Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1941-02-20
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The excuse this time is bugs. In
spite of all the Dragging we did
about being hale and husky and ro-
bust, in spite of all the gargling
and vegetables and fruit juices as
precaution,- flu bugs got us,
just as it has 80 and A one hun
dreds per cent of this town.
In spite of all the pills, we rather
enjoyed our illness. It was the
grandest opportunity to catch up
on our sleep, and to do a lot of
reading. We were waited on hand
and foot, catered to with special,
delicate foodstuffs, babied and
pampered in our slightest whims.
What a life! And how spoiled one
gets with that brief taste of lux
ury. 1t was SO wonderful to stay
in bed that we were actually dis
appointed and cross when the doc
tor said we could get up.
Anyhow, we disappointed one old
Sourgrapes, who expressed wish
that our illness be fatal.
Oh Happy Valentine Day! Some
fond anonymous admirer sent us a
comic valentine. Something about
being giddy and light-headed, with
illustrations to prove it. 1t was an
awful let-down, after we had sec
reilly longed to get one of those big
frilly things with sickly sentiment
al verses. Oh, we'll
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There is going to be a hot time
in the old town from now until
election day. Street corners, drug
stores, barber shops, and front
parlors will be buzzing with poll
tics, and more optimistic members
of the two factions will be laying
bets. Foreign wars, national af-
fairs. defense program, state legis-
lature all these won't mean two
boots in Smyrna for the next week.
Happenings within our own little
orbit will be profoundly significant
and of vital interest, and our
thoughts and conversations will be
absorbed with these affairs. Our
own little world, the one we and
our friends create, is, after all, the
most important, however much we
concern ourselves with the out
side world"
The Smyrna Little Theatre mem
bers who missed the Wilmington
Drama League production in Dover
Saturday night should all be made
to don the Ounce cap and stand in
the corner. "The Late Christopher
Beam was as fine job as we have
seen the Drama Leaguers do.
Willie Franks directing and Iva
McMeehan's superb portrayal of
Abby. the plain New England
spinster with a beautiful spirit, de-
serve special praise. The audience
was so impressed with Iva's acting
that they would have given her five
or six curtain calls, had she allow
ed it.
The set, which George Ogle,
stage manager, and his crew spent
all afternoon placing, deserves con-
siderable praise. Ogle and his
sidekick, Mulderick, are two of the
screwiest screwballs that ever rode
down the pike, but they do the best
backstage work anyone could ask
for.
The Ice Service Company has a
very interesting display of coal and
miners equipment in the window
Of Wroten's Insurance Agency. 1t
is wonder some milliner hasn't
made some ducky little copy Of the
miners cap, light and all. 1t would
be practical for finding keyholes,
frightening small children, and
night activities such as hiking, ten
mis-, dice rolling, and ice box raid
ing. The discomfort of Juggling a
battery on your person might, how
ever, prove to be an inconvenience.
Maybe that is why the hat design
ers stick to copying simple things,
such as pill boxes, stove pipes, mid
ieval heroines, cannibalS and Swiss
\ mount air. n1iraharc
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Winkin, BlinIkin and Nod are
growing so fast that there have
been several family arguments
lately as to the exact number of
weeks since their arrival. Winlxin
IS the saucy one who tries to run
everywhere on wobbly legs, banks
indignantly if something obstructs
her course of progress, and tries
desperately to chew off the tails
and ears of the Others. Nod, the
boy, sleeps. Blinkin looks like
Stinkey. And so the little grand
children growi