New-York tribune., 1922-07-30
y e, OUR little community in Holm
lAf wood, gave the Randall Bradleys
wv surprise party last week. They
asked for it, and they got 1t. They

AMi wood, gave the Randall Bradleys a
Wv surprise party last week They
asked for it, and they got It. They
Iva really entitled to it. Sue Bradley stated
80 case very fairly on the Country Club
pisszs.
Il think II Is up to somebody to give me
n.rey. During the last year I have or
-.s;xed no less than five different parties for
sserent people and Pm through until fur
rt.r notice"
cusan was quite right. The Kirklands had
..a tin party when they moved into their
.r house. Almost every one brought bread
sxse. because they looked so imposing and
-. dollar ten; it took Mrs kirkland three
a.vs to get the extra ones swapped off for
.,mething else. Then we gave the Woolseys
wooden shower-rolling pins, bread boards,
,ouls and so on. Burnham Chapman brought
.n old clock with wooden works, which, being
i mechanical turn, he took apart, or, to be
,s,ra exact, which took itself apart. It's no
.,;ek at all to take wooden-work clock apart.
ysu simply pull out little central peg and.
v;,l the whole thing cascades in shower of
wheels.
From that point on the Woolseys' party
turned into clock conference In fact, that
Nock almost ruined the party. 1t was worse
than picture puzzle. Every one took hand
al It. picture puzzle will at least stay put,
but clock! bless you, you get everything in
but three wheels and a little fat jigger-rink-
nm, which Walter Carey insisted was an Gear
suoon"-he does say the most dreadful things,
and down she goes all in heap, and you
rave to start all over again. Chapman got
esrfully worked up over it. His face became
white and drawn toward the end of the eve
ning and his wife had to drag him home to
he'd. He confessed to me that his head seemed
to be full of wooden wheels for days after
wsrd and he had the horrible feeling that they
we're going to suddenly fall out. But he's quite
all right now.
One of my friends, young man named Ives,
vas once affected in much the same way by
the picture puzzle craze. He was marooncd
ina country house over rainy weekend with
family which had an enormous 1,000-pece
puzzle, wood interior" in which the indi-
yidual pieces didn't mean anything. And there
vas local family ground rule forbidding any
one TO turn the pieces over so that you could
see which way the grain of the wood ran
That wasn't considered good picture puzzling.
| met poor Ives on the subsequent Monday
evening. He had evidently sought solace in
Illicit but effective drinking. Not only had
he been drinking, but he was still drinking
Commanding that pen and ink and paper be
brought to our table, he proceeded to write
While silently watched him. "Bre'n'butter
ser,' he explained, 1t was rather ghoulish
often he would scowl darkly and curse to him.
self. Again his face would light up with un-
rthly joy and his iendish cackle would cause
tie steward to peer apprehensively from the
hallway.
As he signed his name with an exaggerated
smyish, he brought his fist down with bang
int ratified the glass
Good BY heck; that's good"
Then to my surprise, he tore the compo-
ation into small fragments which he dumped
INTO the envelope, sealed, addressed and
Stamped it and mailed it in the vestibule.
LET 'em put that 'gether," he muttered.