The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-07-31
Hal Boyle Says

ler sex, time has proved different
ly. We realize you need our love
and cooperation, but how about
10 little from your sidesn
Wen. took these 10 rules over
to show them to = young bride
groom. I hated to disturb him. He
was cooking dinner. He looked over
the list, murmuring IS he stirred
q pot, 'Quite right. True indeed.
Very sound. |"
Then he said thonghtfully;
Tel me. sir are there really
husbands who go out in public
without a necktie. swear out loud,
Try to boss their wives. and stay
out late at night and spend their
money at bars2"
| had to admit that, here and
there in dark periods Of history,
such husbands existed, and there
might even be . dozen or 50 in his
own neighborhood.
"H-mmm. Now tell me. sir !"
he said. musingly. do they. .uh
4. do they get any relief. pleasure,
fun or relaxation from such
things? A young bridegroom does
have so many. many things 70
Learn"
Wen, that is when | backed out
the door fast. For I recalled the
old story of the woman who, on
leaving her kids al home while
she went on an errand. warned
them sternly, Nov, whatever you
do, don't put any beans up yogr
nose. The kids had never heard
of such thing, But naturally when
the mother returned every child
had a nose stuck full Of beans.
That's why I am against tho
Ohio housewives "Ten Golden
Rules for bridegrooms, class Of
1858. The bad ones already have
beans up their noses. But why give
the good ones the idea?
NEW YORK R-We are just
entering the real magic carpet
age.
| Before the year 1000 some Amer.
lean mother, noticing her daughter
furiously packing her suitcase on
q Saturday morning, viii ask;
Where are you going. Nary"
ITO Cairo. They're having a
MISUNDERSTANDING party there
tonight" Mary will reply Nov
don't worry. Mother. I'll be home
tomorrow afternoon "
Weekend tourists trips to the
moon probably won't be popular
until few years alter that.
1 Such ideas still sound a Bit fan
tastic To- us. But how the genera.
ton Of 1900 would have hooted If
someone had said that in 1858 air.
planes would fly the Atlantic Ocean
lin less than five hours. as two Jet
lbombers did this week in a rou.
tine journey at above 800 miles an
hour.
| Why, in 1900 only fools like those
two dreamy but Impractical Wright
brothers even thought heavier.
lthan-air machine could ever fly.
The average man knew il was
scientifically impossible.
In 1892 Christopher Columbus
took about 20 days to sail the
ocean blue and reach an island out
post of the Western Hemisphere.
III took him is days more to reach
Cuba, which he was sure must be
Japan. After four days passed with
out seeing any geisha girls. how
ever, he decided he must be In
some other part of Asia.
In 1920 it took the Pilgrim
Fathers 96 days 10 the Mayflower
to reach America, and there was
mo Grover Whalen TO greet them
Nope, just a few wild Indians, com.
.pletely uninhibited because at that
'itime they had no reservations.
As late as 1773 traveller tnary-
Iseled at the speed and ease with
(which a fellow could 90 from Bos.
ton to New York in only week,
by riding a stagecoach every day
from 4 a. M, TO 10 p. m. How
could progress go any further? To-
day you can fly the distance In
less than an hour, and you don't
lhave to get out and help push il
IF it gets stuck.
i Today the space between nations