Evening star., 1942-07-13

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greasy proof that our pork chops
and ham hooks and roast legs Of
lamb are out to help lick the AXIS.
Our aluminium pans have long
been gone, and we like to think that
our favorite saucepan was with
Doolittle when he roared over Toxic,
tree-top tall,
Our hot-Water bottles, bath mats.
bathing caps and sneakers ara
fighting for the United Nations
cause.
We haven't repeated single ru-
NOR since December 7. Neither
have We passed on any scrap OF
military information that happened
to come our way.
1t seems a shame to spoil such
record, but we are afraid We must.
Those of us in the East have
been asked to order our winter fuel
at once; to sit right down, while our
seersucker suits are melting of our
dripping frames, and place orders
for next winters fuel oil, coal and
wood.
This is too much. With the ther-
mometer rubbing on freckle cream
to keep from being spotted, with the
humidity higher than the fur on a
tom cats back when he meets a
pooch. it is too much to ask man
to envision days when snow is fall
ing, winters winds are bowling and
his ears hurt from the cold.
He simply cannot do 1t. He can
try it, just as we did, but on his
way to the telephone the heat waves
will get him and he will actually
long for the chance to live in a
house where icycles swing from
the picture holdings, and frost
nibbles at the fingers and toes.
We look forward to an unheated
house, or poorly heated house,
this winter. 1t Is bound to have its
advantages. One of the advantages
Of living in house that is cold Is
that going to bed won't be such a
torture. Try to name worse
punishment than that of leaving
a warm, snug living room, and
| jumping into a bed whose sheets
are roughly the same temperature
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do it. No one has ever figured out
a successful way of getting between
ice cold sheets without suffering.
One school says to leap right in,
stretch out completely, and by the
use Of Yogi body discipline, over
come the cold.
Another says to start curling up
as the bed is approached, 50 that by
the time the sheets are touched,
the body is wound up like pretzel
with cramps, with knees touching
the chin, elbows jammed against
the ears, feet wrapped around the
neck, head buried deep in the pill
low, and hands and arms tucked in
the top of pajamas.
Neither is successful. No matter
which method is used, the cold
sheets win.
But, II all houses are cold this
winter, the change from the living
room to the bedroom won't be nearly
so abrupt. A man will be able to
retire without becoming a mousse
or frappe dish. Already chilled
by hours of reading in the living
room, he will be able to approach
the bed and challenge the cold
sheets to do their worse.
So, We are not going to order our
fuel oil or coal right yet. OF course,
the mention Of ordering logs was
just a sop to multimillionaires so
far as New York is concerned. Only
the tremendously rich can afford
logs for hreplaces in New York.
Judging by their price, Tffany's is
the only place that handles logs in
this town.
They come all wrapped in cello
phane, have been scrubbed to rid
them Of germs, bear a written pedi-
gree, and are so generally snooty
one is almost ashamed to burn
them. We have always felt that
the only logs sold in New York were
logs chopped by A. Lincoln, or logs
that were direct descendants of logs
hewn by A. Lincoln. Logs that cost
as much as New York logs belong
In the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
not In fireplace.
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