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Show jjpl Moving Finger "The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on: nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." Omar Khayyam j. j. a. A y tors' and nurses' knowledge and skill, the milk of human kindness, and funds to keep things going all available, and doing a wonderful wonder-ful job; but it's up to us to keep the money coming in. Just put it in an envelope, mark it "Polio," add a 3-cent stamp, and the willing will-ing staff at the post office will get it where it's needed. Heavens, it's time for my hairdo; hair-do; and this is one case where a short-cut isn't a time saver! G'bye, now. This is a fine time for me to be trying to write a column . . . First thing, this morning, comes a man to sell me on the idea of having my youngun's shoes bronzed. I mean their baby shoes, naturally; having 'em bronzed at this stage would amount to a contract, not a job. Well, I didn't have them bronzed, but I'd just as well have never got another thing done all morning. Just went down into the gas chamber, (furnace room to you) and got all the baby shoes, rompers, headless dolls, dog-eared story books, etc., belonging to all three of 'em as infants, and sat down and had a good cry. Why? Lord knows. Why do women cry at weddings, or when someone gives them a present, or when junior graudates from the ninth grade? You tell me that one, and I'll tell you why it makes a woman so mad to see another woman in a hat like hers. Funny thing if my husband ever came home and said "Heavens. I was never so mortified in my life I went to Lions club tonight, and there was DeVon Ford, in a pair of grey cavalry twill trousers, ALMOST EXACTLY EXACT-LY like mine!" I'd think he was balmy . . . But when I come home from a Jaycee dance and bawl because be-cause the new formal I spent all " day finding is "Just like Mrs. Mc-Snatch's, Mc-Snatch's, only hers has a dipping hemline and covered buttons, and it's that sort of bluish green, and mine is red!" Friend Husband had better be sympathetic, but good, and if he's smart he better suggest that I go get another one, too. Women are funny. Yipes! There goes that tooth a-gain a-gain I gotta go to the dentist; and as my dear friend Little Ab-ner Ab-ner says, I druther be dead It isn t that I don't like the dentist, out of his office he's a real nice guy. But when I get in that chromium-trimmed, chromium-trimmed, leather-upholstered, gadget-hung, deluxe model Hot Seat, and he gets his thumb comfortably lodged under my right tonsil, after gagging me with ten yards of cotton cot-ton batting and administering a Mickey Finn, and the 3ack-hammer starts breaking up the neam.el-Well, neam.el-Well, it's the end of a beautiful friendship. Till I get out of the chair, that is; then Dr. Jeykyll turns back into Mr. Hyde and I'll speak to him again. Not that 1 haven't been speaking to him all the time, only just swear words Well, old girl, you know the old saying: When you gotta go, you eotta go. You know your teeth Ire in bad shape-both of 'em-so 'em-so be a big girl, and run along to the dentist. Maybe he 11 have a magazine you haven't read, that a be SOME consolation. Doubtful though; you been reading since the fall of 1917 ... Why and where dc doctors and dentists dig up all those old magazines? One gooc thfng about it, though-if you car get through the literature in s waiting room, you can get througr anything . . . Doctors and dentists i, the craziest people. I love em There is no nobler profession thar ministering to the ailing and com plaining populace. But I still lik( hem bette? outside office hours except when I hurt wo family hurts . . . and I J111,1111!' NOW Ih ih uhn, lgh ack here hce? Okay; I surrender. I'll com. along quietly, doctor. Just sto that damned infernal drilling . . Ouch! Certainly I bit your thumt silly; if I put MY thumb m YOUI mouth, wouldn't X Oh. That's right YOU RE 1H1 DOCTOR. Gee . . speaking of doctors . . have you all dug down deep for th polio fund? Guess you all kno that we have several youngster from our town suffering from it Home getting better, some not s good, poor littles. If you've eve been up to the children's hospital and Hften what can be done for th victims of polio, you realize 1 much good your money docs. Doc |