? ? Babblin' About ?
I Had Lipstick On My Collar
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? J. P. Brady
IF SHAVES ABC CLOSER
I'M NOT HAVING ANY
There was lipstick on my collar!
Horrified, I ran an investigating
finger over the glob of red cos
metic as I stood in front of the
bathroom mirror.
Man! What a rough situation
for one who had just come In the
house for lunch and had dropped
into the bathroom for an Inno
cently sanitary wash of the hands
? and for one, incidentally, who
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I had no Idea of how the lipstick
got on his collar.
I blinked my eyes but the glob
of red was still there ? as incon
spiclous as a four-inch wart on the
nose.
i
"Jsunch is ready." the wife called
from the kitchen.
Her announcement faded all
hope of a rapid shirt change.
I almost panicked.
"You'll j\ist have to face up to
it like a man," I told myself,
"the lipstick is there and that's
that."
As I walked toward the kitchen
and the impending and obviously
unavoidable showdown that was
about to unfold, I mentally moved
into a dingy hotel room ? an out
cast.
Bravely I strolled into the
kitchen as my thoughts placed
me in a divorce court with a
lawyer holding up the tell-tale
shirt, scornfully pointing me out
as a cad ? my wife grimly con
soling my young son in another
corner of the courtroom, the
latter humming a macabre tune
called, "He Done Us Wrong."
And just then ? as these
thoughts almost possessed me ?
the solution dawned. "Go on the
offensive immediately," a little
voice advised.
"Look honey," I began, point
ing to my collar, "Lipstick."
"Really," she observed frostily,
"who'd want to kiss you?"
"Well, maybe the laundry . .
X started.
"Nope," she interrupted, "I
washed that shirt myself."
"Well, maybe you brushed up
against it this morning," I offered
with a jovial smile that would
have won sweepstakes honors at
an undertakers' convention.
"I didn't have lipstick at that
hour."
Completely unnerved, I sat
down.
"What's for lunch, hon?" I
harped on a new vein of conver
sation.
( "Lipstick collars a la mode!"
"Now wait a minute," X protest
Review Of 1954 Projects
Features Auxiliary Meet
A review of 1954 projects feat
ured a meeting of the V.F.W.
Auxiliary Monday night at the
post home on Palmer Street.
Mrs. Annie Laurie Welch, tree
surer, reported $287.04 raised dur
ing the year from a number of
projects, Including a rummage
sale, benefit bridge parties, and
the annual "Buddy Poppy" sale.
The year's expenditures Includ
ed $64.83 for hospital tray favorp.
prizes, and other gifts; $70.66 for
rehabilitation; $44 for contribu
tions to the auxiliary cancer fund i
and the March of Dimes; $42.36
for community service projects,
including six chairs and a table
at the new health center for use
by small children.
Other projects Included spon
soring a "Gold Star Mothers'
Tea," sending gifts quarterly to
Caswell Training School, and at
tending church in a group on
Memorial Day.
|ed as the head of my household.
"Don't yell, daddy." commanded
two-year-old Steve from his high
chair.
. . I've got no idea where |
that lipstick came from," X con- ,
eluded.
And then my wife smiled. An
unusually sweet smile consider
ing the recent turn of events.
"I know where you got the lip
stick," she disclosed tartly, "It
rubbed off the baby's cheek when
he hugged you as you came in
the door."
I looked at Steve in his high
chair. Sure enough, a faint smear
of red where he had been kissed
by his mother was on his cheek
"Don't yell, daddy," he com
manded, splattering the wall with
applesauce.
"Eat your lunch, dear," the
wife said.
"I think I've lost my appetite,"
I answered.
A 19SS budget of $373 25 was
accepted by the auxiliary. It was
prepared by Mrs. Clyde Slagle.
chairman, who also reported (01
the trustees.
Mrs. Beatrice Finger was named
to serve on the Youth Activities
committee (or the year. Mrs. Lasca
Horsley, chairman of Ways and
Means, put Mrs. Sally Clark and
Mrs. Mary Lou Salain in chargc
of finding fund raising project
by the next meeting.
A note from a patient at Oteen
Hospital was read, thanking the
auxiliary for a Christmas gift.
The next meeting will be held
at the home of Mrs. Lucille Angel,
with Miss Ruth McCollum as co
hostess. on February 14.
Refreshments were served after
the business session by Mrs.
Kathryn Ragan and Mrs. Leeida
Sutton.
Cowee P. T. A.
Scheduled Tonight
The regular meeting of the
Cowee P. T. A. is scheduled to
night (Thursday) at 7:30 at the
school, it has been announced.
The Rev. M. W. Chapman, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church,
will have charge of the devotion
al.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY IS, INS
Holly Springs
Talks Projects
By MISS MILDRED CORBIN
(Community Reporter'
Discussion of two projects ? a
basketball court and the painting
of signs ? marked Monday night's
meeting of the Holly Springs
Rural Community Development
Organization.
The men of the Community
plan to meet at the community
building Saturday to work on the
two projects.
T. H. Fagg, county agent, and
Mrs. Jessie D. Cabe, assistant a
gent, appeared on the program.
Mr. Fagg showed slides on road
side beautifiteation.
Harry Kinsland, S. W. Winkle
\>lack, Fred Deal, Jack Cabe, Gar
land Shepherd, and Walter Tay
lor were selected to cooperate with
the new Farm and Home De
velopment Program.
The group voted to given one
tenth of last year's earnings to j
the church.
Lyman Gregory Gets
Air Force Discharge;
Now At University
Lyman Gregory. Jr., son of Mi.
and Mrs. Lyman Gregory, of
Gneiss, was discharged from the
U. S. Air Force with the rating
of airman first class on December
24. He Is now enrolled at the
University of Georgia, Athens.
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