game of “Porter, Porter, Who's got the Por- ter?” Then we would fall into a deep sleep, interrupted only when the traln was having a hurdle race or playing a hop-scotch match with the water tanks. Then quite to the other hand, in spite of all these pleasures and en- tertainments, there was certain draw- backs to our trip, and it's a fact I pretty near had a nervous break- down every time the train would stop some place and the conductor would tell us 20 minutes here if you wanner get out and walk. Of course I and George and Junior would always do so. and George would generally go dashing recklessly into some distant place like the railroad station to get the newspapers, while I would keep yelling at Junior don't go so far dear, and wondering what would I do if the train was to go and leave us? But I walked, Hot Bozo! at least |five yards from the steps of our own car, “the dear old Rockabideawee, every time we stopped. On account I would rather not trust a train under Once inside the only remaining lunch wagon which actually moves | on wheels, the waiter, roast beef| medium, and preserved figs would kill us a little time and our digestiop. and | we would stretch out our parking limit at the table considerably by pag- ing_stewards, conductors, etc., and| aying please mister, where are we | now? What station is this? Or for | variety, hey, please, what time do we | get info Slippen Falls? Or some place. | But the excitement of eating very | directly after another family wasn't| | nothing compared to finding our way | | back to our own car after. In fact, a chief occupation of railroad traveling | is plaving hide-and-seek with your own | pullman.” Once vou leave it, it sure |1s hard to find again unless you caught |the name correctly when you was | first introduced. o EATING the bunch to the observa- tion car was another good game. Like bridge. it strengthens the mind, on account it sure takes strength of | mind to keep your seat when the same parties come back to the door |and glare at you the fourth or fifth time. But a person can learn to do it. in fact T heard a man on our train died of hunger rather then give up his observation car seat. them conditions. Of course they have a schedule, but I got a gift wrist | watch, and you hever know! | Well anyways, before we come to [the point where we really couldn't |stand it no longer, we also come to | Lasthope, and for once in a dog’s age, no matter how long they live, we got off the train and left it go away with- out the fact worrying us any. Well, says George, thank goodnes: that is over, and 1 says never again | At any rate we got a long rest com ing to us now George. I can't tell you how glad I will be to get into a house, even if it is my mother-in-laws get me there quick, I am perfectl | willing to stay here two weeks or two |vears, I don't care what she thinks of my biscuits or tells me how to raise Junijor. Thank goodness you have got one of them good old-fashioned Ma's which they can always be de- pended upon to be waiting for their errand boy. Well, George at once got hold of a taxi and asked the driver did he know where Mrs. Jules Senlor lived. Sure, says the drivep, but the house is closed, are you Mr. George Jules? I got a telegram for you. Well, George took the telegram, and of all things it was from his brother, forwarded on to us from back home. And the telegram sa Mother and Standard Travel Impressions Given After 24 Hours Spent on Tour of South BY STEPHEN LEACOCK. N setting down here my im sions of Southern life, Southern character, Southern industry, and what T am led to call the soul of the Southern people. T am com d to admit that these impressions arily incomplete. The time at my disposal—24 hours less 15 minutes while I was shaving—was, as I myself felt, inadequate for the pur pose. I could have spent double, nay reble, nay quadruple the time in the outh’with profit, and could have se- cured twice, nay three times, nay four times as many impressions. At the same time I may say in apology that my impressions, such they are, are based on the very best models of travelers’ impressions which are pub lished in such floods by visitors to this continent To one who has the to_see it the journey south from New York to Washington, which may be called the capital of the United States, is filled with interest. The broad farm lands of New Jersey, the view of the city of Philadelphia and the crossing of the spacious waters of the Susque hanna offer a picture well worth carrying away. Unfortunately, I did not see it. It was night when I went through. But I read about it in the railroad folder next morning. After passing Washington the traveler finds himself in the country of the Civil War, where