The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-05-23
Cough Syrup and One Eight-Ba
acquaintance withwith your"
BY SUE WADA

"oh, its all right. I'll just take
swig when 1 need it,
Well, maybe there's a kitchen
somewhere :"
Remember your Doc said that two
spoonfuls were the limit
I'm"
7:30 pm. Mons throat began
to tickle. Nom took a tiny sip to
sort of start things going. Darn
thing takes half an hour to work
and working up to the full dose
might be a good idea. The tickle
disappeared till $3.50 pm. when 1t
really began TO annoy Nom and
the cough made its usual evening
appearance. So, at 8:45 PM, Nom
sneaked into a kitchen, borrowed
a spoon, and took the rest of the
dose. If Nom should ever end up
in a flop-house, this may be said
to be the beginning of the end
MONS heart frightened all of a
sudden, and then slowly the top
of her head began to sweat. Hor-
, rors, she had the DTS, whatever
that is. and If it's shaking
all over, this was it.
The chairman introduced Nom
to the audience. Feeling rather
over-heated, and frightened all
over, Nom strobe up to the spindly
table, slammed down her folder
of papers, and leaned on the frail
support. She distinctly felt ii
tremble.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think
my feet are shaking, please don't
look under the table"
A roar of laughter. Nom grinned
very happily, as she just loves q
friendly audience, and she just
binds spell around them usually
-. but this evening Nom was
bound right in the spell as much
as anyone listening
1.-THE point. the point. my
friends, the point of it is"
Nom chased the point all around
whirling brain, and finally de-
cided she would catch it the next
time around. But no matter, thu
audience seemed to find Mon
quite entertaining and informative
They laughed lot. simply
roared. it seemed to Nom, whose
! ears were buzzing, and every tint
her tongue baked at word, sht
stopped, a pause for effect sort of
while she re-focused her eyes
and tried to remember what sht
was talking about.
; Never was evacuation SO anus
ing, never was discrimination 81
hilarious! We laughed the who'll
, thing off as joke. Then Mon
| would remember something sac
: and she would feel so sad tina
l the audience gulped in silence
Then she realized time was u
. anyway, and she ought to 81
2 down, so she wound up her speed
7 with an admonition:
IF you don't stop me right nov
2 Pm liable to stay and talk a
2 night. thank you"
: Nom is trying to figure out
: she really deserved full credit 70
the thank you" speech which sal
in part:
!, g. touches of genuine humol
' so Illuminating in public address
Y =. coming from a person who
/ not of our extraction -. fluen
! languages. etc, ETC."
| Nom argues with herself: May
5 be I have got natural humol
'Tisnt the first time people hav
laughed at my remarks. Even with
! out the new cough syrup mayb
they would have laughed anyway
But what the dickens did sa
that was so funny? Was it me o
the cough syrup.
Eight balls may be rice balls t
Kitten, but for Nom, she got be
hind one eight ball. No, meat
ball. Eight-ball is the word. Blu
I II hear one meat BALI in my heac
eat-ball? no, eight-ball -. @
course. It's the radio =. tn
meat-ball, I mean -. in my heat
no, radio -. now look here, Su
Sada, did you touch that cougl
syrup"