| Show LELLIE ELLIE I f 1 REVELL Says YEARS EARS ago when I migrated to New York from the Chicago loop I hung up my hat and unpacked my suitcase in a n small hotel And while I had many acquaintances In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York I didn't know where to find them The names of ot the streets and the telephone exchanges were all new now to me and when an un occasion arose to tomake tomake make a memorandum of a name address address address ad ad- dress or phone number while Willie conversIng conversing conversing con con- on the telephone I committed the unpardonable offense so prevalent pre among thoughtless busy people of making notations on the wall paper near the Instrument This delinquency delin quency I had hall Just naturally acquired because of my gypsy habit of being continually on the move mo One evening I 1 returned to my room to dress for dinner at nt the home of someone I was most anxious to visit and found that In my absence painters and paperhangers hind had been busy removing removing removing re re- moving every ery vestige of a memorandum memorandum memorandum dum while redecorating the walls Talk about being sunk without warnIng warning warning warn warn- ing 1 Gone was the telephone number number number num num- ber and street address of my prospective prospective prospective pro pro- hostess and as she was not listed In the bo book k my pr predicament was vas acute It was exasperating but It cured me of using the wall paper as a memo pad While In the hospital recently I had hada a somewhat similar experience I had great difficulty In keeping letters containing contaIning containing con con- addresses and other information tion After I once laid them down on the table near my bed I 1 could never tell when wilen I would meet meet them again Nurses are no respecters of routes and numbers and when they come In with dust cloth they sweep everything before them I 1 tried having hu a pencil and pad attached attacked at at- tacked to the mead head of my bed but they were so hard to reach that It Involved ringing for a nurse every ery time I wanted to copy an nn address So I conceived the Idea of making notes on the cast which encase encased my diaphragm and approached my ray chin Various and sundry addresses telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone numbers and other data did I commit to it until the da day the doctor decided m my cast should be reinforced at the particular spot pot where It was most convenient to scribble They trundled me Into the composIng composIng composing compos compos- compos compos- Ing room as the operating room should be he called and there swathed me in long wide gooey bandages wet with plaster of paris When I came cameto cameto cameto to I 1 found I had lost Trixie Friganza's route a week of Blanche Rings Ring's one- one night stands Zelda Sears' Sears telephone number three names of books I wanted want ed four words I 1 meant to look up and three Ideas for stories And this wasn't one of them 4 The singer had just finished a most pathetic ballad about Down In Georgia and Edwin Franko Goodman Goodman Goodman Good Good- man the celebrated bandmaster turned his face away to hide his pain Excuse me said his neighbor at atthe atthe atthe the concert you stem siera much affected Are you yoo a Georgian No the bandmaster replied I Iam Iam Iam am a musician Nurse In S Syracuse Breaks a Vertebrae Vertebrae Vertebrae Ver Ver- While Combing Her lier Hair said the headline last week That's a n wise crack Give her credit Wish I had thought of that one It beats the excuse I 1 have for untie mine being broken And say girls Isn't that a peach of an argument In favor of bobbed hair Below elow Is a bit of poetry In prose sent to me by an anon anonymous contrib contrib- contributor It Is the sort of thing I wish I 1 might have written myself so perfectly perfect perfect- ly it Is fashioned to carry thoughts 1 J I have always alwn's held and treasured and at times wanted to express Do not keep the alabaster boxes of ot your our love and und tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead Fill their lives with sweetness speaking approving cheering words while their ears curs can hear them therm and while their hearts can be thrilled and made hap bap pier The kind things you ou mean to say when they are ure gone sa say before I they go The flowers you mean menn to send for those coffins send to brighten and sweeten their homes before they leave them If my friends have hn alabaster alabaster alabaster ala ala- baster boxes laid away awny full of ot fragrant fragrant fra fra- grant perfumes of or S sympathy and affection affection affection af af- af- af which they Intend to break over my body I would much rather they would bring them out In my weary and troubled hours and open them that I may be refreshed and I cheered while I need it It I l would rather have Jut a plain coma coffin without a D flower a n funeral without an nn eulo eulogy y than a n life without the sweetness of ot love and sympathy Let us learn to anoint our friends beforehand for their burial burin Post-mortem Post kindness does not cheer the burdened spirit I flowers on the collin cast no fragrance backward over the weary way Anon 4 We needn't worry about bout the death of or chivalry I have btu been Informed by I I Ithe William Faversham Just as long as the man offers the woman the first light A surer furer test of ot a n gallant nature na na- na ture I believe bellee Is to olter his last cigarette o I oThe I IThe The press notices Inform me that a producer produce Is soon to try r Dear Relations Rein Rela a comedy If It most of us tried our DUI dear lear relations the they undoubtedly edly would be lie found guilty by the tho I Imo DO |
