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Show 21about: This Changing World. NEW YORK. They say poker is dying out, its place being taken by bridge, a game played with 52 cards and frequently, as between partners, with fully 52 times that many harsh words. I look for a revival of tit-tat-toe. You can quarrel over that, too. And out on the dude-ranches, old cowhands, who once were almost rough with heifers and calves, are being be-ing schooled in discreet dis-creet love - making and other romantic exercises to qualify them for celebrating Be Good to Debutantes Debu-tantes week next summer. And it no longer excites national interest in-terest when the La f 1 si- I Sit j ;r.,,.,r..i 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. T OS ANGELES may have its drawbacks (loud cries of "no!" from all native sons, including the foreign-born ones), but she certainly certain-ly spoils a fellow for the clinker-laden, 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 he'd been cleaning out a soft-coal stove. New York is nothing to brag on, either. Leave a snow-white pup out over night and he could pass for a Dalmatian. Yet heating engineers say that proper smoke consumers would produce pro-duce 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 don't care a dern? Or possibly the citizens fear they might collapse their lungs and choke to death did they start breathing breath-ing something remotely resembling fresh air? Cruelty to Wives. M AYBE you'll remember it was in all the papers the lady who got a divorce in Chicago some time back by alleging that on the Fourth of July her husband assailed as-sailed 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 woman's anguish if, through the last political campaign, her husband hus-band 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 com-pelled her to listen on the radio to the average professional broadcaster broad-caster on football games, especially the rapid - fire descriptionist who talks all at once and gets so excited himself that the game, in comparison, compari-son, seems but a tame and commonplace com-monplace aflairl That would indeed be cruel seasonal sea-sonal suffering for any wife. Outwitting the Laundry Man. SEEING a Pullman porter pry open a car window with one of those burglars' tools which Pullman porters carry for that purpose gave me an Idea. I'm going to buy one to use on dress shirts when they come back from the laundry with the little flaps on the collar band cemented down over the back button hole. The laundries may claim it's starch, but I know better it's concrete and high-grade concrete at that It acts like it and tastes like it, as you may have noticed on licking same. With the aid of this happy device, I shall save my nervous system, my salivary juices, my fingernails and if profanity be a grievous sin probably my immortal soul as well. But I don't suppose anything can be done about the eighteen or twenty pins with which every efficient effi-cient laundry hand pins up a dress shirt before delivering. And perhaps per-haps we'd better not try it would reduce the consumption of pins in this country by from one-half to two-thirds, and goodness knows the industrial balance is already upset IRVIN S. COBB. WNU Service. |