The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-08

shown that 81 in 100 persons reason
the situation out to the same con-
clusion.
About picture straighteners
shall have little to say, but should
like to put in word about the
Drape Fiddler This is a strictly
female specimen who, whenever a
husband lays a hand on a drape
or monkeys with shade, must re-
arrange it, finally restoring it to the
exact place and condition in which
it was left by her beWildered
mate. The proceeding is usually ac-
companied by the crack, soto voce:
''What will the neighbors think?"
The Cough Nuisance.
The nose and throat fraternity in
medicine has never given US sat-
isfactory explanation of the theater
and symphony cougher. This is a
type known to all, and / only cite it
for its familiarity. Some years ago,
one of the great orchestras regu-
larly on the air practically clinched
the illusion of being right in your
living room by including cougher
in it's broadcasts. But one Sunday
he wasn't there, and it was found
on inquiry that he got well and
couldn't come.
No reasonable solution has ever,
been offered for the ancient custom
among BARRIERS of loading whisk-
broom with talcum and slapping the
client smartly across the neck with
same. Not only is the practice pc
culiarly futile of itself, but it may
in time set up a mild silicosis, the
dread malady so prevalent among
those who work in stone dust. Nor
has it ever been discovered why
the porter in the same shop, his
hands anointed with shoe polish,
will pick up a light fedora in good
condition and knead an ounce or two
of CRIME into it with a brush. In
deed, our tonsorial parlors are per-
feet hotbeds of material for the ex-
plorer of the human mind and it's
vagaries.
They might look, too, into the
mental processes of the backseat
passenger, commonly the wife, who
remarks, when one is $50 yards be-
yond a roadside inn and travelling at
a good So m. p. h.:
THAT seemed like an attractive
place to eat.
Radio Is Too New.
Or the object passed may have
been a fruit and vegetable stand,
in which case the standard after,
thought is, Didn't those black rasp--
berries look good?''
About the strange creatures who.
gesture before microphones we need
not concern ourselves at this time
The species is comparatively new.
and must wait its turn. The older
alterations have the call. House
detectives who wear toothpicks are
another limited or specialist class,
to be looked into later. And building
superintendent who fasten paper
towel containers to wall, six feet
OFT the floor, thus allowing fresh
cts of water to cascade into ones
armpits.
Very common and very mystify-
ing is a practice, common to all
classes, of putting in an afternoon
remembering a forgotten name of
no conceivable consequence-like
that of the right fielder in the line
up with which Lajoie played at
Cleveland, or the brother-in-law of
Great-Aunt Effie-the one with the
cast.
Do you MUNICH at the corners of
catalogs while attending art shows?.
Then you are case for the brave
searchers in quest of reasons for
the strange behavior of mankind.
Or perhaps you swap addresses at
Quarantine with fellow voyagers
you hope and trust never to see
again. Have you ever sat for hours
undoing e paper pencil?
G Bell Syndicate.-WNU Service.