Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, August 18, 1949
FIRST LADY OF THE GARDEN
HOSE
Oh, Can You See by the Lawn's Early Blight?
BATTLES FOR TH E TH IR STY
BLADES
By H. I. PHILLIPS
MISS PRIDGETT'S LAWN
the tiniest yellow patch.
TN AN Y PROLONGED d ry spell
* there is in every com m unity the
man and woman who find an out*
let fo r a fu ll expression of th e ir
sense of sa crifice in all-out so lici
tude for the lawn. Here they make
the ultim ate e ffort, the grand fight,
the supreme battle. T he ir heart
bleeds fo r every blade of grass.
They are shaken to the depths by
In our neighborhood Miss Ara
bella P ridgett is easily tops as
the great lawn lover. In any
m oderately dry spell she can
go to extremes, but In a real
drought, when the reservoirs
are low and the w ater supply
c ritic a l, she is a study in devo
tion to the eause of the ever-
dam p lawn. Then she becomes
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Her lawn is an astoundingly v iv id
green when everything else in
hollyhock heights is sere and drab.
You can see her busy about it
m orning, noon and night, every
fib e r of her being a s tir over the
thought one little blade m ay be
th irs ty . She is haunted by a fe ar
of d ry patch. One hose is not
enough. Miss P rid g e tt has two. And
her second love is the sp rinkle r.
She likes the wide, full-throated,
fast-revolving
type.
When not
w atering the law n she goes w in
dow shopping fo r new autom atic
s p rin k le r models.
• • •
A grand canal mood m arks her
premises. “ I t A in 't Gonna Rain No
M ore” is her theme song. She
shoots the w aterw orks not only on
d ry hot days but even when it
rains. H er fa ith in Providence and
the elements is shaky. L et it ra in
all n ig ht and she is out there w ith
the hose in the m orning.
M iss P rid g e tt’s slogan is “ The
HOSE m ust go o n !”
• • •
Yoo hoo, move the la rg e r s p rin k
le r over a foot, la d y! There’s a
I blade there that seems undrenched
• • •
H itle r's yacht
A in 't so hacht;
So w hacht!
In a v is it to the G rille , once the
yacht of der fuehrer, we are sure
we should
im agine
that
great
nautical figure, that w onderful ex
ponent of a ll fine sea traditions,
rollin g and p itching in a te rrific
storm and bellow ing “ AU ls lost!
The m icrophone has been swept
a w a y l"
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•
I go Io t b t movies, ami u b a l Jo
I
Romane« an J romane«, an J m o rt
ol il y«l.
I turn on lb« raJio, I go Io a show—
Mor« mushing between a Jam«
a tc b m o i,
I pick up a p u lp or I p ,ck „p
shek—
Again it’s a rooster (basing a
chick.
It's m ost revolting; it makes me ill__
Cause I'm a Jack w ith ou t a Jill
— T o m W eatherly
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•
The A m e rican association of uni
versity professors upholds the rig h t
of all teachers to be comm unists
provided they keep it out of the
classrooms. This is lik e saying it
is all rig h t to c a rry lighted m atch
es in a hay lo ft provided only good
w ill is shown tow ard the barn.
We liked B ill Vaughan's crack in
his K.C. Star colum n: “ The woman
scorned is now surpassed in fu ry
by the babe who never even m et
the guy, but shoots h im anyw ay.“
to the H ousew ife
Frosting Cakes
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a firs t lady of the garden hose,
a duchess of the sp rinkle r. The
lawn Is her fir s t thought a l
dawn and her last at night.
• • •
Famous battlers for great human
causes have shown less energy.
Fighters to ease the p light of un
dernourished peoples have shown
no greater energy. Yes, a w ater
fam ine is threatened, fa m ilies are
urged to go easy, orphan asylums
and hospitals have been cautioned
to watch the outlets, but w ith Miss
P ridg ett her grass ls a “ m ust,
w ith top p rio rity . Lincoln showed no
greater concern fo r the
slaves.
Clara Barton was no m ore zealous
fo r the sick and wounded.
• • •
She was m arked. Her m other was
frightened by a bare patch in a
green hall runner or something.
She has a bare-patch complex.
Were she w ith Noah In the flood,
she would have come aboard the
ark w ith two lengths of hose and
two sprinklers.
Item s o f Interest
AROUND
>h. HOUSE
Ink Spots
I f you c a n 't get to an in k spot
im m e d ia te ly , m ix up a w o rk a b le
paste o f m ilk and c o rn m ea l.
C ove r the spot lib e r a lly w ith the
paste and le t it s ta y 12 h ou rs— at
le a s t o v e r n ig h t- b e fo r e sw eeping
it up.
F o r Rainy Days
In ra in y w e a th e r, la y a large-
size desk b lo tte r Just in sid e the
fro n t d oo r so th a t w et overshoes
and galoshes can be put on it.
When the ra in stops, the b lo tte r
can be ro lle d up and ke pt in the
h a ll closet.
E D D IE CANTOR
behind a glass screen, seen but not
heard. Cantor, used to theatre
crowds, brought them into the open,
then developed the pre-program
show, to get the crowd into the
rig h t mood before the show went
on the a ir. F o rm a t of “ Take I t or
Leave I t ” rem ains the same, w ith
those $64 questions.
B ill Goodwin, playing a m ovie
producer in W arners’ “ I t ’s a
G reat Feeling,” lies and lies
and lies—in an oversized double
bed, in a pullm an berth, in a
law n swing and on a chaise
lounge. He’s supposed to be ex
hausted fro m being harassed by
Dennis M organ’s and Jack Car-
son’s e fforts to try to make an
actress out of D oris Day, cast
as a studio waitress.
