Milford chronicle., 1932-01-15
|riisned from FirH Paael

after dinner mlntS.
During the meal Mr.. Taylor and
his quartette sang, and led the
guests in singing MIR. Taylor played
he piano between numbers and was
often accompanied by his audience
Df their own accord. "The Peanut
VendeE" was good example of this.
fssGr. tshe, the cOmpanys advertis-
ing manager, acting as tOastmaster,
began the program by Introducing
Vaules Grier, who, in his turn, in
trOduced some of the prominent
guests who were present. Among
them were Judge Richards of
Georgetown, the two managers of
Canlk's Philadelphia house, Mr.. Mus
selman from Canada, Ralph Osmond
of Newark. N. j., their managers
from Baltimore, and from the Ritter
Company in Philadelphia; their
pharmaceutical representatives from
New York and Philadelphia; their
South American managers, Arthur
Lee and Edward Lee; Colonel Town
send, editor of the Milford Chron-
Sicle; Herman Grier, editor of the
wilmington Every Evening; the
presidents of both the Milford banks,
Daniel Hirsch and Louder Hearn;
the two men who made the highest
Retail sales i'm Philadelphia during
THE last year. and, last but not least,
the Raspberry Committee, Bill" Tet-
Hlow and bill" Smucker. Mr.. Tet-
low had kept his table in pretty
much of an uproar all evening by
all sorts of stunts. When the quar-
ktette sang Anchors Aweigh, he waved
shis handkerchief; still another time
his chair gave way with him, and he
went down on the floor.
The second feature or the pro-
gram was Miss Ann Grier's talk on
sOriental dress. Mary Jane Varney
was dressed in a Hawaiian costume
(which Miss Grier explained first.
Mrs. Marvel Wilson was dressed in
a Chinese robe and Elizabeth Carlisle
! lin a Philippine evening dress. Miss
lGrier herself wore a Japanese we'd
ding dress of black, with a wide bro
icaded SASH which she explained was
livery essential to all Japanese wom-
4 en- She also showed how chop
'sticks were used, but said it was
not so easy to cat with them as it
appeared.
When Miss Grier had finished, Mr..
Ashe introduced the first speaker of
the evening, DR.. Layton Grier. Dir.
Layton told of his trip to the Orient
during the summer. He Travelled q,
900 miles and spent forty-four days
on the ocean. He left Milford on
August the second and went, first of
lall, to the Caulk plant in Toronto, |
lCanada. From there he went west
ward to Vancouver, and took passage +
on the ship Empress of Japan" to |
IYokahama, where he met the Japen- !
Iese-ppanaa COR kellgo MQliya. He was I
then taken TO Takio to the Imperial !
Hotel, which he says is a wonder
fully interesting building. The de-
signer was crazy when he started to
design it and went to the insane asy-
lum when he finished. Yet the hotel
is very modern and very beautiful.
While in Toxic DR.. Layton visited
several Japanese doctors there. He
went to the Caulk office, situated
seven miles from Toxic, in the home
of former governor. Here the
company has a lady pharmacist,
graduate dentist and a number of
Dr. Layton says he could
not enter the office without first 4
his shoes. Queer? Maybe,
hut il is Japanese custom and cam
hot be ignored. {
In speaking of being entertained
in Toxic, he described SOME of the /
choicest Japanese foods-eggs that ,
we're supposed to be over two hum
Ired years old, birds nest soup and
salad, and shark fins. Personally, :
DR.. Grier says, he docs not believe
hat those eggs were two hundred =
Years old, but he is satisfied that /,
hey were fifty or seyenty-five! Jap
.nese tea, he says, is hardly anything
mt hot water, but he drank it and D
ound that he gained flesh!
From Toxic he sailed through the t
inland seas to Shanghai He also S
-isited Hong-Kong, Manila, and {
honolulu. lie says he could talk for v
Ialf an hour about Shanghai and "
till not exhaust his subject. His d
peech was intensely interesting, and 7
enjoyed by everyone at f
he banquet. ft
The second speaker was DR.. E. J. n
,attell, of Philadelphia. Introduce S
ne him, Mr.. Ashe said that no one n
new how old he was, that when he b
ras asked, the doctor would say he n
ras Santa Claus's father" so figure q
out for yourself. Dr. Cattell is an W
ptimist i'm every sense of the word, r
nd lie describes a pessimist as "a c
lind man in dark room looking HI
IL a black cat that isn't there" He
avs if he can't get what he likes, he G
kes what he gets, and trys to al "
avs keep on the sunny side of life.
lis funny stories kept the guests in
n uproar all the time. One of those
.ories was about a boy who was
Iucated to be a minister, and who 81
-oke his parents heart when he VI
antIa to be a horse trader. DR.. pi
atte rs father told the parents not o
worry, that their son would bring
ore sinners to repentance as cl
,rse trader than as minister. al
AT the age of thirty-one, the doc sc
+ weighed sixty-One pounds and he &C
as not expected to live. He went tv
Jamaica and made up his mind ty
at he. would live and he is living, al
grand old man, and still in love lv
ith life. He says that he envies
G young people their unused years. M
q thinks that everyone who is alive N'