Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-28
Jack Pickering
Here
and
Now
Jack Pickering

MEN: Everett n. PETERSEN, III
charge Of the Public Library's
War Information Centers, tells
us about the young lady who
!. visited the downtown center last
r week asking for information on
how to be assigned to overseas
duty with the WAACs.
She would join. she said. II
she could be assured Of being
shipped out of the United States,
and she didn't mind telling why.
Most of the WAACs, she had
heard, were being sent out to
Iowa and never saw any men,
"Why. It's terrible" she said.
"Tillie the Toller I'm the funnies
Joined up, and she had TO call
up her boy friend long distance
= to talk to n man."
There was also the slightly
deaf old lady who demanded TO
know whether Franklin-thats
all, Just Franklin-was still
sergeant, or had he been pro-
NOTED?
The only Franklin we know
who could be identified by his
first name isn't a sergeant, and
isn't likely to be promoted. He's
commander-in-chief. and there's
nothing he could be promoted to.
FALL: Besides the weather
and football and apples. there is
one more sure sign Of fall. Kitty
has been suggesting a tour OF
the model rooms in the furni-
ture sections of Kern's and
Hudson's.
used to think that Kitty was
peculiar In this regard, but 1
find that other husbands 20, too.
In fact, one o. h. said that some
Amen even reach q stage ut which
|they can tell Sheraton from
Duncan Phyfe.
II is. however, strictly a
woman's paradise. and the men
have to be satisfied with in
cidentals. There are rooms out
fitted in walnut. in maple. in
mahogany. in modernistic furni-
ture and Victorian. Living
rooms. dining rooms. sunrooms,
writing rooms and parlors.
The department store people
ought to toss a cr,Ifnb TO the
husbands and include a couple
OF corners 10 represent the base
meHt. A display showing how TO
iii up the cellar as a home
workshop would give the men
An interest.
A. IL II. the poor husbands
traipse along trying to make an
intelligent comment occasionally.
Once. when I was new ut this
sort of thing. we were admiring
q super dooper bedroom that
was 10 elegant that you expected
butler 10 pop In and inquire
I'm am English accent, "Shall l
lind the alarm clock now,
Nj dame:-
just 10 show contempt Il sup
',osel for all this elegance. 1
cave Kitty a shove and she went
srrawiing across bed that
probably cost 5000.
Just as she went flop. with
her skirts fying, a party OF peo-
pie who looked as though they
could afford to buy some OF this
splendor popped their heads
through the doorway.
Kitty Strengthened her skirt
and tried 10 look sedate. which
was impossible under the cir
cumstances. The affluent people
said OH and withdrew
quickly. and Kitty never since
Nthen has quite trusted me on
ehese furniture jaunts.
y So for the last several times
I have tried TO behave myself.
In fact. thought might watch
for a hint NJ to what she'd like
for Christmas, and thought that
had the right idea when Kitty
started admiring a small nest
Of tables. that being about my
financial speed.
So / looked at the price tag.
II said Orig. Eng, circa 1879.
$3.50"
Maybe some day the miracle
will happen, and / will catch
Kitty admiring something with
a price tag that says Orig.
Grand Rapids, circa 1912" with
a price TO fit. But / doubt II.
Anyway. looking at furniture
Is an escape for wives. and they
do il for the same reason that
we read wild west stories.
In fact. when we got home
and were looking at our own
furniture. bedraggled and obvi-
ously orig. Grand Rapids in
comparison with what we had
seen. Kitty said dreamily:
at would he nice, wouldn't
n. " we had the money to
furnish our house like that:
Only " YOU could Just 60 buy IL
all. without worrying about the
cost. that would take all the FUN
ont Of ~. too, wouldn't it,"