The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-10-20
New York
Letter
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NEW YORK, Oct. 20.-It takes in
gen9ity TO keep down the telephone
pills In one of our nearest suburbs
two experimental youngsters are saw
lining their families nickels by wire
less. They live at opposite ends of
the village, one near the grocery and
the other across from the butcher. Ii
Jacks mother wants meat, her small
cut capable son sends Jimmy the or
der by radio and Jimmy instantly gets
the news to the butcher by leg force:
while Mrs Jimmy's groceries are sup
piled from list taken 10y Jack. The
boys are paid the money they save on
telephone charges and have paid for
the-wireless apparatus with it. as well
as having something for such necessi-
ties as lollipops and peanuts.
Practical potatoes have usurped a
large part of the domain once held
exclusively by chestnuts. Every ev-
ening on my way home 1 pass the
street potato bakers. Their ovens are
like chifroniers of iron with a glow
ing fire IN the wood box underneath.
Their roasting potatoes I'LL the air
with a tantalzing odor. Passers-oy
stop TO buy them-two piping hot ones
for the business couple in the double
room with a single burner stove for
preparing the rest of the meal, or a
basketball around the corner. Mes
sengers and truck-drivers pay the
extra penny for butter. and tilt the po-
tato carefully lest any OF the precious
yellow navoring should melt out over
the skin. They MUNICH happily on the
hot supper as they go ON up the street.
And after school! There is a bigger
rush for the potato ovens than ever
there was even for the ice cream cone
wagon
All those interested In aviation here
are much excited over the air meet t.
be held at Minola. L. L. next Sunday,
Lndcr the auspices Of the AFRO Clap
Ct America Many Few aispIanes viii
% shown, some Of which hasc made
more than zoo miles an hour, bat :hc
Oh ~ contest will be FIR no transpof-
Lation prize. The dvo passenger FOX
ker monoplanes are the favoriteS for
this event since their recent European
record becsnae knoHa here. Report
from. abroad for tho last three months
show chat these Fokker machines have
travelled Uiere thaa l6s.0d0 miles De-
tween the capital cltles without acci-
CENT OF any kind. Tney have averag-
81 Ave passengers per trip IN adlition
to several hundred pounds OF freight,
rs.'is or baggage. OF ;he T25 trips
s-hsduled. 693 were success fully com
3.c.ed. On one line. that between
Li.'izig-Kon gsberg- Nemet-Piga record
O. 10 PEE cent was Nttained Inter
est in the speed planes to be shown
at the meet is chiefly due to the an
nounceinent that several OF those
which will contest for the Purifier
Trophy will be given flying tests It
IS expected one OF these will break the
present speed record now held in
France
A New York business man has come |
valiantly to the rescue of the much
attacked modern disappearing
wife" Being a business woman, 1t
rather chirked me- UP to have some
husband approve Of US as class.
Henry Matthews declares that being
married to one he knows. He says
his own wife, Is way ahead Of any do
nestle science graduate. In the first
place, she knows the grind of down
knows" says the eloquent Mr.. Mat
thews, that easy chair and a Gig
arctic are more alluring than the
household tool chest when you have
just come in. She doesn't insist on
telling you about the sins OF the plum
Der. She has found that there is
plumbing in offices and that you've
had enough trouble for the day when
your adding machine broke just before
the bills were made out What's
more, she doesn't talk about anything
for a few minutes, knowing from ex-
perience that there IS nothing like sit
ting still until you begin to feet soci-
able again In short, he says she's
just about right for a wife.
A good come back is Just as I'M
pressive IN one end OF town as In an
other. This one was given to the ir-
garian restaurant down on the lower
East Side the other night An argu-
rnentative diner thrust his elbow into
plate of soup with disastrous results
Giesenheimer was mad. He strobe
to the Offenders table. Amt you
ashamed Of yourself? Amt you got no
honor Suppose you would do such a
thing at the Ritz-Carlton or the Bit
more, what would they say to your"
What would they say TO me?' repeat
ed the owner of the elbow. They
would say: If you want to do such
a thing. go down to Giesenheimer's"