The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-06
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

tO unueTbtuHu W1y dIu Ou ny way back to New York, not even the ton to see mo of.
 At least. they pretended not to understand. Surely you could keep on writing that column, or whatever you call 1t, just as well from down here, they said. ''Why don't you wire your boss that you want to stay another month";"
 Well" I murmured, standing there by the train and shivering q bit in the not-too-tropical night, maybe he wouldn't like that. And you know there are a lot of people who could write columns"
 "I'll bet you'll be awfully sus- ceptible to colds, plunging right into one of 'those blizzards,'' jibed a bronze pal. "The pneumococci probably are fitting around Times Square thicker than snowfiakes."
 "Ah, snowfiakes! said I, and sneezed. "Times Square is mighty pretty in Q snowstorm."
 T believe the mans homesick," opined Broadwayman who was beginning to look little wlstful.
 "i'm afraid you're right" re. piled your correspondent.
 Justinable Homicide
 Jesup, Ga = At breakfast this morning met a New Yorker. A MT Morris, who has something to do with retning theaters. Mir Morris Is sure-enough homesick. He keeps glancing impatiently at the mopotonous vista of palms and pines, and swears he's going to jump off the train and roll in the first snowbank he sees. My friend has told me little fable about how the murder of [ Manhattan florist was solved. De- tectivcs worked for weeks without a clue, until finally q brilliant the florists last customers was a Broadwayman recently returned from two solid years In Florida. He'd gone broke betting on the races, and had to stay. Many night he slept outdoors, under the palms. Finally he earned little stake, by selling cocoanuts or something, and made q phenom- enal cleanup at the race track. This man was arrested, and confessed. Admiring officials ask cd the detective for an explana- tion. "I figured" he said, that this fellow came back from two years in Florida and arranged for a big homecoming party for his Broadway pals. He hired 6 din- ing room, and he hired n caterer. Then he hired this florist to dec crate the place fin style belitting the return of a prodigal. Shortly before the dinner he went to look over the room, and what do you think ha fOundv
 "He found the joint decorated with poinsettin, hibiscus and palms. He went out and shot the l florist. And think the prosccu- tor ought to recommend elem | ency."
 Panoramic Paradox
 Green Pond, s. C.-- This is the | country where tho natives get the resin to make the turpentinc that is used 10 mako the paint that they don't use on their houses.
 Elrod. N. c. - Our train is call- cd q Special" It is specially slow. We nrc two hours and twelve minutes late now, and Mir ing at tho cabins and tho gray houses strung along tho way my l friend has been reminded of an- other fable --- about how Peggy Hopkins Joyce once argued that she was just home-giri at heart.
 "I would like to be just q sini- p1o housewife,' said Miss Poyce. "I would tend a little garden, and a modest cottagc--probably down in the southland somewhere---and 6 flne. strong man would came home to me every evening from his work. would set our table with lots of plain, well-cooked food. and afterward we would sit by our fireplace and remind each other how truly fortunate we | were.
 "rhen he would whisper that he had bought me Q little pres- ent on the way home from the fac- death, and would shut my eyes very tightly while he put the pres ent in my hand. It would turn out to be q plain, square-cut cm- erald. weighing only eighteen or twenty carnts." ta*i In the Home Stretch
 Richmond, Va Snow! MT Morris was asleep, or he prob- ably would have got out and roll cd in 1t.
 Philadelphia, Pa The New York newspapers!
 New York City, N. Y.---Marvcl- ous city awakening to morning life! Lovely shish! Fragrant rbon-monoxlde fumes! Beauti- ful scot! Iseaming Mir Morris. shaking hands and wishing me well. Symphony of taxi horns and thrilling. tympanlc roar of elevat- ed trains. Hello, Broadway
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