The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-08-08
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By [. [. STEVENSON

ment's scouts reports that the wife
of a friend while riding in a bus
over in New Jersey shared seat
with a woman, plainly in distress,
who was accompanied by small
boy who was even more distressed.
The head of the boy was swathed
in big Turkish towel and as the
bus sped along. he kept moaning
and complaining that he was in
much pain. The mother sought to
quiet him. telling him he was at
tracing the attention of other pas
sengers and anyway, the doctor
would make everything all right as
soon as they got to Paterson. The
lad persisted in squirming about.
however, and finally the towel was
so disarranged that his head was
exposed. And his head was damned
tightly in an iron cooking pot. With
that the mother, her face red, re-
marked to her seatmate: He would
want to make himself a general!"
Manhattan Interlude: They were
sitting very close together on a
bench screened by bushes in Cen
trail park. His arm was around her
slim waist and her head rested on
his shoulder. Passersby turned
quickly, even in the city romance
is not to be stared at. A cop,
walking his beat, actually FASTENED
his steps and though, somewhat
fat and plainly no longer young, was
around a curve and lost to view in
no time at all. So the boy and girl
sat whispering just as if they were
in some shady lane far from the
metropolis. But of sudden, she
freed herself from his restraining
arm, jumped to her feet and with
flaming face asked: what do you
mean calling me Grace when my
name is Nary" And then she was
gone.
Long Distance: Herbert Wilcox,
R. X. o. producer-director of
'Irene," has telephonitis in a violent
form. Whenever the idea strikes
him, he picks up the phone and calls
London, Paris or whatever city
comes into mind. Well, recently while
travelling from New York to Holly
wood, down in the deserts, he re-
marked about the vastness of Amer
lea and the fact that there wasn't
a telephone pole in sight. So at the
next stop, S. Barrel Mccormick,
R. X. o. vice president, got off, pur-
chased a toy telephone and fixed
things up with the porter. When
the train was again proceeding
through the desert, the porter hand
ed Wilcox the toy phone with the
announc cement: London is calling,
sir" And Wilcox, out there in the
middle Of the desert, settled back
and shouted into the instrument:
"Are you there?"
In New York: Coming along
Forty-fourth street one evening, I
witnessed what looked like a duel
between a man and a woman, the
woman young and the man middle
aged. First she would slap him and
then he would slap her. They went
about the slapping coolly and me-
thodically with no signs of anger.
They were exchanging swats when
I suddenly recollected that was in
New York and hurried on my way.
Those slaps might have led to may
hem or even murder. And in New
York, a material witness is hustled
to the hoosegow with the principals.
Feminine: Looking over that in
teresting book, Life at Vassar,"
which gives the colleges IS years
of history in pictures. I was struck
by this bit from the 1855 prospectus,
"Oratory and debate are not fem
mine accomplishments; and there
will be nothing in the college ar
engagements to encourage the prac-
tice of them.' Another early pros
pectus defines the sphere of lady
as "hers to refine, illumine, purify
. e.. not to govern or control"
Looking at the picture of Mathew
Vassar who, with fortune earned
by his brewery founded the college,
one would suspect such sentiments.
But times have changed as is indi-
Gated by comparisons Of photos of
students of early days with those of
today.
Skirt Steak: On the lower East
Side, I learned about skirt steak"
which is featured in number of
restaurants. The only difference
between it and common, ordinary
steak is that before being put on
the grill, the edges are carefully
scalloped and the cooking gives a
ruff1e effect. Hence the skirt"
Though there is an extra charge,
the demand is heavy particularly on
the part of young couples. "Skirt !
steak" is a profitable item for the
restaurateur, it was explained to
me, because its fancy appearance
awakens femin inc appetites.
End Piece: Riding along South