Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-09-26

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By L. L. STEVENSON
Loss: Before going back to her
little old home town to have her tom
sis removed by her family physi-
clan, young professional woman
not only bought a lot of silk things
for hospital wear but also had a beau
ty specialist add to her glamour.
The operation was q success and
soon the patient demanded mirror.
To her surprise the nurse refused
to bring one. Naturally she wanted
to know the reason, but didn't get
1t until after she had become quite
upset about the matter. Then the
nurse, who'd had a conference with
the doctor, explained that "some-
thing terrible" had happened.
cts your beautiful eye lashes,"
she continued with her hand on the
patients shoulder. "When washed
the vaseline from your eyes they
came off on the cloth"
Despite her sore throat, the pa
tient laughed. Those beautiful eye
1ashes had been pasted on by the
beauty specialist.
Street Scene: A gray-haired COL
ored man pushing a rickety cart
piled high with old papers A
vegetable peddler singing the mer-
its OF his wares in a rich baritone
.. A milk wagon horse standing
with its forelegs on the sidewalk SOL
EMMY cycling passersby i. Young
sters playfully throwing ashes, TAX
en- from a convenient can,, at one
another A fat woman, her
arms loaded with bundles, shrieking
as she skids on bit of ice A
shawled woman slipping out of
saloon with a foam-crowned pitcher
A blind man tapping his way
along slowly and chanting monot-
onously, Pencil. Please buy pen
CLIP A girl in a thin coat and
skirt taking discarded newspaper
from a corner trash can and hur-
riedly turning to the "Help Wanted"
columns.
Insurance: Ed Hart told me about
three high school lads who got on
a trolley car on Webster avenue.
Two of them started riding the third
about not dropping his nickel in the
fredericksburg a ride in other
words. The young fellows face red
dened at the charge.
81 did pay my fare" he an
nounced. do you think I'd want
anything like that on my conscience
with examinations today; and I
went to church yesterday, tool"
Ed is keeping a sharp lookout for
the lad. He's curious to know if he
got passing marks.
Questions: Bob Hawk, who con-
ducts one Of those radio quiz pro-
grams, maintains suite of offices
where IL girls do nothing but sort
mail. More than 100000 letters
have been tailed and l ,29O, 900 ques-
tons indexed. Analysis shows New
Workers are sports minded; ques-
tons from New England trend to-
ward history and, curiously, Mid
weSternerS ask the most cosmopoli-
tan questions. Sixty per cent of
those who mail quiz queries are
women. Three per cent of the ques-
tons are gags and the leading ques-
tion-more than 5000 have sent in
is, what three Presidents were
assassinated in Officer"
Information: Having a free day
between two recent New England
concert dates, Erica Morini, violin
ist, now in the process of becoming
an American citizen, thought she
might add to her knowledge of her
adopted homeland by visiting a few
of the local points of historic inter-
est.
Before an ancient colonial house,
her guide stopped and asked, 81 sup
pose you have heard about Ethan
Allen and the Green Mountain
Boys?"
"Well-no," Miss Morini con-
-fessed. "You see, seldom listen
to those mountain music quartets on
the radio"
End Piece: All that is Russian
is not anti-Finnish. Inside the doors
of the Russian Kretchma a basket
has been placed for funds for Her
bert Hoover's relief campaign and
the entertainers have unanimously
agreed to turn over a percentage
of their weekly salaries to that same
fund.