The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-24
PIN-PRICkS-
Needles and pins,
Needles and pins
sharpen your points
Ere your trouble begins.

We were informed few days ago that
Dorothy Bronson, the champion typist writes
942 words in fifteen minutes. At more con-
sentative ra It should take not more than
one hour to rattle on column Righto? To add
one hour for reading the mail from half dozen
contribs and ten hours for sleep would be quite
fair. That leaves our friend Mac twelve hours
for swimming boating fishing, loafng or hik-
ing for miles around Black Hawk any time
between the first faint glimmer of dawn, right
through to the last mystic hour of midnight.
Salts suffcit.
tSecretly hoping that Mac won't get angry.
Getting up nerve to continue
Ready for anything.
OnD
We have been prone to waste lot of sym
pathy on column conductors in general and on
one IN particular, but now that we see the SIT
uation more clearly, going to give it to
the fire department. This business of facing
the fall of burning wall during the day and
spending the night in a rocker, or racing up
street every Cay for week and then spending
a month planting pansies, may appear ex
tremely interesting. 1t is quite extreme, TO
be sure. We always give them a rising vote
OF thanks whenever they go by, but how would
1t be to give them kindly thought while
they are wedding that patch of pansies?
To return to the problem OF filling this
column daily. we think we can offer a sugges-
ton. Contrary to the conviction recently ex-
pressed here, most contribs are very modest
You would probably find more manuscripts in
their waste baskets than you would find clip
pings in their Wallets-or handbags Then,
too, are so puzzled when it comes to choos-
ing subject matter. You talk about the weather
don't you, when you meet your best friend?
Why do you? Why don't you break out with
some Of those quaint ideas of yours, apropos
nothing at all, as soon as you see him turn
the corner? Why should convention decree that
you should ally yourself instantly with his in
terests and merely whisper that quaint little
idea with the apologize air of detected hobo,
suffering temporary lapse of funds? But it
does And so II every contrib would submit a
question or two of special interest this would
probably inspire some one who is choking with
song
If anyone wishes to pursue a correspondence
course in how to play a Bach well-tempered
fugue without showing signs of iIl-temper we
are sure that we can help you. To prove that
the thumb is never used like a can-opener in
good piano-playing and to help you acquire
that beautiful upward movement of the wrist
SO closely resembling the pose Of a dogs sore
paw, would take only two columns and boIn
Mac out of lot of work.
Probably some who are interested in scu1n
ture could start a discussion on, why we are
SO carefully preserving the statuary in Spencer
Square.
Our esthetic dancers might speak up and
tell how their toes get that way
The Y. W. C. A. Cafeteria really oves nc
an explanation in regard to the non-appearance
of the dill pickles lately. And their MEM
doesn't give all the facts. Who cares what
Ohe edtS or what one pays. It's the calorfes
my friend. They should be given after each
Item. Our family doctors advise ms To add
them up every Gay. How to do it. There's a
question.
And last but not least, perhaps those who
10 not wrestle with weighty problems all dav
long, would stop their subscription at once IL
they couldn't get them in the column every
evening So let US by all means ENCOURAGE
lot of essays on philosophy, psychology and
other oiogies with few sad comments on life i
illusions in general
HE to it, gentle reader. You do the writire
and give some of us chance to go bummine
n the great outdoors.
WINNIE.
IF Winnie throws more manuscripts in her
Tastebasket than she puts clippings in her
handbag she Is most extraordinary contrib
We always left it to B. L. r. For one thing
We were mindful Of Vangies welfare-we didn ;
want her to starve to death. But now alas
We fear she is wasting away, for Old Dick
little snatches many succulent morsel from
Ter and prints it.
WOMEN seeking state and national political |
'ffces are faced by a new worry in case thew
re elected. What. they ask. will they do with |
heir husbands?
Shucksi What they're really worried about
> what win their husbands do
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