Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-05-21
Things | Neuer Knero
And Still Don't Kno,u:

That the Japs consider four an I'M
lucky number, just as we feel about
thirteen over here. (Sho' nuff-the
American eagle unloaded his first
batch of eggs on Nippon in April,
which is the fourth month of the
yearD That new official edict
in England prohibits those rows of
KS, representing kisses, at the bot
tom of letters, because spies can
use them as code How we
overlooked this for our Literary
Lace dept: Alimony-the high cost
of leaving.
That the word coined by the R. A.
Filters for those propaganda pam
phlets they drop on enemy territory
is "BomphletS" That the Chi
nese regard cockroaches as symbols
of wealth. (Their logic being that
family must be pretty poor, if
they can't afford to feed few cock
roaches) :. That the British Med
ical Journal offers this tip for pre-
vention of colds: Throw your head
back and let a few drops of pure
medicinal cod liver oil slide into
your throat through each nostril. (Td
rather have cold)
Whether you know that ice cream
manufacturers have concocted a
victory sundae," which is made of
red, white and blue ice cream. The
plan is to charge Is cents and give
the customer 10 cent defense
stamp as rebate That Mrs.
Chip Robert, wife of the secretary
of the Democratic Committee, re-
Gently gave a Washington luncheon
for some femme friends. One of
the women invited, phoned and
asked: ''What shall I wear to your
luncheon?" To which Mrs. Rob-
ert replied: Come in an open throat
and a back suitable for knifng!"
Whether it will depress you to
learn that you have only one chance
in 10000 to be questioned in a Gal
lup poll. CHATS the capitalistic
system for you) That in
Australia there are lizards that bark
{. . Whether, after all these years,
Jimmy Cagney won't finally win the
Academy Award for his Geo. M.
Cohan portrayal in yankee Doodle
Dandy" the film dandy That
the recruiting slogan of the Marine
Corps at Amarillo, Texas, is: "Join
the Marines and see Tokyo"
Whether you know that cats are
employed by the U. S. Government
with the Post Office Department
footing the bill for their keep. (Their
job is to keep rats and mice from
making a meal of the maiD
That on a highway in Venezuela
there's a monument to wrecked
automobile with the inscriptions:
'Slowly one goes far That the
tag of Ann Sheridan's oomphlicker,
"Juke Girl" is the funniest fun.
Annie says to Ronald Reagan: "Let'
settle down on farm and raise
tomatoes d. Reagan, ogling her
chassis, retorts: "Whos interested
in raising tomatoes?"
That if you feel cold in bed be-
cause you haven't enough blankets,
just cover your head with a scarf,
and your whole body, feet and all,
will warm up in a jiffy. lin these
days that alone is worth the price
you paid for the paperD That
when Louis XIV was King of France,
for nominal fee people could come
to the palace and watch him eat.
Chat must have been scads of funD
Whether you know that in ancient
Gaul there were laws making it ta-
boo to get too stout. Of a guy got
stouter than the law permitted he
was fined) That psychologist
has figured out that person who
lives seventy years has spent 2,10O
hours looking in mirrors. (Who,
me?) That the latest wrinkle
is cosmetic for women to put on
their teeth, like nail polish, to give
them that toothpaste-ad smile
That in China the incest gift you can
give man on his 41st and 51st
birthdays is chow-mein. because
IT'S a symbol of longevity there)