The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-10
Longing for
New Scene?
SYMPHONIES
Discontinued City and
Country Folk Could
Make Trades.
BY GRETTA PALMER
Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, Jan. 10.-There are
y complaints at this season from
people who live in the country
committing is difficult, train sched-
ules are hard to remember and it
is nothing but a terrible bore to
catch the 12-something after the
theater. And the city-bound New
Workers?
They. dear ladies, do just as
much grousing, as you will learn
if you will expose yourself to the
general conversation at any OF the
large cocktail parties which abound
about town these days.
We learn from the talk OF the
handsome lady in a hat just oil
the boat that she is heartily sick
of taxicabs Whizzing around on Slip
perry streets and Of the clatter Of
the elevated past her doors. What
is her idea Of paradise? A glowing
red log-fre with an ingle nook on
either side Of it, the dinner smells
of a two-rio roast coming out from
the kitchen and the light rain OF
hail upon the window panes; that's
her idea Of paradise!
You Lose Either Way
That there is a certain crude JUS
tice to both points Of view, it Is
impossible to deny. ANY normally
integrated human being gets heart
lily sick of the sight of COWS mop
ing alongside a stream, no mat
ter what the nature lovers may say
to the contrary. ANY one with a
normal set of nerves gets occasional
filters over the hideouS strain OF
trying to get through traffic to a
given destination at an approx
imately correct hour. You can't, as
the cynics say, win.
Well, a small and weary group OF
guests at a gathering the other eve
ming wondered if you couldn't. We
are hereby announcing the inStitu-
ton Of a corporation to be known
as MetamorphoseS, Inc.
Two Will Try Plan
John VasSos, whose wife is pretty
sick of admiring country land
scapes, is a prime instigator, and
he has found, to his delight, a New
York artist whose nerves are at the
swapping point from too much New
York. They have agreed to change
diggings, moving in with wife, fam
lily and canary, for period of one
week. After that they will see.
Perhaps they will have become
so heartily sick of the unaccuS-
toned sounds of town or country,
severally, that they will rush back
with enthusiasm to the home whose
virtues they had derided a scant
week before. Perhaps they will wish
to stay put In either case they
are ahead, in point Of content
ment. Of the feveriSh state of unrest
in which all parties presently are
picking at the coverlet.
But there are further and far
more enhancing possibilities offered
bv the scheme of Netamorphoses
Inc. Suppose that the spirit OF
wanderlust should still agitate the
four Of them. Suppose that each
couple still yearns for a further
change of scene.
Cure for Discomfort
Then all they have to do is to
communicate with the secretary of
the association Cwho is still lulled by
happy ignorance of his appoint
menD. and they will be told that
there is an opening for a nice young
artist and wife in a studio in De-
troit, or maybe Mexico City, or-God
bless us-Hollywoodi They swap
quarters with the man and wife
who want to catch a glimpse of
Broadway, and everything is quite
complete.
Don't write in to ask us how to
do the thing; arrange your own as
ISOLATION for yourselves. But the
interchange of town and country
residences for discontented couples
might save many a railroad fare
TO Reno.
More than one wife who thought
thai she was tired of her husband
had simply sickened of the airs of
New Rochelle.