Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-05-23


this time the getting into our swil
30. Just bear with us, please.
While we are in the mood,
we'll offer our apologies to the
Damascus EIomemakers for over
looking their Part in the How
to put in Upper exhibit at the
annual Homenakers Council.
Who goofed is not quite clear
me OF the home demonstration
office - WHERE was the sign?
But from my own experiences
with zippers l feel that anyone
who can put one in is a genius
and anyone who can teach this
complicated maneuver deserves
all the credit coming. So Damas-
Gus HomemakerS, we salute you.
We are also in the mood to
mutter some unkind words on a
few subjects. No one - but no
one - has ever been able to give
us satisfactory reason why both
the main routes between Rock
vile and Washington have to be
torn up at the same time.
Rockville Pike in particular is
Murder! Bumpy! Ouch! On top
of that there is this here now
white line that is supposed to
run down the center of the road.
Instead it takes off every now
and then and goes wandering all
over the place and anyone silly
enough to follow it will end up
in the ditch.
Then there are the dust pockets
which of course coincide with the
narroweSt stretches. Flying
blind, you creep along with oil
drums cautioning you from one
side and big trailer trucks zoom-
ing at you on the other.
The result is that after driving
this route at night you park your
car, crawl into bed and go right
on driving all night long. This
doesn't improve your early morn
ing trance at all. Add half a
glass of baby formula for break
fast and your day is ruined before
it starts.
Don't go way. I've hardly
started. We now have catalep-
tic cat. Catalepsy is an immob-
ilized state sometimes induced by
a traumatic experience. In his
case it came from sticking his
nose into the attic fan. Curio-
sity didn't kill him but it sure
nicked him.
The combined racket of a fan
with a bent blade and a cater
wauling cat of course took place
in the middle of the night so that
the whole family suffered sew
ere case of shock.
The cat, after we dug him out
from under the sofa and made
sure he had no serious wounds,
planted his four paws in the mid
die of the, living room rug, shut
his eyes and stood there And
stood and stood.
He obviously wanted no part
of a world where sneaky mon
sters of fans could pounce just
like that on poor little unsus-
pecting cats. After an hour we
gave up and went back to bed.
He has now taken up residence
at the foot of the stairs and
spends hours glaring balefully at
the ceiling. He also witches at
every noise. Since at our house
noises are plentiful and for the
most part loud, you can see he's
in bad way.
Anyone know of a good cat
psychiatrist? The chief qualifi-
cation is that his office be air
conditioned - with NO fans.
The Waleski menagerie - ]
use the word advisedly = has re-
Gently been increased by two gold
fish and an ant colony.
The ant colony, believe it or
not, is deliberate. The stores are
full of things that other people
use to get rid of ants but at our
house we go out of our way to
cultivate them.
1t took many hours of study,
trips to the Rockville Library,
musing, meditation, and some
real hard work involving plastic
slides, food jars, medicine bottles
and much tape to produce this
ant colony.
Unfortunately it didn't stop
there. 1t also took large mum
Der of real live ants and bunch
of horrible little white things
called eggs.
All winter long l had looked
with approval at this father
and son busy-business; a nice
cozy do-it.together project,