South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-07-10

the writer was eager TO learn what
effect the hot weather and the pos
slble irritauOns resultant from mis-
placed and lost aCcoutrements had
upon the man incumbent at the
clerks Office aat the court house.
True to form Mr.. Warner was
graciousness itself When accosted
with the pointed question of how he
marshalled his usual pocket tenants
at the present when a lack Of coat
and vest indicated lack of pockets
he admitted that his tools were
sometimes a cause of momentary
loss Of temper when they persisted
in evading his hasty hunt for them.
Speaking for the other male mem
bers of his office force he averred
that az times they entertained va
cant expressions quickly followed
by verbal expressions not lacking
lucidity. apparently caused through
the evasiveness of a pencil placed
somewhere about the confines of the
Office a few minutes or hours before.
According 10 Mr.. Warner the men
employed in the office of the county
clerk have a pet phrase which~is
repeated at frequent intervals during
a hot summer day and consists al
most always Of these words rendered
in a voice couched in varying de-
grees of WEAKNESS. Now Where is
that Pencil?" Mr.. Warner believes
that girls are exceptionally endowed
by nature or the beauty parlor ex-
perts with enough hair architecture
ally arranged for the stationing Of
pencils and lens in a safe place. So
il seems that the men at the court
house have discovered no means by
which office equipment can be per
manently attached TO their persons.
when the coat hangs in the cloak
room instead of on its masters back.
Not Heat Sufferer.
Paul Knox Collins maitre de hotel
at the oliver. declared that he is in
no way a heat sufferer. He rarely
smokes and so never carries
matches. He never burdens himself
with pencils. for although he works
approximately IS hours a day and
finds frequent use for a pencil or
pen he never fails TO discover just
him A very necessary adjunct 70
his apparel he says is a supply Of
pocket handkerchIefs and when ne
is without a coat he drapes these &C
| cessories about on his line OF march
through the hotel and on his return
triT gathers the pieces OF linen
which were hung up damp. in neat
fashion and places them in some
/ convenient place ready for the next
call 10 service.
George Black, promoter OF the
| Progressive exposition is also an ad-
voCate Of "vestless days" when the
thermometer persists in dangling
around 100. He also sheds his colla~
and tie. George explains that the
I heat doesn't bother him much be-
cause he doesn't indulge in alcoholic
beverages. Then too. he believes that
one can greatly avoid the heat bv
/ keeping a cool mental attitude THIS
genial friend Of Mr. Collins doesnt
/ get worried or fustered no matter
which way the wind blows AS for
missing the pockets in a vest Black
I SAYS he can carry every thing he
needs in his trouser pockets.
When Rudolph Alderman at the
f O'Dell Tire and Rubber Co. was
+ asked for statistics relative 10 the
+ loss OF pencils matches. notes. etc.
he said he had the thing well sys-
temitized. Mr. Ackerman's work Is
/ Of such a nature that a pencil or pen
+ finds a constant resting place be-
tween the thumb and forefinger OF
his right hand and when not found
+ in that place is an indication that II
+ has passed its age OF usefulness.
/ Mr.. Alderman said that Pres.
I Harding asserts summer Expresses
/ him because cf the lack OF his Gus
+ tomary pockets he can never pace
his hand on the object he is in need
Of and such a state worries him not
a little Why the president shouii