the landscape recalls at every turn the great strug- gle of 60 vears ago. Here is the Aquia Creek and here is Fredericks- burg, the scene of one of the most disastrous defeats of the Northern armies. I missed it, T am sorry to say. 1 was eating lunch and didn't see it. But the porter told me that| we had passed Fredericksburg. ! Tt ig, however, with a certain thrill | that one finds oneself passing Rich- mond, the home of the Lost Cause, where there still lingers all the ro- mance of the glory that once was. Inluckily, our train didn't go by Richmond but straight South via Lynchburg Junction. But if it had I might have seen it. Rk 1A S one continues the journey south- &= ward, one realizes that ome is in the South. The conviction was gradually borne in on me as I kept going gouth that I was getting south. | Tt is an impression, I believe, which all travelers have noted in proportion as_they proceed south. I could not help saying to myself, “I am now in the South.” It is a reeling T have never had in the North. As 1 looked from the train window T could not resist remarking, “So this ! is the South.” I have every reason o believe that it was. One becomes conscious of a differ- ence of life, of atmosphere, of the character of the people. The typical goutherner is courteous, chivalrous, b are nec “I KNEW WHERE WE WERE, BECAUSE WHEN 1 S, AID TO THE PORTER, ‘WHERE ARE WE?' HE ANSWERED ‘GEORGIA.” with an old-world air about him. I noted that on asking one of my fel- low travelers for a match he re- sponded, “I am deeply sorry, I fear I have none. I had a match in my other pants yesterday, but I left them at home. Perhaps I could go back and get them.” Another gentlemgn in the smoking room, of whom I ventured to ask the time, replied, “I am deeply sorry, I have no watch. But if you will wait till we get to the next station, I will get out and buy a clock and let you know.” 1 thanked him, but thought it the part of ‘good taste to refuse his offer. Svery day one hears everywhere reminiscence and talk of the Civil War. Nearly everybody with whom I fell into conversation—and I kept falling into {t—had something to say or to recall about the days of Lee and Jackson and of what 1 may call the Southern Confederacy. One old gentleman told me that he remembered the war as if it were yesterday, having participated in a number of the great episodes of the struggle. He told me that after Gen- eral Lee had been killed at Gettys- burg, Andrew Jackson was almost in despair; and yet had th:foumogn-u only known it, there was at that time only a thin screen of two hundred thousand Union troops between them and Washington. * k- N the light of these conversations and reminiscences it was interest- ing presently to find oneself i Georgia and to realize that one was traversing the ground of Sherman's famous march to the sea. Unluckily for me, it was night when we went through, but 1 knew’ where we were because during a temporary stoppage of the train I put my head out of the curtains and said to the porter, “Where are we?” and he answered “Georgia.” As I looked out into the profound darkness that enveloped us I realized as never before the diffi- culty of Sherman's task. At this point, perhaps it may be well to say something of the women of the South, a topic without which no impression would be worth pub- lishing. The southern women, one finds, are distinguished everywhere by their dignity and reserve. (Two women came into the Pullman car where I was, and when I offered one of them an apple she wouldn't it) But they possess | time @ charm and graciousness that is all their own. (When I said to the other woman that it was a good deal warmer than it had been she The southern woman is essentially womanly and yet entirely able to look after herself. (These two went right into the dining car by them- selves without waiting for me or seeming to want me.) Of the beauty of the southern type there can be no doubt. (I saw a girl with bobbed- hair on the platform at Danville, but when T waved to her even her hair would not wave.) On the morning following we found ourselves approaching Birmingham, Alabama. On looking at it out of the car window, I saw at once that Birmingham contains a population of 200,000 inhabitants, having grown greatly in the last decade; that the town boasts not less than 16 churches and several large hotels of the mod- ern type. T saw also that it is rapidly be- coming a seat of manufacture, pos- sessing in 1921 not less than 14,000 spindles, while its blast furnaces bid fair to rival those of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvafia, and Hangkow, China; I noticed that the leading denomina- tion is Methodist, both white and col- ored, but the Roman Catholic, the Episcopallan, and other churches are also represented. The town, as I saw at a Elance, enjoys exceptional educa- tional opportunities, the enroliment of puplls in the high schools numbering half a million. The impression which I carried away from Birmingham enabled me to form some idea (that is all I ever get) of the new economic growth of the South. Everywhere one sees evi- dence of the fertility of the soil and | the relative ease of sustenance. (I saw a man buy a whole bunch of bananas and eat them right in the car) The growth of wealth is re- markable. (I noticed a man hand out a 50-dollar bill in the dining car and get change as if it were nothing.) 