Evening star., 1937-12-12
By NC. r.

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"The Inhabitants Of the North
American continent are . strange
people. and the United States, Of all
lands. Is the country Of paraeloxes T..
We spend more money on education
thar any nation on the globe, and
the total result seems to be order
In our traflc lanes Ind disorder in
our minds. We are the greatest sport
ing nstion Of the world, yet every fall
100000 Americans-Dr. J. H.
Nichols, director Of athletics 1T OBJ
erin, estimates the number at 12,000,-
900 weekly-pay an average Of $4o,-
100000 to watch ~ boys kick each
other and . leather ball round a
held. john r. Tunis in the Atlantic
Monthly.
TOR more years than We care to
contemplate, we have been eat
ing toast. It is dry, harsh stun, de-
void OF flavor; 1t Is burnt bread, and
we have never seen . shred Of evi-
dence to show that it Is better than
unburnt bread; nor do we know any
reputable people who prefer 1t to
bread. Eating toast Is . national
habit: nobody likes 1t, but nobody has
the initiative to stop it. We are re-
signed to toast; we expect to 60 on
eating 1t until the doctors put us on
q liquid diet and commend our souls
to God But one thing we do de-
mand: We want our toast buttered on
the edges.
UNLIKE THE SWAN.
II INMAsTERED sorrow yields the
heart
No hour Of spring;
Unlike the swan, the daunted die
Before they sing"
-Fania Kruger In Frontier and
Midland
IN SMALL groups and individual
acts neither IS he would If alone
nor as he would IN q mob. As the
bombs crashed In Shanghai, five men
and girl sat playing poker in an
apartment. You hear q lot about
the Chinese impulse to "save face. I"
Well, that was the first impulse Of
six white people Each watched for
one Of the others to crack. Each
assumed pose, bravado, nonchalance,
boredom
"The girl, taking her cocktail with
her. walked slowly to the place where
the window had been. She looked
down into the street >.
."I think, Bill she said, with a
litter of nerves, you'd better buy
me few shares Of United Glass. It
looks
"She crumpled in a heap on the
floor. The others, finding an outlet
for pent-up emotion. revived her. Then
the dry American humor, the humor
of understatement, ran around the
Justified room.
"A newspaper man said: "A good
simile would be: As busy as Shang-
hal glazier after a bombing
"'Yes, and won't the street sweep
ers get some .overtime!'
The girl, wedged into a chair,
gulped q drink. The noise she said,
reminds me of the time the two
walters collided on the stairs at the
old Troc'
"'Or that time in Paris when the
franc fell -. .
No one laughed. They looked at
one another IN silence -. They
had not cracked" Jim Marshall in
Golfers.
WHAT I like about psychologists,
w apart from their neat little
whiskers, is their happy knack OF
discovering, with . violent start Of
surprise, facts which have been well
known to us ordinary folks for years u
The Humorist tEngland).
WASHINGTONIANS were startled
w today when the japanese Gift
Shop. for 80 years fixture on Penn
sylvania avenue. suddenly changed its
name to the Chinese Bazaar. It's the
war and washington reaction to the
Far Eastern struggle, explained Macy
Cohen and David Goldburg, owners
of the establishment. They ordered
the change, they said, when they ad-
vertised q sale Of their best item
japanese tea sets-and failed to sell q
single et."-United Press dispatch.
THERE are very few good generals
because most Of them see toe
much; either too much danger or else
too much success, Usually they lack