Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-03-04

ByL. L. STEVENSON
Queer that thing like this should
happen in the great city with its
100000 inhabitants. Death came
into home and took an only daugh-
ter, a beautiful, lovely young wom-
an. On the heart-broken mother de-
volved the task of selecting the bur-
ial dress. She went to large es-
Enlistment with patrons all over
the city. A dress was delivered and
the dead girl dressed in it. Then
the mother decided that it was en-
tirely too gay for such grim thing
as a funeral So she returned the
dress and exchanged it for one more
somber. After the burial, the moth
er tried to forget and go on living
without her child. But every day now,
the wound in her heart is reopened.
The dress first chosen was sold to
the daughter of a neighbor w h o
passes the mothers window morn
ing and evening.
Here is something with diff
ferent slant. In mid town bar
room, frequented by newspaper
men, a mechanical department en-
ployee, a little fuddled, asked a re-
porter on another newspaper for
a loan of half dollar. He made
his story stick to the extent that the
money was forthcoming. The re-
porter promptly forgot about the
matter. Not so the borrower, though
still fuddled. Within a few days,
they met again and with profuse
thanks, he returned the loan. A few
days later, they again met and with
more thanks, the loan was returned
once more. The surprised reporter
was willing to let it go at that but
when it happened the third time,
he resolved to allow it to continue
to see how far it would go. Up to
now, his return on an original So
cent investment has reached $3.50.
He's holding the receipts intact and
when realization finally comes, if
it does, will return the total.
Now there's Gerald Payne Sebas-
tan, tailor. He believes that wives
have no business helping husbands
select suits. Wives are apt to play
their husbands down and even if
they are big shots, give the inn
preston that they are mere mice.
That holds especially true when it
comes to clothes. So when a wife
comes into this establishment with
her husband, he seats the wife in
a chair and then leads the husband
through a fitting room on to another
room where he can make his selec-
ton without supervision. Som e
wives attempt to follow but as they
have to pass three or four gentle
men getting fittings, they usually
turn back. When wives resent the
exclusion, Sebastian merely informs
them that it is too bad if they have
to lead their husbands around like
children. And SO far, everything has
worked out all right.
Passing along to Roy Post. He
writes detective stories. He knows
much about crime because he's a
detective of no little attainment, his
criminal laboratory being one of the
best and most modern. He makes
all his own pictures and is expert
on finger-prints. Recently, he devel-
oped new system for obtaining
them under conditions heretofore
believed impossible, process
which he hasn't made known as yet.
Well, in his spare time, he evolved
a game. 1t is known as "Jury Box
and the players either convict or
discharge a defendant on evidence
submitted to them, points being
based on individual verdicts that
agree with the official one. So fast
did the game sell during holiday
time that publishers ordered anoth-
err series before the first was en-
tirely exhausted.
It is the object of the latest NTH
ell-Hedges search that really in
trigues me. He believes the West
Indies may be part of the lost
Atlantis. At any rate, four years
ago, while exploring the Bay islands
off the coast of Honduras, he found
evidences of what he believes to
have been a civilization that ex-
listed $4,000 years ago. Atlantis-the
very name stirs the imagination!
And some of us merely pound type
writer's.
Bus top housekeeping: "He tells
her that on the north shore of Long
Island you can see the sound and
on the south shore, see the sea and
she's so dumb she thinks he's try
ing to kid her"
@ Bell Syndicate.-WNU Service.