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Show Clabout: Departed Spirits. SANTA MONICA, CALIF. Continued failure of mediums me-diums to claim the reward, offered by the late Harry Houdin, who provided a test for proof of communication with the spirit world, makes me think of a thing that happened hap-pened at the first seance ever held down in my neck of the woods. The operator was summoning the spirits of departed dear ones to nrHor. A lankv vouth out of the bottoms desired to speak with his father. Presently, a shadowy shad-owy figure appeared between the cabinet's cabi-net's dark curtains and a voice uttered muffled sounds. "Is that you, Paw?" inquired the seeker. "Yes, son." an- irvn s. Cobb swered the voice. "Paw, air you in heaven?" Seemingly startled, the ghostly apparition ap-parition hesitated a moment before be-fore giving what might be taken for an affirmative sound. "Paw, air you an angel?" demanded de-manded the son. Again an embarrassing delay, then a diffident mumble. "A regular angel with wings and everything?" Once more a low grunt. "Say, Paw," cried the youth, perking perk-ing up, "whut do you measure from tip to Up?" Matrimonial Adventures. HERETOFORE some of the authorities au-thorities have held that the first two years were the hardest in matrimonial matri-monial adventures, but the peak of the danger period for married couples coup-les is now set at the sixth year by Los Angeles' city attorney. On the side he runs a bureau for handling the funds assessed for family support sup-port against separated or delinquent parents. So he ought to know about it, if anybody does. WelL personally, I always did have the theory that no woman could stand any man for more than five years unless she got numb. After that It's just a long-distance endurance test on her side and perhaps per-haps sometimes on both sides. Senatorial Shifts NAMING no names, a little bird just In from Washington whispers whis-pers that one senator, under the influence in-fluence of alternating psychic waves or something, already has shifted three times on the plan to make the Supreme court over. First he was against It then for it then against it again, and is now threatening threat-ening to change once more. They'll be taking bets on him at Lloyd's next Once In a while we get a statesman states-man who reminds you of a hunk of country butter in an icebox-takes icebox-takes the flavor of everything near by, but not improved by any one of 'em. Maine's Statesmen. THERE Is but one answer t& the attitude assumed by both of Maine's senators, who show a pronounced pro-nounced inclination to balk at whatever what-ever the New Deal calls for in congress con-gress and especially at the plan to mold the Supreme court somewhat closer to the boy scout model. If these here foreigners don't like this country, why don't they go back where they came from? The Game of Poker. pALIFORNIA'S attorney general decides that draw poker, unless played as a percentage game, is not gambling. Had he gone deeper Into the sub-jeot, sub-jeot, he might have ruled that draw poker, as generally played nowadays, nowa-days, is not even a game. What veteran vet-eran would call it anything except a sacrilege against an ancient and once honorable sport when folks are free to introduce at will such abominations abom-inations as deuces wild or one-eyed jacks or barber's itch or spit in the ocean? To draw honest cards; to try to play the other fellow's chances as well as your own; to try to figure when to raise and when to call and when to quit; to try to pick the right moment for bluffing, since the bluff fs the real soul of the thing that's poker, my masters, an American-born American-born pastime, hallowed with age, ennobled by usage, beloved of the fathers. IRVIN S. COBB. e-WNU Service. |