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Show IF ADULTS TOOK ADVICE GIVEN KIDS... Howya-Doon Tells How Grownups Should Behave . . . THEY'D GET GOUT, RHEUMATISM, ULCERS Br H. I. PHILLIPS HOWYA-DOON, ADULTS? The influence of new radio (character called "Howdy-Doody" on the kiddies is the talk of the I amusement world. Howdy-Doody is a puppet on the program of Bob I Smith, and, he has come close to taking over the American home at 5 p.m. daily. Howdy manages to work in a lot of pleas for the small fry to clean their plates, mind their health and otherwise behave themselves, and we think it might be a good idea to introduce a similar simi-lar character for influencing the grownups. Our character would be an adult puppet called "Howya-Doon." and American Medical association and show what happens to adults who enjoy eating and lead happy lives. But first, did you brush your teeth this morning? HOWYA-DOON-Aw, sure, I took my uppers and lowers right out of the glass of water where I put 'em each night and gave 'em a good stiff brushing. would operate along the same pattern, pat-tern, as follows: SMITH-WeU here's your friend Howya-Doon, the friend of all grownups, again, folks. Golly, how nice it seems to be with you adults once morel I hope you've all been very nice adults and behaved yourselves your-selves in every way. Howya-Doon, did you clean up your plate today? HOWYA-DOON Aw eosh. I cer- SMITH-And what else did you do that all good grownups should do? HOWYA-DOON I put my hotwa-ter hotwa-ter bottle and my liver pads away neatly after I got up and I made sure all the bottles in the medicine cabinet were in order. SMITH That's fine. And now we're going to introduce our new character Dub-a-Dab. HOWYA-DOON Who's Dub-a-Dab? SMITH He's the wonderful adult who never grunts, seems to enjoy life and ALWAYS BEHAVES SO HIS CHILDREN CAN BE PROUD OF HIM1 Cuff Stuff j Louis Johnson is the new secretary secre-tary of defense and those who are all for a strong America hope be will not be bothered by the current cry, "Louis, drop that gun." A Moscow paper says that Russian Rus-sian soon will be a world language. No doubt it will require an alphabet alpha-bet of but two letters, "N" and "0". Travel Note: H. Truman, who was on a visit in Washington, returned re-turned to Key West. Elmer Twitchell says he would order a new $4,000 auto now, but he is waiting for it to come down IS cents. A big store chain has opened stores in New York subway. It will specialize in "jams." tainly didn't I'm not that crazy, Mr. Smith. SMITH I thought not. That's fine. What happens to adults who lick their platters clean? HOWYA-DOON-They get gout, indigestion, stomach acidity, rheumatism, rheu-matism, double chins, heartburn and everything. Gee, their diet gets all shot to pieces, Mr. Smith, and they get fat and their clothes look awful on 'em. SMITH Right. So what is the proper way for grownups to behave at meals? HOWYA-DOON-Aw, that's easy, Mr. Smith. They do Just what I do, lay off any kind of food that tastes goodl SMITH Anything that appeals to the taste, eh? HOWYA-DOON-Sure. If it's appetizing, ap-petizing, it's no good. All nice grownups who want their children to be proud of them will Just go for carrots, beets, spinach and things like that. SMITH If by chance you get something on your plate that tastes swell and that isn't fattening, is it okay to eat it all? HOWYA DOON-Aw, no I A good little adult always carries a calory chart and makes himself pretty miserable figuring up the calories in everything he eats. I hope all you grownups do this. SMITH So do I, Howya. And now it's time to show the movies. We've got some wonderful ones that are right down the alley for grownups. They are from the |