Show what ai bb co chinks about this changing world EW YORK they say N NEW poker is dying out its place being taken by bridge a game played with 52 cards and f frequently as between partners with fully 52 times that man many y harsh words I 1 look next for a revival of ti tit t tat toe you can quarrel over that too and out on the dude ranches old cowhands who once were almost rough with heifers heffers and calves are being schooled in discreet love making and other romantic exercises to qualify them for celebrating be good to debu deb week next summer and it no longer longe r excites national interest when the plaintiff in a breach irvin S cobb of promise suit or even a suit for alimony is a man or at least such is the impression which his lawyer in addressing the jury would create soot laden cities LOS LO S ANGELES may have its drawbacks loud cries of no from all native sons including the foreign born ones but she certainly spoils a fellow for the clinker laden smut freighted atmosphere of many other cities take chicago where the weather bureau if so inclined frequently might report a two inch fall of soot or pittsburgh where a chap comes home for a week looking as though hed been cleaning out a soft coal stove new york is nothing to brag on either leave a snowwhite snow white pup out over night and he could pass for a dalmatian yet heating engineers say that proper smoke consumers would produce such saving in fuel cost as to pay for themselves in about one year can it be these big city folks would rather not save money or just naturally dont care a dern or possibly the citizens fear they might collapse lungs and choke to death did they start breathing something remotely resembling fresh air cruelty to wives MAYBE f remember it was in all the papers the lady who got a divorce in chicago some time back by alleging that or on the fourth of july her husband assailed her with firecrackers on thanksgiving day he threw a turkey at her and on christmas morning he beat her up with a christmas tree but assume the union had lasted until now you can imagine the poor womans comans anguish if through gh the last political campaign her husband had made her read all the polls taken on the election by the inspired outfits that did take polls and through that period had compelled her to listen on the radio radi 0 to the average professional broadcaster on football games especially the rapid fire who talks all at once and gets so excited himself that the game in com comparison parl seems but a tame and commonplace mon place affair that would indeed be cruel seasonal suffering for any wife outwitting the laundry man alan S a pullman porter kopen p pry ry a car window with one of those burglars tools which pullman porters carry for that purpose gave me an idea i I 1 im going to buy one to use on dress shirts when they con come I 1 e back from the laundry with the little flaps on the collar band cemented down over the back button hole the laundries may claim its starch but I 1 know better its concrete and high grade concrete at that it acts like it and tastes taste s like it as you may have noticed on licking same with wit h the aid of this happy device I 1 shall save my nervous system my salivary juices my fingernails and if profanity be a grievous S sin in probably my immortal immo artal soul as well but bu t I 1 dont suppose anything can be done about the eighteen or twenty pins with which every efficient laundry hand pins up a dress shirt before delivering and perhaps wed better not try it would reduce the consumption of pins in this country by from one halt half to two thirds and goodness knows the industrial balance is already upset IRVIN S COBB k 6 service Str vic |