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ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— In this favdtffed land we are alow starting to celebrate the Quaternary seasonal rite of Jttwing our sununer influenza. ^Bummer influenza is distinguished ten winter influenza by the fact ix uie iormer aoes _t set In until Sep tember, thereby ig intervals spring and fall to slip in between. The symptoms re main practically the same. The eyes wa ter copiously, but the nose runs sec [end. The head stops thoroughly, thus {providing proof of the fallacy of the old Irvin Cobb adage—all sinus fall in dry weatner. The patient barks like a trained Seal, but the difference here is that the seal stops barking if you toss him a hunk of raw fish. One could go on at length, but Iff difficult to continue a writing Job when you’re using a nasal in halant to punctuate with and have • taste in your mouth like moth balls smothered in creosote dress ing. The Art of Cussing. ;"AyJY OLD chum Burgess Johnson, •|V1 once an editor but now a col lege professor, tells a credulous bunch of advertising men that Mark Twain was the champion all-time all-American cusser—could cuss five solid minutes without repeating him self. Pardon me, Burgess, but Mark Twain never did any such thing. Once I heard him at his out-cussing est best—denouncing a publisher had offended him. He swore live minutes all right, but over over again he used the same familiar oaths which the Eng g race always have | [m|i He didn’t introduce a new or an original one. I studied the art of cussing, both by note and by ear, under such gift ed masters of profanity as southern steamboat mates, New York news men, London cab drivers, mule whackers and north timber choppers. With my hand on my heart I ■nSumiyiy affirm that not one of these alleged experts ever employed any save the dependable age-seasoned standbys, to wit, seven adjectives, two strong nouns, one ultrastrong noun and one compound phrase— the commonest of all. Romance for Kins Zog. FOR about the filth time comes a plaintive plea from Albania, one of those remote little border countries ■ of eastern Europe where every now and then peace threatens to break out They have a king over there. At least they had a' king at the time of going to press with this dispatch. His name is King Zog. This is neith er a typographical error nor a vaudeville gag. The name positively 1 la Zog, and radio comedians may .make the most of it. For many months he has been paging the world for a wife. The qualifications call for the lady to have $5,000,000. His majesty would also like for her to turn Moham medan, but the main requirement is that $5,000,000 bank roll. • • • California’s Coastline. ■glTHILE it’s quite a roomy coast , VV line, California has at present only one coastline. This is a source of mortification to patriotic native sons, Florida having two such, one on either side, besides a dampish area in the middle known as the Everglades. Still, in a way, California’s silvery Strand continues to excel. Within easy speeding distance we have at least one beach resort where, when Falm Springs folds up on account of the heat, many of our artistic colony go to relax. So wholeheart edly do some go in for this that oft en you may stand off a quarter of a mile and hear them relaxing. Occasionally a relaxationist re laxes so completely that it takes .weeks for him to get over it. His friends leave him at the seaside only to gather at the bedside. The Changing World. j WT WAS Susan B. Anthony who 1 * dedicated her life to the cause of jamancipation for her sex. But it iwas her grandniece who lately at tained the headlines by suggesting (that, with the addition of a buckle there and a ribbon there, a nightie would make a suitable evening .gown tor almost, any occasion. : Thus do we see how from one gen eration on to another is handed down the flame of genius and serv ice to womankind. >/ But, although the inspired sugges tion is already weeks old, there still pfe no signs that it is finding ad vocates among the queen bees of cultural hive. Maybe the rea ls that a beUe of the Hollywood group would feel so os ten overdressed if she wore nightie to a social mviN & < Finger-Waved Hereford Cops the Blue Ribbon A yearling Hereford which scored in the recent fat stock show at Montgomery, Ala., after it had been tinge*-waved by a "beautician'* is pictured above. In the picture are Allen E. Grubbs (left), cattle breeder, A. E. Thrash, who gave the wave, Allen E. Grubb, Jr., and John Hill. Want Dimples? Device Will Make ’Em It’s simple now to have those charming dimples. All you have to do is apply this dimpling machine shown being demonstrated by Miss Evangeline Gilbert of Rochester, N. Y., on the face of Bobby Joyce of Hollywood. The device was on exhibition at the National Inventors’ con gress held in New York recently. INDUSTRY’S ADVOCATE Mrs. Anna Steese Richardson, playwright, author and associate ed itor ot Woman’s Home Companion, who has just completed a 100,000 mile trip throughout the United States, talking to women’s gr6ups and conventions, explaining the con stant efforts of industrial and busi ness research experts to perfect products for the American home and American health. Says Mrs. Richardson: “Anyone who reads the advertisements in the newspapers and magazines can see the romantic story of what industrial research and mass production have done to make this country the best on earth in which to live.” HIGH SCHOOL GRAD Edward P. Kearney, thirty-six years old, lather of two children, a successful business man, and holder of several town offices, who was one of 16 seniors graduated from the Bellows Free academy of Fair field, Vt., recently. Wins Coveted Architect’s Award Henry A. Jandl of Princeton university and Spokane, Wash., is pic tured with some of his prize-winning'work# after he was awarded the thirtieth Paris prize scholarship in architecture at the headquarters of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects in New York. Big Ones Are Biting This Fishing Season Two to* fish such as these are enough to account tor a happy smile on any fisherman’s face. Lakes and streams are yielding bigger catches than in recent years, sportsmen report, and fishermen find their angling yn.ii.1 easier when a little outboard motor eliminates the backbreaking effort of getting to the spot where the big ones are biting. i Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1—View of Number 552, new superliner that will be sister ship of the Queen Mary, now under construction at Clydebank, Scotland. 2—Phillip Murray, chairman of the Steel Workers Organizing committee addressing a massmeeting of workers during the steel strike at Canton, Ohio. 3—General scene of the Paris Inter* national exposition which opened recently. First Lady in Role of Godmother Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, holding baby Eleanor Ruth Armstrong, and Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, former TJ. S. minister to Norway, with baby Robert Furman Armstrong, pictured during the recent christening cere mony of the twin children of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Armstrong, Jr., at Washington, D. C., at which they served as godmothers. Standing be tween them is Mrs. John Nance Garner, wife of the vice president The Armstrongs are Washington newspaper correspondents. DUST BOWL WORKER Roy I. Kimmel, whom Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace has appointed to direct a long-range co ordinated program to prevent the Southwestern dust bowl from be coming a desert, in a plan which fol lows closely the recommendations of the President’s great plains com mittee in erosion prevention. MISS ECCLES TO WED A recent photograph of Miss Elea nore May Eccles, daughter of Mar riner S. Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve board, whose en gagement to Harold J. Steele, of Houston, Texas, was announced re cently. Miss Eccles is a junior at the George Washington university, Washington, D. C. Steele is associ ated with the electric home and farm authority. They will be mar ried in September. Penguins Star at Cleveland Fair These white-vested, black coated penguins are among the most popu lar attractions with crowds at the Great Lakes exposition at Cleveland this summer. Exhibited on Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic ship, the City of New York, they constitute a third of the present penguin population of the United States. Londoners Ride Buses Again After Strike ijyng queue* form at the London Bridge atation as the first buses appeared on die streets after a month* l^ng strike recently,, thus ending one of the most unpopular and unsuccessful walkouts In die history of the British trad* union movement _
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