Show 0 Cm oil Streamlined Grandmothers MONICA CALIF SANTA All along Ive I've been wondering wondering wondering won won- dering what has vanished from the city landscape Id I'd grown reconciled to service stations station where blacksmith shops used to be and a where beauty parlor l lonce once the livery stable sta i ble spread its lu fuel fasci fascinating perfumes perfume s So it couldn't be y that x All of a sudden i it t dawned on me Since coming here Ive I've teen seen mighty f few ew 1912 1912 model grandmothers grandmothers bar barring i. ring In is the movies and then with the I Irvin rv In S S S- Cobb Cobb- exception of dear May Robson they had to wear makeup We dont don't so to much mind the young girl who has gone prematurely old were we're accustomed to her her but but theold the theold theold old woman who has gone prematurely prema prams surely young so young that she seems to be advertising the approach ap ap- ap p roach of second childhood by dressing to match It It well that's different So now I know what I miss Its It's the old fashioned lady who was neither streamlined nor a four col o or r process Penalties of Old Age IF IF F MENTALLY or physically or both bath a man of seventy has so slowed down he no longer can tune tune- function li tion on usefully what are we going to todo todo todo do about Secretary of State Hull Bull and Secretary Roper and Senator Glass Glassand Glassand and end Senator Norris and both California's Cal senators and a sizable proportion pro pro- p portion of the outstanding membership member member- s ship hip of either branch of congress And to avoid cluttering up the words so to speak what disposition should have been made at seventy of ot Thomas A. A Edison and John D. D Rockefeller Sr and Henry Ford and Queen Victoria and Cardinal Gibbons and Von Hindenburg and Clemenceau and Professor Eliot and Carrie Chapman Catt and r. r Mark ark Twain and Elihu Ellhu Root and Melville W. W Fuller just to mention a few names that come to mind Going still further back one gets getso to o thinking among others of HenryClay Henry HenryClay HenryClay Clay and Ben Den Franklin and Gladstone Gladstone Glad Glad- stone and Bismarck and Victor Hugo and Alexander Humboldt Open Season on Bears Dears N NEW EW Brunswick Is granting free licenses for sportsmen to kit kill 1 bears this spring I regard this a aan as asan asan s an error It reduces bears which are picturesque features of forest fores t life and Increases amateur gunner r tr barging through the wilderness plugging plug ging away at every living object t they see including guides A greenhorn greenhorn green horn might miss a sitting union unto n depot probably depot probably would would but but he garners gar ners hers him a guide nearly every every time o On all counts the black bear r should have game protection For every shoat he steals he eats thrice his weight In grubs and ants an and d bugs and hes he's a fine scavenger fo for r he likes his dead meat neat high I If It Ithe f he were a veteran member of a s Maryland Duck club he couldn't st t like it any higher Even so so he has been preyed on until In parts of our north woods hes he's practically extinct Yet next to toa t ta o a Vermont Democrat hes he's probably probably I ably the most inoffensive mammal found In New England I Tyranny of the Soviets I SEEPING through the Soviet embargo em em- embargo bargo on free speech and fre free e press and even free tree thought stories storie s came out that the year five-year plan sn n shows signs of utter collapse and also that in their striving for ab rib absolute absolute solute despotism Stalin and his his for the moment moment Intimate intimate lieutenants lieutenants lieuten lieuten- ants are preparing to liquidate by execution or remove by a wholesale campaign of at exile all such of their recent ruthless associates as might through private ambitions stand Inthe in inthe inthe the way of this latest desperate tyranny Of course we hear bear all sorts of tales about the real Inside of the Russian situation some ome inspired by hostile prejudice and some by sympathetic sympathetic sym pathetic partisans Women's New Freedom GWEN EVEN T VEN In olden days before they broke loose women envied us every masculine perquisite we had except the moustache cup and pos pos- possibly sibly chewing tobacco Since emancipation emancipation eman seems like they've taken take over practically everything we ever eve r had The bars are crowded with women women wom wom- en and acel the smoking rooms roams and the barber shops and the gambling clubs and the prize fights and ih the e wrestling matches and the political caucuses If It it weren't for them th the e rare tracks rare tracks and the night spots spot s w uld languish and end the cocktail ers nu might get an occasional rest resl Mabye as a distinguished scientist t testy arises to proclaim they could nave excelled us In our then ex fields only before this they the y didn't get a chance to prove It it IK m S. 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