The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09

POPULAR FALLACIES
 That the only .thng you can do with blue serge suit when the pants start to shine is to give 1t to the janitor. (You can remove the shine by rubbing 1t with hot vinegar and then sponging itwith ammonia and don't forget to press it on the reverse side.) .. That macaroni is stricty an Italian dish. ct or iginated in China and was brought to Italy by Marco Polo) .. That ''dunce" means dope (Originally, it meant 8 wise man.) That Mark Twain made the famous crack, Everybody compains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.'' ct was made by Chares' Dudley Warner in an editorial in the Hartford Press and Courant in 1890).
 That drama critics have never written a hit show We said the other day that William Archer was the ony critic who had That shows you how much we don't know Archer's hit was The Green Goddess" which he wrote on bet to prove a critic could click However other critics who have written hits incude St. John Err vine (.Jane Clegg") and Geo. Ber- nard Shaw, who rarely wrote Hops.
 That cigarette smoking decreases the appetite. IActually, most cig- arettes contain certain ingredients which stimuate the appetite0 {. :.
 That television is a newinventio1. (The idea of transmitting pictures over wires or via the air was in- troduced back in the 1880's) . ;. That all critics are frustrated auth ors. According to Frank Harris, There never was first-rate critic of creative talent who was not him. self creator. The critical talent is only the obverse of the creative.D That Shakespeare originated the phrase "All the worlds a stage" Gle lifted it from Palladius of Alexan- dria who wrote it in Greek poem centuries before Shakespeare0 That fish are perfectly at home in water, no matter how rough. (The Chicago Museum of Natural History has found that in rough water, fish get violently seasickD
 That snakes can be charmed by music. (They can't be. They sway when they hear music because it's their natural motion when dis turbed.) That Japan has more earthquakes than any other coun- try in the world. (Chile, in South America, has ten times as many.) That Winters nowadays are !, just as cold as they ever were. (The U. s. Weather Bureau says they've been getting warmer ever since the Civil War and especially since 1929. And Soviet scientists report that it's getting warmer in Arctic regions.)
 That the bindings of books are destroyed when they are held in perspiring hands. (Sweat preserves the bindings. Precipitation is na- ttral preservative) That the ol,ly good olive oil is the Italian product. (According to Philip M. Lowell, M. D., native California olive oil is better than any foreign oil one can buy.) That bleached blonde hair was introduced by TTollywood's glamour girls. (The men of ancient Greece bleached their hair to acquire golden tresses0 :. =. That only movies with prominent names in the cast can be box-office successes. ("Four Daughters" with a cast of unknowns, was such success that Warmers have followed it up with Daughters Courageous, with exactly the same cast) :. That only men can join the U. s. Army. (There is a Ladies Cavalry unit of 200 expert horsewonien in Montclair, N. J9
 That the streamlined train is recent invention. GA patent on streamlined train was given to s. R. Calthorp of Springfield, Mass, im-