Evening star., 1933-03-25

Dear Sir: You give me q great deal
OF pleasure In your daily articles IN
The Star anent this subject and that.
OF course, am not a gardener. so am
not especially interested in your
treatises on the lawns and grasses and
the birdlets and the fishes, but when
you hold forth on books or happenings
Of pleasure or displeasure in your i'm
mediate environs, or on sneezes Of the
great unwashed, then do agree with
most Of your cpinings.
Il was well pleased to have you lex
cuse me. Mr.. Templeton Jones) tell Of
the careful performance Of the young
man sneezer In last nights issue. Now
I want to relate just how I conducted
myself one morning not 30 long ago
en- street car.
II had taken my position in the last
'two-seater' on the right-hand side Of
the car; in front of me was a we'll
dressed man Of c:.cumspect appear
ance-I couldn't zee his face, but from
the tout ensemble one would have ex-
pected better things than developed.
Il hadn't been composed very long
when saw him make a wild dash for
kerchief; he produced an immaculate
square from the inner regions, held It
poised in his left hand and sneezed all
over the place.
did this occur but once? Such q
foolish question! II he snorted once.
he snorted a dozen times. spraying me
well. felt sure, as sat behind him.
Never once did he use that hAndker-
manned aloft but unused.
Finally Il had been muttering,
Well, Of all things and phrases Of that
ilk as each spasnl occurred. with great
majesty and - height of evaporation,
arose say. ! aloud for his benefit,
For goodness sake, what's q handker-
chief for?' and marched up to q front
seat
"I'll never tell you what he looked
like, nor will he ever know me, but
that was the incident.
Il look forward to your columning
every evening and. as I have said. crave
most your writc-ups on books and your
philosophizings. Am always glad to
have that treat in store for me. no mat
ter how late the hour for retiring. Sin
cerely, (Miss) 8. T. H."
Thank you, Sue. as Maj. Bowes says.
(Yes. he still says tive heard him
the other sunday)
Fortunately, We CHANGED to run into
Temp Jones and showed him this letter
Delighted" he said, Ito hear that
the great work Of the Anti-Sneezing
Society makes such fine converts"
Then he went on to tell an anecdote
about himself.
Jones always likes to ride the street
cars, because he usually manages to get
into fight with some one or other
Oh, no, not fisticuffs, or anything so
rude, but merely q good verbal battle,
such as mankind perhaps loves better
than the real thing.
Templeton Jones had never been able
TO make up his mind whether the Gu
rious tribe Of two-legged creatures to
which he belongs on this earth prefers
Its battles physical or oral
Sometimes, As during the World War,
1t seems one way. and sometimes (as
ever since) 1t seems the other.
On a street car, however, SO Jones
informs US, and he is a pretty reliable
sort Of chap, the battles mostly are Of
verbal nature, with words and frowns
taking the place Of bullets and bombs.
How some persons frown on q public
vehicle, to be sure!
One misses half the fun Of II, II not
interesting, in observing the variety Of
simple and compound frowns on every
hand.
It seems to the observer that certain