Show Lights Le ilg h ts of 0 f New N ew York fork Y or k TRUMBULL By RU WALTER It wasn't so many years ago that the majority of ot children In the United States never ne had seen an airplane Now there Is scarcely a achild achild achild child who Tho doesn't know all nil about airplanes but do you OU realize that there are many children who never have seen a ae street car I didn't realize It It until some one spoke of ot it In many sections busses have taken over oer the problem of ot transportatIon transportation transportation trans trans- have become common carriers to the extent that even the theold theold theold old street rails have crumbled to red rust There Is Is for tor example a Ii small town In Maryland nd where two time old street cars rest dusty and lifeless In a decrepit barn The children children children chil chil- dren go to see them much as they might might might-go go to see a cannon used in inthe inthe the Civil ll war They call them street wagons Speaking of airplanes my wife Mr 11 and Mrs S. S B. B Kent of Port Washington and Dwight Morrow v Jr of ot Amherst college who were recent recent re reo re- re cent passengers on a transcontinental transcontinental plane all aU appear to have been well satisfied with the meals served en route I am nm told that for lunch each passenger was given a ahard ahard ahard hard boiled holled eg egg some sandwiches an apple a peach and a piece of ot cake cale which seems ample I hope they didn't throw the peach lach stones overboard I should hate to be hit by a peach pit dropped from the height at which I last saw that plane It would be considerably worse than thun trying to catch a baseball baseball baseball base base- ball thrown from the Empire State building Did you ever eer hear about the time they they got got Robinson Robin Kobin- son sou to tr try to 0 catch a baseball dropped from flom a low flying baby haby blimp The rumor is that Instead of a baseball some one with a distorted distorted distorted dis dis- sense of ot humor dropped a arille aripe aripe ripe rille orange Several of m my friends this summer summer summer sum sum- mer have adopted the college fash- fash Ion of going without hats Not only is this hard on check room attendants attendants attend attend- ants but hut It leads to complications One of ot these hatless h heroes roes went into a department store to buy something for his wife at wife at least he claimed It was for tor his wife At any rate a woman approached him and demanded to know where cold creams were kept He told her that as far as he knew they were vere generally generally gen gen- emIly kept In Ia a bath cabinet This answer didn't satisfy her and she reported him to somebody with the result that he might have ha lost a aJob ajob ajob Job In that store If It he had happened happened hap hap- to have one I once was In to Ina ina toa a store m myself without a hat I had worn one In In but a salesman had taken It away to put a new band on it which my wife declared declared de de- Glared It needed neede Personally I thought the old band baud was all right but we had compromised on a n new ono one A man came in and asked me for a hat hat suitable to wear at the seashore I almost had him sold on ona a n a handsome high silk topper when the salesman came back and ruined er e everything Bruce Druce Barton has been telling me about the interesting things which may be seen In the tho patent office at Washington a place I never have visited He Be said that there was a amodel amodel amodel model there of ot a swivel chair such as ns used to be seen In all lawyers' lawyers offices and If It 1 I 1 remember correctly correct correct- ly he told me the patent on It had first been taken out by Thomas Jet Jef ferson terson refillable Non-refillable bottles ni app pear to be the Inventions on which most patents have been granted I believe that one patent actually was granted oa on a perpetual motion machine ma ma- chine The new West side viaduct certainly certainly certainly has speeded up traffic between between between be be- tween Twenty third street and the Battery and as soon as ns this is hitched up with the speedway they have been building along the edge of ot the Hudson the result should be bea a real ll help lp to midtown congestion as ns all through traffic undoubtedly will take the new llew route I know a musical elevator boy bow He Ite tells me that he has p 11 great Idea He Is working on a scheme for a n musical typewriting machine I beHee believe believe be be- lieve He that every time you punch a aI akey akey I key e it rings a bell with a different different differ differ- ent tone sort of ot on the order of ot an xylophone This would be the toe one thing needed to put the finishing touch to the ordinary noises of ot a newspaper office And in n the offices offices of ot- of musical comedy producers producer every stenographer would be a composer com com- poser L c cX 1931 1911 Dell Deli Syndicate |