Evening star., 1924-12-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

comedy or a fine dinner party at a
big hotel.
This bird genuinely admires the tin
tube in which his toothpaste comes.
He never buys a new tube of his
favorite brand but what he spends
several minutes examining the glossy
tube.
The lettering upon it catches his
eye. as we'll as the neatness Of it's
construction. Where you and
would never give second glance,
he gets infinite enjoyment. He gets
a great deal more for his quarter than
we do.
Come to think Of it, toothpaste
tube Is marvellous piece of work.
So are all the tin cans, cracker boxes,
phonograph records. radio tubes. the
thousand-and-one things which we
daily accept In matter-of-fact way.
he rub lies right there. All of us
ought to reserve little wonder and
admiration for the little things, as
well as the big things OF life. We
should have 1t on tap, and be able to
draw 1t forth for a nifty bit of work
in any line. as we'll as calling upon 1t
only in some great crisis of history.
VIII you please look at this swell
tube OF toothepaste? What beautiful
simplicity and what honest sentiment
Please give 1t a word of praise. That
snappy tube blossoms until the end.
Just give 1t word of praise!
X X X X
Another friend went into ecstasies s
over wooden drink mixer, which he
happened to discover for cents In
one of Washington's largest depart
mcnt stores.
He was so enthusiastic about this
bit of wood that his good wife thought
called upon to call him down" for
his enthusiasm. She did not under
stand, that was all.
AS a matter of cold fact, II was a
big nickefs worth, all right. You
placed the handle of the contraption
between the palms of the two hands,
and then rotated the stick rapidly. SO
that the blades at the end whipped
the drink into all sorts Of whirlpool
effects.
Radio fans are so used to their
audlons-the original name for tube,
and by far the best-that they place
a new one in the socket without a
thought.
Yet the little talking bottle" is one
of the greatest marvels of man, the
nne elimination OF centuries and
centuries of struggling and thinking
and working and striving.
III civilization should be wiped out
at a stroke, and only one WD-l2 tube
should remain to tell the tale, il
would remain a small thing, yes, but
thing vying in interest with the
great mountains, the mighty oceans,
the red sunsets.
If the tube were TO be found on a
glacier. it would be regarded as a
marvel outdoing the glacier.
Properly thinking beings Of the new
age would class 1t as hardly second
to a sunset.
Another very small thing, yet posi-
lively delicious, is the way three girl
singers barber shop" in phono-
sraph record OF once popular song,
"Kicky koo." They blend in two
chords. merging from the first TO the
second, In way that would make
Arthur Sullivan write a new Lost
Chord and entitle it THE Chord
Found"
Yet all of my visitors talk right
ahead when l play that record for
them: They should worry about
chords,
Our magazines and papers of today
are such beautifully printed things il
seems a shame to throw them away.
Every letter is just $3.50, every page
OF the magazine comes out just right.
The way raindrops trickle down a
window Is wonderfully pleasing to
those who have the. ability of being
pleased in this way.
The good housewife may see only
another window cleaning job looming
before her. but the properly apprecfa-
tive they dream back to the days of
fairy tales, when the children looked
at the snowy crystals on the window
pane.
Yes, the little things deserve q word
of praise