The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-21
SOON
WILL WORK
HOOK RUGS
No Wonder Girls Are Leaving
Home and Mother for
Ice Men.
BY n. d. Cochran

Times Staff CorresD Ondent
NEW YORK, June 21.-Why do
men get a big kick out Of seeing
Babe Ruth make a home run?
And why will thousands pack the
Madison Square Garden. or even
the Yankee Stadium. and yell like
savages while Paul Berlenback and
Young Stribling try to pound one
mother into insensibiity?
Not Nice to Fight
Here's one explanation. The great
majority of men get little or no
chance to do anything worth while
physically. In the big cities there
ISN'T even a vacant lot big enough
for ball playing. And it isn't con.
sidered nice to fght-unless one is
q professional and makes a business
IF it.
So men hire their playing and
lighting done for them. They pay
TO see a husky herman do the things
they would like to do themselves.
Few men will admit it, but there
probably isn't living man who
wouldn't like to smash somebody in
the nose or on the point of the
chin. But. they are afraid-either Of
getting licked or of being arrested.
He Pays Babe Ruth
The baseball fan would like to
knock the ball over the fence, but
he can't do it-so he pays to see
Babe Ruth do It for him.
He can't make a ninety.yard run
through field Of football players
so he pays to see Red Grange do It.
And men like to yell. They can't
do It at home. at the shop or office,
or on the street. People would
think they were crazy. But they can
VT in the bleachers and yell their
heads off and get away with It.
Tatting Next
Maybe we have improved as we
have become more civilized, but I'm
not sure that we have. It would
be tough work making heroes of the
drug store cowboys and street corner
sheiks of the rising generation. If
they keep on softening down they'll
be getting their exercise working
hook rugs or sitting in rocking
chair doing tatting.
And more and more girls will be
clipping with a husky ice man.
AS the boys have been deteriorat.
ing physically the girls have been
improving. Probably more Of them
than ever before look good in one
piece bathing suit. If the picture
papers ran as many pictures OF the
general run Of men as they do of
girls. people would understand why
the modern male thoroughly covers
his body from neck to ankles.
Men Losing Shapes
Even in middle-age the girls keep
their shape, but the men.-they're
awful. Lots Of them who had their
pictures taken at Palm Beach had
heads like billiard balls and bellies
like big bass drums.
It seems as If men nowadays are
working their heads of 10 pile up
enough money to enable them to hire
other men TO fight for them. play
games for them and do many other
things that he-men used to do for
themselves,
Even Emotions
They won't even give their emo
lions exercise. for they hire profess
sional charity sharks to DO their
charity for them, This saves them
the worry OF knowing how the un,
fortunate live and suffer
A successful business man who
was an athlete in his college days
but is now fat and lazy told me re-
Gently that his favorite and most
frequent dream was of knocking a
two-base hit over the second base
mans head with the bases full. He's
among the thousands who get kick
out Of seeing Babe Ruth make a
homo run-or reading shout II,