Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1926, Page 89

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—JANUARY 3, 1926. THE GLOOM DISPENSERS BY W. E. HILL (Copyright. 1926, by the Chicago Tribune ) The telephone gloom, when there are no actual bad tidings to broadcast, will ring up on a nice, pleasant morning and tell you she’s been thinking of some far- off relative and can’t get said person out of her mind. “I'm SURE Ida has met with an accident or some- thing!” Growing girls of the younger generation are the cause of much gloomy foreboding on the part of the older and soberer generation. “What,” they groan, “WILL their children be like!” The defeated candidate sees not a ray of hope on the clouded political horizon. Has a lot to say about sinister influences and money interests behind his defecat. It's a gloomy world for the common peepul. Harold, the grillroom gloom, is the original appetite de- spoiler. Says he, “If we could see the places where the food they serve in res- taurants is cooked, I'll bet we'd never eat anything away from home!" Those sensitive souls, with an eye for the beautiful in life, are ever being saddened by the Bartlett pear-shaped craniums of The elderly Pollyanna, with the ladies who failed to g the tinge of roguishness, think twice before bob- casts dark shadows over the bing. Many an esthete sunniest disposition. With a has been plunged in gloom gay tee-hce for each and by these sights! every mishap she spreads thoughts of arson and mur- der in her wake We have with us this day the Statistics show that much 4 gloom-dispensing lady who of the current mental de- v deals in 'jo‘;‘“C}JD'S- 1f your The pessimism of the overtired business man sees everything pression and the gloomy name s Yo Jones yorfare about as black as they make 'em More world wars, busi- dispositions in this great ) X A b g ‘c’::r(fi?; atogki:;:’“ny ‘E‘“"L- dilc‘ ness depression and chronic indigestion are what the age is land of ours are caused 5 P : ] € h £ —assanura headed for, opines the O. T. B. M. by the heavy humorous g L unless you change your cog- line of the substitute . nomen to Ichnuma or Wee- broadcasters who fill in hawken. That's the kind of when called upon. a girl she is! _ RN el T AW