1 had originally intended to devote my time after leaving Birmingham to the investigation and analysis of the soul of the South, for which I had re- served four hours. Unfortunately I ‘was not able to do so. I got called in to join a poker game in the drawing room and it lasted all the way to New Orleans. But even in the imperfect form in which I have been able to put together these memoirs of travel I | feel on looking over them that they are all right, or at least as good as the sort of stuff that is handed out | every month in the magazines. (Copyright, 1925.) — Minerals of Spain. PAIN possesses a greater variety of | by smiled and said that it certainly was.) | C., 'APRIL 26, BY WALLACE IRWIN. To Editor The Star—who do not have to go to Palm’ Beach to study palmistry EAREST Sir:i—You bat your bootware 1 got a siprise for Cousin Nogl what I threw right into his open face last Wedsdy p. m. (day-light shaving). That date I walk into Sons of Ya- mato Drug Store & Saloon where I find my slightly depraved relation- ship drunking something looking like soda water & smelling elsewhere. “So ho, Togo!" he evaporate from scorn, “where you been gone this two (2) months? ~ You are carrying a suitcase all covered with hotel libels You look so healthy I am afraid you will drop dead & for what reason you seem so refined like you have talked with educated persons? Where have you been?”’ “Away,” I drape. “There is so many kinds of Away,” he vampire. “Among others there is the North Pole, Arabia, Manganese, Peru and the Peanut Archipeligo.” “Gass again,” I amputate. “Shall not!” he dib. “By yr out- side appearance I think you have been living on sunshine, grapefruit, salt water & palm trees. Which long distance land have you discov- ered?” “Charleston, S. C." I relate. “O shux!" dictate Nogi. “You should not look so swelled & um- portant. You have not dishcovered Charleston. Hon Owen Wister dish- covered that town in 1492 & wrote a book which make all the oldy la- dies of Charleston so darnly mad that they never go to Philadelphia anny more. ou go to Charles- “Axidental,” T re (2) months of ore Mrs. C. W. Quackmire, my owner, say I were such a nussance around house she would pay me wages to leave home. This seem only fare to me. There- fore I find a ferryboat to Florida so I could find the place where good chorus girls goes when they die. So Hon. Ship sail right out of the weather & got into climate. Nextly I know he stop himself at a port all covered with sunshine & Colonile houses & Greek temples & Uncle Tom cabins & Palgato trees & Gen. Peace. “'Oh let me out of this ferryboat to get there!’' I holla while snatching suitcase. “‘O stop before lost!’ shouch Cap- tain ‘You are in Charleston which are only 1: yr ticket!” “‘I should not worry Jamestown or Johnstown or Wil- liamsburg,’ I snatch forth. ‘This are the city for which I have been look- ing in geography.' “‘It pays not to advertise,’ dictate ‘aptain saddishly while pushing boat away from shoar. °‘If you stop in Charleston you will probly stay there & we cannot mak: nny money tak- ing you back East PR voke. “About two it it was “What make Charleston such a charming for people who sees it?” require Nogi. Tt are so foren,” I report. “What make it so so muchly more foren than other American cities?” are next question for him. “Because it are entirely inhabited Americans.” I snuggest. “This | make them seem very oldy fashion & peculious. Nearly all of them got here in 1640 & cable to King Chas| not to expect them back. Even Charleston negroes is such antique family that they will not let other negroes in society, howeverly black- | ened they are.” ‘Will not Charleston negroes talk | with outside negroes?” requesh Nogi. | ““They cannot do so, if they wish,’ —_— I are at vour house, will wait for you here; come at once or mother will bob her hair.” Well, George, I says, both recovered. things out here ain't like they used to be and probably never was. And maybd the same will be true going back tonight on the train. when we had (Copyright. 