The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-12-21
PAscAGoULA CHRONICLE STAR and MOSS POINT ADVERTISER

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Miss. their home towns. To some
small extent that is very probab-
~ true. but to d very great ex-
tent il is not. And one night
when the three OF us were riding
10 the Broadway area on the Riv-
erside Drive BUS. one of the girls
amused me. and finally amazed
me, By insisting on her impress
sion. A party Of her friends from
! Grcenville were due to arrive for
a visit on The Southerner, of the
Southern Railway, which pulls
into New York in the early after
noon. She had forgotten what
/ MOTEL they were to stay at, and
had not the slightest idea what
their schedule was. But she in
sisted that we go downtown to
meet them"
But meet them where,n we
asked.
oh, just downtown. THEY'LL go
to the motel and freshen up first
but the very next thing they'll
do will be to get out on the streets
and go windowshopping. Well
find them"
Her assurance was unbeliev-
able.
That's what we always do in
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She was not kidding. and she
absolutely did not have the
slightest hint where her friends
would be. But her simple, inno-
cent assurance that we would
find them downtown" was not
to be shaken. W. told her that
every night one million New
Workers went downtown" half
as MANY people as there were
i9 all the state of Mississippi
We told her that tenants of the
same apartment buildings in New
York, residing on adjacent
floors, or sometimes even the
same floors, often went years or
even lifetimes without meeting
one another. or running into one
another. We told her that it was
impossible bv the laws of arith-
metie, algebra, astronomy and
Sanskrit for one Individual to
go downtown to meet another,
especially when both were
strangers to the town and had
no idea where the other might
be.
Nonsense she said. She was
quite sure that all we had to do
was walk along the streets and
we should bump into them-she
did it in Greenville in this fash
ion, and she would do it in New
York.
Well, | need not say much more.
Everyone knows how faith NOV
es mountains, and how young
ladies can sometimes over-rule
the laws of algebra and many
other laws besides.
We walked along the streets
for a while, without any luck.
This piqued her a little, but did
not change her conviction. Then
the three of us went to a movie.
Then we came out of the movies,
shouldered our way through the
dense, swarming mass of hui
manitv on Times Square, and
went into the Automat restau-
rant for a cup of coffee. We
sat down, talking. and sudden
ly she looked across a row OF
tables, her face lighted up, and
in a manner that was CAV, but
not surprised, she pointed to a
table of giggling excited young
ladies from Greenville, Missis-
sippi, and said gayly, "There
they are There was an excited
meeting. and a lot of laughter
and chatter, during most of which
| could say very little, being
dumbfounded to the third degree.
But the girls just chatted on,
and were not impressed at all
with the coincidence.
1t seems as though we run on
at such length that we never
will really get the space for a
general inventory disposal Of our
last-year's stories. However, let
us drop in this account of a fun
ny little girl we know:
The little girl and her
mother and daddy had TO drive
TO New Orleans for his broth
er's daughters wedding. II was
the first wedding in TIE fam
lily in quite a while. and the
daddy found himself commit
ted and hogtied with a prom
Use 10 wear a boiled shirt and
swallow-tail coat. The little
girl listened with wide-eYed
interest TO her daddY's des-
eription of tfla Highland nigh.
tY outfit he was going 10 wear
TIE description of his suit with
"a tall fascinated her.
Then she said. with great ex-
element. -. and daddy. do
you know what I'm going TO
wesr?"
What T You going 10
wesr?"
I'm gonna wear my zebra
suit!t
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