Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-08-05

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star when she dis y \
covered that her -
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 financial invest
ment and anyhow was 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 behold vast numbers Of fell
"A low beings 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
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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 q 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
chaplet Of Malaga grapes. In
the next stage ne peels like the wall
paper on an Ohio valley parlor after
food time.
Destructive Hired Help.
COMEBODY found stained glass
~ window in an English church
dating back to 685 A. D., but stir
intact. And from the ruins of q
Roman villa, they've dug out mar
BILE figure of Apollo-the one the
mineral water was named after-ir
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 il
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 fiatfooted 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 ! won fol
superior spelling back in 1904 at the
Elks' carnival, to leap to the fiool
and be smashed to atoms. She
didn't have to touch them or ever
go near them. / 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 ! decided i
must have been an ancestor o.
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-harS
Republicans would probably con
tend, because of New Deal control
But, on the other hand, hasn't i
been a splendid ripening season fol
sit-downs, walk-outs, shut-ups, lock
outs and picket lines?
It makes me think of the ittl'
story the late Myra Kelly used Il
tell of the time when she was a pub
lie school teacher on New York;
East Side. She was questioning he
class of primary-grade pupils
touching on the callings of their re
spective parents. She came to on,
tiny sad-eyed little girl, shabby ans
thin and shy.
Rosie" she asked, Eat what doe
your father work."
"Mein poppa he don't never work
Teacher" said Rosie.
Doesn't he do anything at all?'
"Oh, yessum."
swell, what does he dor"
''He strikes"
IRWIN S. COBB.
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