Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-12-04

Elmer is trying to put ceiling
on Mrs. TWitchelPs hats, for in
stance. eve heard that crack about
them being funny enough as isl He
wants the ceiling established at two
hats per season, a drop of about
eight. And he thinks there should
be a price ceiling too; somewhere
around $3.50.
Elmer is for a fur coat ceiling,
too, but the crisis hasn't arisen this
season, because Mrs. Twitchell got
a new coat last winter. She got it
wholesale at above twice what it
would have cost elsewhere.
And he thinks there should be
ceiling on all the wife's expendi-
lures. II told her last night that
there must be a ceiling on bridge
losses" said Elmer today. every
time she goes to one of them Tues
day Ladies Bridge parties she loses
money on a pre-defense emergency
level. Maybe the best way to solve
this would be to put ceiling on
her bids"
He wants a ceiling on the wife's
contributions to causes, also. Il am
all for being charitable and fair"
he explained, "and my heart is no
mustard seed when it comes to re-
acting to the worthy appeals of to-
day, and there has gotta be some
limit. The old lady just subscribes
to everything. Last week she put
me down for $40 to the American
Fund to Save Icelanders From
American Army Slang. She amt
got no judgment. I've imposed a
ceiling. Everything she subscribes
above 81 a week is void"
'Me and the wife amt speaking
just now" confessed Mr.. Twitchell.
"Yeah, it's more ceiling trouble.
Pin money ceiling. I used to give
her $40 a week, but this is a time
of crisis. The future is uncertain.
Nobody can tell what may happen
next in this world war. So I told
her the new ceiling on pin money
would be 750."
"What did she say?" we asked.
"What didn't she say!" exclaimed
Elmer.
did you explain imitation to her?"
"No."
"Why not?"
81 don't even understand it my
self" concluded Elmer.
r. Roelofs Jr. says he knows a
man who is so rich he can afford to
take the ladies for cocktails and din
ner in the ladies' dining room at a
mans club.
John Cudahy says that Hitler
looked to him like a man with a
malignant disease. He's victim Of
geographical indigestion, hardening
of the head and retarded mustache.
s'What Mr.. Lewis fears is that he
would lose News item. We
can think of no face which could
stand it better.
THE MENACE
The cops should paddle
Henry Snipes.
He drives a-stradd1e
Highway stripes.
Merrill Chilcote.
The Journal of the American Med
ical Association reports that expert
ments at Harvard prove that women
suffer from cold and heat more than
men because they do not dress as
warmly. This makes the opinion
unanimous and presumably official.
C. P. Yaglou and Anne Messer
who conducted the experiments had
a group of men sit in an air-condi-
toned room in mems trousers and
then change to women's lingerie.
Then they had women 60 through a
similar test. Nothing can convince
us that the whole thing wasn't ar
ranged by couple of Yale men.
Washington, in it's new tax pro-
posals, may subscribe to the notion
that it is impossible to get blood
from a stone. But it thinks the idea
is good.
THE SEASONS
I, Winter is an old dame
In a white lace cap;
Spring is maid with folded hands
And flowers in her lap.
Summer is a golden queen
Wearing a jeweled crown;
And autumn is gypsy
In a russell gown.
Joan Maher.
Smile by r. Roelofs Jr.: AS
patient as a man waiting while his