Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-06-05
OUR
NEIGHBORS
By SALLY MEREDITH


Hello, Greenbelt:
Did you attend the Cooking
School Tuesday Or Wednesday?
Mmmm-Such tempting aromas!
More about that elsewhere in this
issue, even if we do go to press
before Wednesday,
Things l Never Knew About
First Aid: You can practice a lot
of preventive first aid right in
your home, according to Max Mey-
er, instructor. For example: To
prevent anyone's taking a dose of
poison from your medicine cabinet
instead of the desired medicine,
stick needle through the cork in
the dangerous bottle; or, if a
screw cap is used, attach needle
to the cap with adhesive tape. The
sharp prick of the needle will do
more than any skull and cross
bones to warn you.
I'll bet those people who left
the Citizens Association meeting
just before 10 o'clock will be sor-
ry when they learn that refresh
ments were served at 10!
To pay a debt that I'm sorry
encumbered. am forced to
admit here and now that my first
name is really Sarah. I don't like
it. 1t makes me almost cringe; too
old-maidish, or something. When
someone in high school started
calling me Sally" | was tickled
to death, and adopted it perman-
emily. COX, DAP
Who else but our own Joanie
would have enough nerve to push
a British sailor into the rejecting
pool?
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Dean are
here, visiting his brother, John
Dean, at &c Woodland Way. Mrs.
John Dean, as reported here last
week, has gone out IF town on va
cation.-Mrs. George E. Hodsdon
has gone to visit her mother at a
) Virginia beach.-M1s. Peggy Zor-
ach left last Friday for Robin
Hood, Maine. She'll be back in
July.-Did you know that the Lii
brary has on hand book entitled,
"What Shall We Name the Baby?
It's by Winthrop Ames.-The year
old Lucky" Letkemann left We'd
nesday for DenvE, Colorado.
Lucky" was born in Colqnada
and is returning vIaS strea
trains.
! Speaking Of first Sid
was. several paragraphs ag :
funny experience HAPPENED U6r
class this weke. We were waiting
4 for some equipmnt, when in walk
I ed a lady asking, .1s this the
First Aid group?" eyes," answer
ed Mr.. Meyer, cur instructor.
"This is our sixth class, but you
may still be able to get a little
something out of it" "But where
are the doctors and nurses?" the
y newcomer asked. "We don't have
any visiting our class. By the way,
have you had any first aid at all?'
asked Mr.. Meyer. "Not exactly"
said the newcomer, "but I'm a
graduate nurse!" 1t seems she
thought our class was part of
the Emergency Medical Service
Mrs. R. Bole, 56-B Crescent Road,
went to Pittsburgh last weekend
with her son, Leo r. Bole.
If four-leaf clovers mean good
luck, what do five-leaf clovers
mean? Must be more of the same.
At any rate, Mrs. Ethel Carson
found one of the latter one day
last week. Five minutes later she
got an order for those adorable
plaques she makes.-The girls of
the Variety Store went into Nay
lors last week for dinner. l hear
that honeysuckle-Go serve two
purposes-could have been used to
very good effect. Right?
Some people will go to any ex-
tent! Our editor, who promised to
give a housewarming party some
five months ago, unable to dodge
the issue any longer finally
wangled a transfer to Denver, Col
orado, so any party given would
be a farewell party by US, for
him! It's okay. Frank! We won't
make you give party. But please,
f cancel that transfer. We won't
bother you any more.
Thought For the Week Depart
ment: The pool opened last week,