The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-23

" Polish woman
 who irons. is disturbed and emotionally upset because Q favorite niece Is near death with pneumonia, and don't think we should be critical of her work while she feels that way" ... And do you suppose girls will ever learn not to step out on the porch or into Q draft to cool of after dancing? Hunted up Bob Brinkerhoff at Dutch Treat Club to congratulate him. He has responsibility for getting good food, and at this luncheon, first time in history, the coffee was piping hot But we do miss our Clarence Burlington Kelland, who has allowed the Arizona sun to lure him away from the job of running the club =. smell sweet potatoes bak- ing! Good fat syrupy ones sent by J. r. Dezauche from Opelousas, La. I can remember when we used to eat them raw, on the way to school and the big sweet potato pies Mrs. Stuckey used to bake, with just Q touch of spice to tickle the nostrils!
 When atmospheric conditions are right, mechanical sounds, such as wheezing of Q locomotive that Is standing on 6 switch and leaking e little steam, can be re- fiected and deflected and carried great distances. On snappy win- ter nights in the country I have heard clearly the noise of trolley cars in Q town five or six miles away. For weeks I was annoyed in the evenings by e buzzing sound in the air, and 1t turned out to be machinery at 0 large hospital, several blocks away.
 The mass hysteria caused in e small section of Brooklyn by mysterious" noises in the air would not occur in any small com- munity. The folk would simply comment when meeting next day, Don't you think that noise was pretty loud last night?"
 But crowded populations have tendency to become excited about any kind of mystery. It never mattered where the "mys- terious sounds" came from, and they had often been heard be- fore. War talk, Men from Mars, and general boredom bring out the police and pull crowds Into the streets.
 I had Q long discussion about steaks with W. P. Meyer, who runs The Steak House, on Liberty street. Not having had too good luck with Q sirloin, I fell Into conversation with the quiet, mid- dc aged proprietor of this place, which has specialized in steaks since 1893.
 He explained to me the differ ence between handling of beef in New York and in the West, South and North. Reeves are killed in most places by being struck in the head with e heavy hammer. I have often seen this done in western packinghouses. The car- cases are immediately strung lip and cut to pieces according to well-established rules.
 Tn New York all beef Is kosher- killed, says MT. Meyer. The ani- mals are strung up alive by the hind legs, their heads pushed back by q machine, and throats cut by rabbis who are experts at this work. Those who prefer kosher meat believe that this sys- tenn, providing for thorough bleed- ing, makes for better meat. Vest erners generally believe that suf- fering by an animal before death vitiates quality of the meat.
 don't know whether the meth- cd of killing has anything to do with 1t, but my own taste pre- fers Western beef. MT. Meyer, on the other hand, maintains that good beef can be had only in New York.
 Spot jottings: Six drawers in the card index of the New York Public Library are devoted wholly to Shakespeare Heywood Broun has the heaviest eyebrows I've seen. Either one of them would provide Q good wig for Nicholas Murray Butler .. Three Indiana boys in New York who are still Hoosiers and brag about 1t: Joe Cook of stage and radio, Ford Prick of baseball, and George Wellbaum of the tele- phone company Tip to hotels and restaurants: Better never serve Melba toast then serve 1t cold The Lotos Club dining room is the only eating place I know where there is always Cay- enne pepper on every table. Not just red pepper, but the genuine Cayenne The Schrafft places always have very hot white pep per, ground to a powder.
 The first of the crews that at- tackled the Sixth avenue el struc- ture, when the courts finally ap- proved destruction, carried only little, thin saws. Seeing those men swarm over the steel work, one naturally asked whether they were just going up there to have some fun, or were they trying to make the steel mad by scratching itP They used their little saws to cut apart the hundreds of miles of copper cables that had carried power along the sides of the structure.
 Copyright 1889. McNaught