St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-26
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y. 81 NEIL DODS0n RUSSELL

It's all for another Christmas that is Some Of us
for the pretty prees bought
Christmas Unhappy husbands will from be trying to ease
out of the house without the tie the little woman pre-
sented them with o the morning of the Yue day
They'll get the front door and the better
half will pucker her face and start shifting:
Henry You're wearing of your Christmas
hes And after spent HOURS trying to get some
thing you'd like! You just don't appreciate anything NV
you'll Blah bah, blah, ETC." The staff and ~
office parties over, Brother Russell went to
one at McCarthy's. He came home carrying a
rack, a handkerchief and a load of Scotch The
department sales ready to meet the
avalanche of exchanges coming the aftermath Of ,
spirit fifty of theNE RUSSELL
population the other fifty cent something ALREADY
doesn't want can't
Things got off to merry clip The poOch found him.
girl friend who amt willing and he spends twenty hours
twenyfou stalking When he does home he's
could off everything in the ernt and
would know the difference My father forgot to put on
glasses fixing the Christmas and sawed off the
pinnacle Bethlehem supposed Result
baby fatop couple Of days before
Christmas the kitchen plumbing started to make noise like boiler
factory Three people Christmas cards without EN-
the front off that fancy postwar stove we bought
When the from the Gas to
bargain he knocked the door of the
downstairs Nobody home to tell him he was in the
right seedaded off to wherever
gas off when they're supposed to fix something
Nothing like the good old holiday atmosphere to brighten up the
Now we get into New motif. New Years always
starts a mistake. By the time New
nobody condition whether not
it's the old The ought to start
December 81 That would give the American
people the spirit of the thing instead of
spending January trying get the spirit out of the American
people How anybody look resolution the face when he's got
hangover in he head?
For those who brigheyed and
sprtey pass the following Drinkers Commandments from
Rice's book, "Toasts and Triples"
l. First, study where to draw the line
If eight will answer why take nine?
2. OF your days being learn the state:
Sometimes three far as eight
8. Dilute your liquor always; OR
Yourst mach hast go o
a Sit down and take your time; for know
The only pleasures drinking
6. Talk jest and laugh in this way
The merry fumes of many glass
Eat frequently with spells of food
Three times the drink can be withsood.
7. When your head reels, then stop at once,
you'll both be sick and Ounce.
8. Stay up till calm; you'll feel next day
Much better than the other
8. Avoid hold-overs: there's road
May bring your back heavy a load
TO- And, if with drinking must brawl
For love of Man, don't drink at all!
THE MAIL BAG Walker, executive
tary Urban League former cassmate
of the University Everybody around here knows Ae
your Father Time has been rather kind
yo your smoking growing bald mine
be- have often thought about our old days at Minneapolis
and what has happened and others read the paper
from column column and in detail 1.-THE Way See it,"
don't the deceive 1t taken when
York. by Smith, Photographer 1t
also TAKEN dear boy when about twenty pounds lighter than
am at present still have my wig (now auburmsh but the stream
lined frame of the odn days BUT GONE When good
friend S Oliver town with his band some months back he took
one look and groaned: Oh No! CAN'T be-! But 49, son. Is
That show producer New York who to put into thee
aeea bzne about five would into dead faint
if he could see Yours Truly poor
Beverly Hagen of the Silver Triangle HiY at Roosevelt
o little
them in language thought they would under
appreciate clicked because after
kids said the interesting and in
relations they had about
thrill had all when girl and said:
young people who prejudced It's parents
l asked that big rOomfu of girls: as that true?"
nOdding of heads The encouraging
is that the hem to feel their
pretty hopeless they realize that the solution Of
thing with growing aduhOOd
Incidentally Opal JONES' the Minneapolis YWCA, doing
Roosevelt South
understanding Roosevelt where Negro students rarity she
job response the girls she works
only proves they willing anything they The lack
the failure of schools the field
The kids WANT do something but they don't
what
the annual Chanukah luncheon the Mime
apOs of Jewish the
Office didn't receive until this week sincerely hav
this luncheon the inspiring and
effectively affairs
the luncheon attended three years that started
ing who my treasured
friends. Drat it, I'm disappointed can be about this.
Talking luncheons-I veddy veddy and
One of nersghted She
didn't her glasses until late the afternoon She hadn't been
much attention until she the When she did
and took good look those dOubeakes
I'll give her credit she rallied like before the day
over, getting along famously.
Some the dawggonde things happen around these towns
Seasons Greetings