New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1926-11-27

"liueliAS PiopicHS HAS given uS LII
answer to the old puzzle named
Putting Out the Flag" which ha:
so long completely baffled patriotic
home owners. We are. with oui
usual good heartedness, passing II
on to you readers.
The flag should suddenly be
thought of when the Watsons next
door flaunt their standards to the
breeze. Until the red, white and
blue flaps in the wind, there should
be no thought of hanging the flag
on this particular occasion, but one
CLINT of color from the neighbor's
house should Immediately bring the
request that friend Husband should
can find the flag in that old brown
trunk with the Christmas tree or
naments In it. After many muffled
crashes and words come hollowly
from the regions upstairs, friend
Husband descends bearing the COL
ors triumphantly clutched in his
right hand. 1t will turn out to be
that old one with the rents and
patches that gave out during the
war and which the family was
afraid to dispose of In any way for
! fear of being labeled enemy spies.
The number of decrepit flags saved
| by Families because of not know
| ing just the correct procedure of
discarding them would completely
outfit the armies Of the world (war
time strength
After more crashes and muffled
! imprecations the new flag is found
and all that remains now is to set
about three of the family busy UNI
| tangling the ropes that have wound
themselves into a knot that would
slight kink. Time out will have to
| DO called at the end of this pro-
cedure in which time little Willie
will be extricated from his own en-
deavors in the untangling direction.
The flag staff is next stuck in
the socket provided at the front of
each domicile for that purpose.
Flag staffs always have been known
to swell during their period of rest
and regardless of the amount of
shaving down done one year, more
is always needed for the next occa-
sion. During this process father
will cut his finger and will damn
this patriotism several times In IA
pid succession and Willie will lose
interest in the whole procedure and
wander off with the ropes to play
cowboy.
After recapturing Willie and set
ting the flag staff in the socket lit
will be found that it has been shaw
ed down too much and is slightly
wobbly in the socket now, the
ropes are tied and the flag is tr-
umphantly raised to the wind. One
gust will wrap the ropes around the
pole. Gust number two will wrap
the flag around the ropes and pole
and gust number three will bring
down the whole affair with a re-
sounding crash. Willie will be draped
with the flag IN it's descent and will
have slight bump on the left side
Of his head from the screaming
wooden eagle at the end of the
pole. The family will then retire
with Dropping colors to debate RS
to who suggested the thing anyway
and let the Watsons be the patriots
for this house, he made enough
money out of the war to be patriotic
anyway
Hilda, everybody's sweetheart,
was wondering her nose and maxi
ing faces at herself in the mirror
of her vanity case when we tried TO
sneak by her. We were hungry and
lunch doomed in the offing-but she
had seen us in the reflection.
MY DEAR. | have just this
minute come from the CUTEST lee
ture on this complex stuff and 1t
was too thrilling for words. mean
it was so darned interesting 10
know why we dream things and
why we don't like turnips and the
man was the BEST looking thing,
| mean the man who gave the ad-
dress was Hindoo or Spanish or
and he had the darkest !
lashes on his eyes.
"He said that we all have this |
sort of a second nature inside OF us
that we are afraid to use. l mean |
we have this other person which |
REALLY is US and If We were that |
second person we would either be
awfully happy or else we would cry
when we were happy or do things
all backwards or SOMETHING,
forget just what it was. He said
we should try to bring out this 9TH
nr person and see what they were
like and wouldn't it be awful if this
other person in me should turn out
10 be a BRUNETTE. l mean I'm
satisfied with me the way I am and
I don't want to take a chance and /
have the other person be something
TERRIBLE like a girl with thick
ankles or something.
"He said that when We dream
hat is this other person trying to
De alive and l must say that this
other person must be something
FUNNY because I have the GRAIL
EST dreams with no sense to them
1T all. / mean what kind of a per-
son is this inside Of me that wants
o go riding on elephant with
football helmet on like l dreamed
( was the other night. I mean she
must be perfectly INSANE.
This fellow said that we have