1925.) | BY RING LARDNER. O the editor: As has been our custom in the past the writer will sometimes answer ques- | tions in these columns pro- H vided we feel like the answers |is of gen. int. Like for inst. we will take occasion today to reply to a query recd. from a admire during the past 5 “Will you kindly advice me,” writes J. H. M. “if they was ever a game called mah jong or mah something and if so please give a few details in regards to same.” When we first read the above it did not strike no cord in our mem- ory and we was about to cast the letter to 1 side as the works of a boob when all of a sudden a flash of recollections flashed acrost m mind and I recalled a xmas time or 3 yrs. ago when I did not have “WHAT TO DO WITH A MAH JONG SET IS A QUESTION THAT IS BOTHERING MANY A FORMER ADDICT.” no idear what to get for the madam as usual and 1 of my girl friends says to get her a mah jongg set which was all the rage and she says she knew where she could get a hold of one that was a little damaged for a measley $45.00 which it would bruise you to extent of $60.00 if you tried to buy it new. So I give this gal the commission to buy the set and the madam acted tickled to death with it and had com- pany in once or twice a wk. to play mah jongg and admire the set and they was a couple times when they was shy a player and dragged me | both jongg or | 1925 —-f’ART 5. Back to Earliest American Times. Charleston Is a Model City Togo, Japanese Schoolboy, Instructs Cousin Nogi As to Merits of Art Which Goes (<] “CHARLESTON ARE COMPLETELY SURROUNDED WITH PLANTATIONS, ALLIGATORS, SPANISH MOSS AND FLOWERS. I rampart. “They got a languldge called Gulla which make me very peev. Why they not talk English nice like you & me? I ask to know. When one (1) of those Guila persons approach up to me he say without his hat, ‘Mosta, will you not yeddy me, please?” ‘I would not veddy you for 10c,’ I snarrel. ‘You should be more mannasible in your repl reject hatlessly, ‘for I can show a bodin house where you can yuam quite cheap.’ " “How distgustly!”" yellup Nogi. “I are umpatient with all persons what cannot say English languidge straight like Galsworthy. What he mean by all feetless jobbering?" He mean ask me lissen to him & ightly polite while he show me xpensive eatery or feeding estab. lishment,” 1 say so from wise gentiems zales what write Gul! sound more difficult “Tell me 9 or 13 more estr: fax about Charleston,” clabber Nog! “Charleston are 3 yrs older than Peking,” I dictate, “and when it were finished it sat down and stayed that way. It have enjoyed one earth quack, 2 cicklones & 2 wars, but it could get over these rapidly because it never had a real estate hoom. date of former vears Charleston were bullt by nobile gentlemen with money & good taste. Today Charleston hav still got the good taste. The money are in Detroit. “Screw up yr umagination, Nogi, and take slight walk with me through streets of Charleston,” T breathe. “How muchly this cost me?” Scottish Nothing or less,”” I subtract. “This are estranged thing about Char- leston. Those streets are so quant name of Gon- novels to make he & lovely they could charge towerlsts | 35c merely to walk Now unbutton yr mind & lock on hands. Very Greek temples tretch on all side of you while people in pants just like you & me come out of doors resembling Geo. Washing ton's aunt. Every backyard look like Pompeii filled with magnoleum {ree: graveyards, flowers, color.” While looking at such picture 2 or 3 days your eves gets so full of beauty vyou wish you could find a German ‘hotel & get ridd of it.” How old are those houses of which you speak of 7" narrate Nogi. “I tell you some statistick: from me. “One day But it cost free. This “This I learn | with columns lo | any columnist c | paper In| | Where they started the Civile War?" goats & locile | the Revolutio nged | . | T require quite stupidized | while roming | b: Disposal of Ancient Mah Jongg Sets Leads to New Foreign Trade Proposal through streets wigh Charleston gent- man we go inside a_very deserted anclent home. What I see ther ballroom slightly bursted with bud flowers whittled around all the doo: with splandid wooden panels su rounded by carved jewelry kind of royal mantie-peace covered with portraits of Cupid lynching Venus with a rope of roses. “‘Goshes!’ 1 holla. ‘What Jenius built that lovely inside of this house?’ “*Adam,’ report Hon. Charleston. “'Oh gwonpn! You're squiff I nudge. “IN what ¥ ok ok % XTLY we come fluous house witk look just like th ary War if plar Stanford White. On it we! er & st columnist with it were hansom & b Ouch 2 Vhat antiluvian artist bilt th ‘‘ ‘Adam.’ narrate Hon. Charleston while walking *‘You mean say in time of Ada ‘0, some that’ he betray parts of Cha his town are made 1 revoke. xions is older ‘But quite eston were bi than large | Adam period.” “That night when I go | for chance to think alonesome I meet Mi sh a rather round Towerist from - neapples what tell me quite ‘Oh,’ he grump. ‘that are Adam to which you refer. what decorated Charleston were a English artist what had a brotk Jjust the way Mr. Smith & Mr. Dodge has one. nnyhow, T relate, ‘t} Adam_were better than that one what lived with Eve. For when tk glish Adam come to Paradise h did lot to umprove the propity This were pretty smart quotation for me, by golly!” Cousin Nogi stood soak ellect, then he ask wi vol expression, “Were not Charleston g up my the place “It were,” 1 tell two (2) days among those polite people vou will Charleston disable war or a dos Society that are not civile. Gen. Sherman come down ¢ that war was hell, and prove i what he did 11d Charlestor “And if you live that “MANY A LONG LIFE FRIENDSHIP WAS SMASHED ON ACCT. OF ONE OF THE PARTYS SAYING CHOW MAIN INSTEAD OF EGGS FO YUNG.” of drawers that was always cracked in several places when you got it. They charged $§9.00 or $10.00 extra for 4 long pleces of wood that was called walls for no reason. And guess they must of also charged ex tra for spelling it with 2 gs. Bodle oL WON'T make no effort to try and tell how the game was played as no 2 4peeple was even close to a agreement regarding same and many a life long friendship was smashed and gone on acct. of one of the partys saying chow mein when she should of said eggs fo yung and a little sis- in and tried to learn me the game and got sore as a boil when I said | it was a good deal like rummy. A high class $60.00 mah jongg set iminerals in larger deposits than any other country om the European continent, was made up of a lot of little pieces of wood and 5 or dice about the size of caviar and a wooden chest ter-in-law of mine from Indianapo- lis lost what respect she had for this branch of the family when she found out we played with flowers and sea- sons though she was never able to exclaim why they was iacluded in the set, I give up the game one night when they added up my total for a hand and found it was 40,000 and one of the gals in the game had 2000 and they said that made her and I tied. It didn’t take nowheres near as long to play mag jongg as it did to get ready and getting ready was the sole of brevity compared to the time spent in brawls. Games like hockey and chicken fighting that use to be considered tough was looked on as only fit for hopeless cripples after mah jongg was introduced. They's been big rewards offered for the arrest and conviction of the goop or goops that brought mah jongg to America. Who ever done it is keeping their mouth shut as they realize that everybody would join with the Ku Kluxers and see that they got justice. A good many think it was the same people that Al , with a ol awfully | 1 |unstana what ru {T€ vou will prox Nogi, T shall tell 3 | tonished about Ch | _“I shall bel {truthtal” he de “In ( t | polite!” reely meant. 15 belleve me >u something as- | { Charlestor | you off w 11 his sc | 1 | far | cr ery - tim | Wunerful! | money to pave day night- | about you come American clima Hor | co vantage and |living in the ing imported 5.00 a hr. v Our women them, would | time before payi | bulb so as their | tramplea _es be the man $25.00 p a game that prise to him irst w at the must give 1gh to thin sending 1 to enlizhten the develop their of mah jon Amo; mah jong was the auction br run a typewriter speed don’t qualify of kelly pool but had been writing in our best ci jongg to their repert of cleaned up even more handsome than they did if they had yellow masks and slanted thelr eve- brows and hung chinese lantern on_their ear. They was many | controversy as to t: | ture of the new i by old masters of and it is patheti amount of white mah jongg lecture: | been ‘used for pictures of Swanson and Mrs. Coolidge. ] What to do with vour mah j |set is a question that is now |ering many a former addict. brief time they was a movem foot to try and other countrys interested "in the game and unload our outfits on them, but for some | reason another you hate to even sell | stuff that ain’t worth nothing to pec | ple that ain't going to nothing | for it. Personly we have a that he chests or boxes make: v. good kindling, while the tiles can be used as confetti and the wooden mone s guest toothpicks. spenc me a teacher fellows that and teaching bri days experience to ponder t space was t | Chinese Peanuts. | FOUR aquarts of American peanuts, taken to China 35 years ago by a missionary, are the ancestors of the Chinese peanut crop, which now ex- ceeds American production, -