Smyrna times., 1933-03-15
ABOUT TOWN
Jay Dee

Frightening moon are stimulating
the world-old emotion, Romance!
Taking advantage of the beautiful
evening, I walked by the school
and athletic grounds. There were
three couples walking hand in
hand, so completely enraptured in
their newly found love that the
rest of the earth didn't exist. One
couple halted under street lamp
to part for the night and pray for
the next meeting to hurry. He
took both her hands in his and
looked down into her shining eyes.
They were so young, and SO ter
ribly sincere. His low voice was
vibrating with a nameless anxiety
when he asked: you know love
you, don't you, darling?" She
choked back the tiniest sob and
melted into his arms-happy. For
no good reason, things like that
make me dissolve.
If nothing else, it should prove
that, at last, Spring is here!
Spring, when young mans fancy
lightly turns to what a woman has
been thinking about all year. From
now on everybody will blame
everything on Spring Fever.
Yesterday one of the young men
about town was holding up the
pillar in front of the drug store.
He had that unmistakable dreamy
look. A friend of his ambled up
to him and rudely asked him what
he had on his lip. The pillar push
er heaved a blissful sigh and said:
Don't bother that, it's a piece of
my girls fever blister" Now will
you believe me?
/ One little error in spelling al
most caused a rift in relations this
week. One of the more exacting
boys received a letter from his be-
loved, and in it she stated that
i've been 'boweling' almost every
night. It's such fun" We all
tried to pacify him with sugges-
tions that she might have taken up
the Hula, or something. No use.
Finally he could stand it no longer,
and called her up. She meant
bowling Sometimes I think life is
too complex for me.
For a month I have been want
ing to 20 to one of our clothiers
and tell him that his Special Sale
sign was upside down. Everyday
in the week, that sign would smack
me in the eye. I was injured to
think that one of our citizens was
50 ignorant and unobserving, and
the speech had prepared was q
honey. Just in the nick Of time
found out that the sign was sup
posed to be that way. I shuddel
to think of what might have hap.
pened; hereafter I'll mind my OWL
business.
Two of our elderly maiden ladie:
, were seen being very kittenish witt
a silk stocking salesman Saturday
; And in front of the A. & P. too
That the ladies would do such {
, thing is forgivable-one does d.
, things on the spur of the momen
that one regrets afterwards. Were
the girls remorsful? Not by
long shot; they were sore becaus'
he didn't get fresh and ask to dem
onstrate his wares. Don't know
what this older generation is com
ing to. And they were SO old tina
they could remember when Fam.
was the name of an old-fashionet
girl.
A couple of sedate business mel
about town went to place wher
. giggle-soup is manufactured wit
the intent of having few gallon
j for a dry spell. They acted rathe
! bored, but felt pretty devilish jus
n the same. Just as the jugs wer
= being deposited into the car, tw
boys from No. 8 drove up in tn
I police car. Boys and girls, tn
h gentlemen from Smyrna did som
= plain and fancy scramming. A
I soon as they rounded a corner the
threw the stuff in the creek Will
: in full flight. They roared dow
q Main street and came to a screech
e ing stop in front of their offices
I dashed in, hung up in conference
n signs, and shivered. Two days lat
70 er they found that the copper
.e were looking for a colored chicke
/ thief, and not for Volstead viola
v tors. Are they sick!
h One Of next generations littl
2 ladies about town was watchin
t her grandmother do a jig-saw {
r General Washington and his aide
S, When partially completed, she tol
a. little Jean that one Of the men wa
le George Washington. Snaps 4
lp Jean: Grandmother, do you kno
I'd any Of these men besides George
te Cute?
le Body Changes
ne No person possesses the san