The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-05

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covered that her kasaA#-1Ezzz
chow had been for Irwin S. Cobb
gotten. The current
husband also was temporarily miss
ing but she was comparatively calm
about that. She probably figured a
husband could be picked up almost
any time whereas darling little Ming
Poo had a long pedigree and rep
resented quite a financial invest
ment and anyhow was a permanent
fixture in her life.
Through the strike here, the trav-
cling public seemed to make out.
Maybe visitors followed the old
southern custom-stop with kinfolks.
Think, though, how great would
have been the suffering had the
strike occurred during prohibition
days when transient guests might
have persisted of thirst without
bright uniformed lads to bring them
first-aid packages in the handy hip
pocket sizes! Bellhops qualified as
lifesavers those times.
Humans in the Raw.
A S I behold vast numbers of fell
"A low bel ngs strolling the
beaches, yes, and the public thor
oughfares too, while wearing as few
clothes as possible-and it seems to
be possible to wear very few in
deed-I don't know whether to ad-
mire them for their courage or SYM
pathize with them in their suffering
or deplore their inability to realize
that they'd be easier on the eye if
they'd quit trying to emulate the
raw oyster-which never has been
pretty to look upon and, generally
speaking, is an acquired taste any,
how.
For a gentleman who ordinarily
bundles himself in heavy garments
clear up to his Adams apple, this
warm weather strip-act entails lot
of preliminary torture. At first our
gallant exhibitionist resembles a
forked stalk of celery bleached out
in the cellar. Soon he is one large
red blot on the landscape, with fat
water blisters spangling his brow
until he looks as if he were wearing
a chaplet of Malaga grapes. In
the next stage he peels like the wall
paper on an Ohio valley parlor after
flood time.
Destructive Hired Help.
COMEBODY found a stained glass
~ window in an English church
dating back to 685 A. D., but still
intact. And from the ruins of a
Roman villa, they've dug out a mar
BILE figure of Apollo-the one the
mineral water was named after-in
a perfect state although 1000 years
old.
These discoveries are especially
interesting to this family as tending
to show that hired help isn't what it
must have been in the ancient time.
We once had a maid of the real
old Viking stock who, with the best
intentions on earth, broke every
thing she laid finger on. Moreover,
she could stand f1atfooted in the
middle of large room and cause
treasured articles of virtu, such as
souvenirs of the St. Louis Worlds
fair and the china urn l won for
superior spelling back in 1904 at the
Elks' carnival, to leap to the floor
and be smashed to atoms. She
didn't have to touch them or even
go near them. I think she did it by
animal magnetism or capillary at
traction or something Of that nature.
The first time we saw the Winged
Victory, Mrs. Cobb and I decided it
must have been an ancestor of
Helsa who tried to dust it-with the
disastrous results familiar to all low
ers of classic statuary.
The Reaping Season.
CERTAIN crops may not have
~ done so well, due to weather
conditions, or, as some die-hard
Republicans would probably con-
tend, because of New Deal control.
But, on the other hand, hasn't it
been splendid ripening season for