Evening star., 1925-03-04
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEwELL.

Mems desire to talk about them
selves speaks well for their enthu-
siasm IL not for their thoughtfulness
of others.
Yon lean and hungry Cassius has
gone on fattening diet, so that
when / approach him with news OF a
good book, our conversation runs
Say. ! have just found a great
story. 1t Is called"
"Didja ever go on a diet?'
TT is called The Wind In the Mist,
and is one of the cleverest things ]
have ever read"
1T Is some job to go on a diet, be-
lieve me, especially when you want
to take on weight. YOU
You ought to read It, old man
You would like 1t, am sure"
You have to eat all sorts of things
you don't want. Now take milk
Why. T."
II think it Is about the best tale ]
have read this year. IT takes a poor
lad. brought up in the very sluTnmy
slums of London. The early days OF
Dickens are outdone. He had moth
ing to eat
THE trouble with me is that have
too darn much to eat. l have to stun
down potatoes and lots of butter.
have to eat loaves of bread morning
noon and night. / have to drink war
ter with my, meals when l positively
ioathe water with my meals"
This poor chap never had a decent
meal in his life. But you must read
the story. You'll like it. You can
get 1t at any book store"
Il am getting tired of running
/ believe I'll give up dieting. Well
so long. old man. Glad to seen you. y
so long"
If any reader thinks this is over.
drawn, he has only to listen to the
next conversation between friends
1t is true that formal acQuaintances
are constrained to give q bit more
atten tion to what the other says
Pohteness demands that some con-
sideration be given to Tom Jones
when he approaches you with his
perpetual topic of radio. But you
chafe at the conversational Sbit You
have pet topic of your o~n-golf
which Jones ought to be slightly
interested in.
Golf is a great game" you in
form Jones. did you ever play
itT'
NO. I never did" replies he
Looks too much like nothing but
walking to suit me. like radio"
"Oh, radio is all right, but golf
takes you out into the great out
doors, where men are men. and all
that sort of thing"
Radio takes you into the great
upper spaces, where electrons are
electrons, my boy, where the soaring &
impulses slide along on ethereal to-
boggan slides"
Not bad, Tom. but when a fellow
plays golf he gets the life-giving
sunshine. you know, and the fresh
air. and also companionship. Com
panionship is what makes golf the
game II is. Friendship is what
makes the world go round"
why, you never saw the like OF
friendship when It comes to my radio
The manufacturer of my set adver-
tises that Home without a--radio
is like life without friend We al
ways have a dozen or so in, listen
ing and dancing"
out on the links friendship is
more personal tt
1T puts a lot of pep into home
life, the radio does. i put a new
low-loss condenser into my set last
week, and 1t seems to me l am
getting better results. 1 got sta
tion late the other night, sounded
like one of the Chicago stations
Somebody was playing something G
that sounded like a plano. maybe II
was a xyiophone. Somebody sang
st was either a~tenor or a soprano
/ am going to write OF for verifca-
ton"
I suppose you will get it, all
right. But on the links now, you