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Show Thursday. October 21. 1937 THE PARK RECORD PAGE THREE IN THE PROFESP. M hi "In my business it's a virtue to teal I always have the base at lieart " "I don't believe it you can't be bo corrupt." "Yep, I'm a' baseball player." TIIE ANSWER She Next to me, what do you like test in all the world? He I like to be right next to you. COMING AND GOING "I hear that Burrows has come in -for some money." "Then he'll have to go out without it as far as I am concerned." KNOWING LESS AND LESS "It's always safest and best." "What is?". "To think that your rival knows a little more than he seems to and that you know a little less than you think you do." THE CHANGING WORLD V.r J- n. vvi'- j w -- "Is your vacation resting you?" "No. Just getting tired in new ways. ONE IN EACH FLOCK "Jack's mother used to call him ker pet lamb." "Now his old man says he's the ciack sheep." OLD MINSTREL JOKE Tattered Tom Well, let's lunch. Weary William On w'at, you fink! Tattered Tom De sand which lies w de road. TIME TO REDUCE Miss Obese Could you see me wuss the street? -viiiceman Shure. ma'am. Oi uiu see yez tin times the distance J Li! '"- --iTifil Histo ric H o a x e s CO O Cy CI MO scan WATjiON iVcitrin Nt p.ip-! Union, ' Flyiij Dutchman" O A.'.'AZlNCj r-ave been the tic e'')'ur?nts in aviat'on in recei.t wars ibid it is a brave man indeed .ho w 11 sr.ture to sv "Wbv. thev ;:n't do t! at!" vviuni told of some j ?vv fcjt in the air by man. There ore. it is rot esprcjally remark-b!c, remark-b!c, pcrliar-s. that the whole worlJ i'.x'eplcd as authentic a photograph which c:irne out of Germany a year r so e::o. it showed a man flying through the air just above and a little ahead f lour others who were running after lim. It might have been mistaken for a skier in action except for the fact that he was holding two bell like objects and apparently blowing nto them through a tube. The de scription on this photograph read: For the first time in history a man has succeeded in flying under h:s own power. This picture shows Lnch Kocher of Berlin performing that feat, followed by his excited friends. He blew into the bell-like arrangement, causing to revolve two rotors which also served as wings. On his feet was a ski landing gear, nd attached to his hips was a tail skd.'" So cleverly had the photograph o?en "doctored" that it passed for n authentic representation of an epoch-marking incident in aviation and was accepted as such yes, even by American newspapers which printed the picture with the headline, "Man's First Flight Under His Own Power." It was not until some time later that the hoax was revealed. Considering the news that has been coming out of Germany about Hitler's treatment of some of its citizens, one wonders if the "flying "fly-ing Dutchman's" name has some significance. "Kocher" could easily be mistaken for "kosher," you know! Washing the White Lions IT'S only once or twice in a cen- tury that Easter Sunday falls on April 1 but on one of those occasions the coincidence made it easy for some April Fool prankster to perpetrate per-petrate a classic hoax. In March, 1860, several thousand citizens of London were greatly flattered when they received a neatly-printed and official-looking card which bore the following inscription: "TOWER OF LONDON! Admit the bearer and friend to view the annual ceremony of washing the white lions on Sunday, April 1, 1860. Admitted at the White Gate. It is particularly requested that no gratu ities be given to the wardens and their assistants." No one had ever before heard of either the White Gate or the white lions so everyone who received one of these invitations was curious to know whether the latter were real or just statues. Children especially were thrilled at the prospect of see ing them it was just like going to the zoo. A few staid citizens were dubious about the propriety of attending such a function on Easter Sunday but that didn't bother several thou sand others who entirely overlooked the fact that it was also April 1. So they swarmed to Tower hill in han som caDS and on foot and began inquiring eagerly of the gatekeepers where the White Gate was. As soon as the gatekeepers saw the invitations they immediately recognized the hoax and they greatly enjoyed the opportunity of answering April Fool! to the ea ger inquirers. In fact, it has been suspected, although never proved that some of these gatekeepers were the perpetrators of the hoax which has become historic in England. Long Distance Taxi Ride CEVERAL years ago newspapers all over the country printed an amusing story, furnished to them by one of the press associations which told how a bibulous visitor to New York hailed a taxicab and in response to the driver's query "Where to?", replied, "Losh Ang lesh and pleash don' drive too fas'." Whereupon the taxi driver took him to Los Angeles and, ar riving there, looked at his meter and announced that the fare was $900, which the bibulous one cheer fully paid. Then, so the story ran the driver sola nis taxi ana re turned to New York by bus. It was a good story until the cab driver mentioned was located in New York and denied the whole yarn. He did admit that, during the depression, he had ioaaea nis motherless moth-erless children in his taxi and head ed west, hoping to find work some where en route. But he found that jobs were just as scarce in other oarts or the country as tney were in New York, so, when he reached California, he sold his taxicab and returned home with his children by bus. So that' much of the yarn, at least, was true. As for the tipsy passenger and the SJGO taxi fare which he paid that part of the story was invented by the press agent ror me juris yara lo which the taxi man had sold his car. That, in itself, isn't such a bad story. For who ever before i-eard of a junk yard hiring a press aient! President Fierce's Wife "Pmntrlin Piero fntirl aanili Pi'dji. dent, the Northern man with South- , ern principles, married Jane Apple- j ton of Hampton in his home state of , New Hampshire. She is said to have j been a woman of intelligence and j the highest ideals, but inclined lo I melancholy and a variety of nervous j afflictions. She had three children, ' all of whom died before her. The I tragic death of the last, a boy of thirteen, on January 5, 1853, less than two months before her husband became President, made Mrs. Pierce an invalid during her stay in the White House. The Pierces were returning from Boston to their home in Concord on a Boston & Al bany train; an axle in the car in which they were riding broke and the car rohed down an embank ment. Neither Mr. or Mrs. Pierce was seriously hurt, but the boy was killed. 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He early showed a fondness for war, joined the army of the Emperor Diocletian, and soon rose to high rank. But when the persecution of the Christians became bitter, he went to the emperor and, confessing his faith, remonstrated against his cruelty. He was immediately arrested ar-rested and suffered martyrdom April 23, 303. Around the few facts of his history many traditions and myths have gathered. Among those is the story of his slaying a dragon which had haunted a certain neighborhood and carried off beautiful maidens. According Ac-cording to one account, he is said to have reappeared nearly 700 years after his martyrdom and fought with the famous crusader, Godfrey of Bouillon, at the battle of Antioch, and to have revealed himself to Richard the Lion-Hearted at the seige of Acre, predicting the hero's victory. The latter narrative led to his being more highly honored than ever in England, of which he was the patron saint. 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