“ Where Men Are Men” m arks
Chester C onklin’s 310th picture in
n e a rly 37 years; he’d have made
m ore i f he hadn’ t re tire d fo r eight.
Then he came back strong. You
w ill see h im in the h ilarious “ M y
F rie n d Ir m a ” soon.
P u b lic ity tie-ups are queer things.
S hirley M ay France, 16-year-old
m iss who aim s to sw im the Eng
lish channel, w ill do it as an
am phibious press agent fo r Edw ard
S m a ll’ s h isto rica l
opus,
“ B lack
M a g ic.” A country-w ide personal
appearance to u r is scheduled after
she comes home, plus some radio
appearances, then she’ll be groomed
fo r a screen career.
Koo¿-#¿rf
MAKES \o B\G.COVO
M ailin g Candy, Nuts
C andy and n uts sent th ro u g h
the m a ils can be k e p t fre sh and
w hole if th e y 're packed in m ason
ja rs . O r. open an o rd in a ry tin can
a lm o s t a ll the w ay. e m p ty it a.id
wash th o ro u g h ly ; then lin e the in-
in s id e w ith w axed p a p e r, f ill it
w ith nuts and ca nd y and secure
the lid w ith a dhesive tape.
STEARNS
ILICTRIC
ss
RAT & ROACH
PASTE
tofelLS. a n d
Simple Lines M ake
r w
Dress Easy Sewini
J
ONE would have believed
N ’O ‘ R ay
Sharon capable of strata
they were a h a lf hour on the road.
“ We’d better take the old road
through the woods,” he said. “ I t
w ill shorten the journey by five
m ile s.”
Sheila thought this would be a
good idea. They le ft the m ain high
way and cut through the woods.
But neither anticipated that the
storm would reach such propor
tions. Two m iles from the highway
they got stuck.
Ray d id n ’t m ince m atters.
He
confronted the situation squarely.
The chances were even that both
would perish. A t any rate, he had
something he wanted to ask Sheila
in case he did n ’t get a chance later
on.
He asked it. Sheila thought
of m any things, among them
w hat a ninny she’d been. Ray
was the man she loved, the only
R H E U M A T IS M ?
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HERE'S G O O D N E W S ',----- 1
LAST
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Crazy W ater C ry tu lt givr
almuti miraculout benefit $
to sufferers from rheuma
tism, a r th ritis , n e u ritis ,
a n d s to m a c h disorders
caused or ag g rava ted by
poor elimination Money-
back gu aran tee If your
d ru g g is t d o esn 't stock,
send Si. 25 for I-lb. boa.
C ra zy W a te r C om pany,
M im r il W e l l s , l» « .t
C R AZ
How
You
Y^TALS
SLEEP
Tomorrow Night
—w ithout being awakened
I f you ro forced up nightly berauae of urgau,
do thio: Start taking FO LE Y P IL L S for
Hluggiah Kid nay a. Tnay purge kidneys of
waetee. they soothe those irritations causing
those urges. Also allay backaches, leg pains,
painful passages from kidney inaction. Unleaa
y ”ut«i‘* P Bl1 n‘f ht ‘«morrow night D O U B L E
V o iJ It M O N E Y HACK. A t your druggist.
Wilkinson
man she could ever love. W ith
death sta rin g her in the face
she realized this to be a fact.
She put her a rm s around Ray’s
neck and told him e xactly how
she felt.
An hour la te r Sheila dropped off
into a doze. When she awoke she
was ly in g on a couch before a blaz
ing fire . Ray was feeding her hot
soup.
No one could have believed Ray
Sharon capable of stratagem . He
was
too
d e fin ite ly
catalogued.
Which is why not even Sheila sus
pected that he had planned it a ll;
that he knew about the camp, had
stocked it w ith firew ood and pro
visions, had stalled his car on pur<
pose, had rem oved most of the fuel.
I t had required a courage which
he had never suspected he pos
sessed to cash In on his assets.
gem. One look at h im and you
would have catalogued h im in the
reserved, conservative class of
young men who adhered to the ac
cepted patterns
dictated by pro
p rie ty and con
vention. He was
a good looking
b o y w ith soft
brown eyes and a sensitive mouth.
He w orked as a clerk in the South-
p ort T ru st Company. There was a
future there fo r him .
I t occurred not even to Ray that
the fine reputation he had could be
used as an asset, cashed in on. Not,
that is, u n til P hil C la irm o n t came
to town.
C lairm o nt had been born in
Southport. A t 18 he had gone o ff to
college and not returned. He had
been a football hero, an A ll-A m e r
m S S W O H D P IIH IE
ican quarterback. A fte r graduation
he had sold bonds and coached
football teams and w ritte n m aga
zine a rticles on g rid iro n tactics
and given a series of lectures over
ACROSS
DOW N
19. Steal
the radio. He had made quite i
1. Abraham 's
1. Noticeable 20. Claw
success.
w ife (Bib.)
2. Eager
22. B iblical
Two w inters la te r P h il re
5. A cavern
3. Im prudent
c ity
turned to his home town fo r the
9. C ulture
4. Rugged
23. An aro
C hristm as holidays. The folks
medium
m ountain
m atic herb
gave h im quite a reception.
10. Below
crest
26. Tablet
They held parties fo r h im and
(naut.)
5. C ry
28. P erforin
11. F ail
asked him to ta lk a t this
of a
29. T errible
to win
function and that. He stayed
crow
30. R ive r
12. C arry on,
6. A w ing
through New Y e a r’s, which
iB e lg .)
as w ar
7. Fashion
32. Cut. as
was longer than he intended.
13. Ten times
8. Pitchers
grass
The reason that he stayed was
eight
13.
34. F olio
Sheila F arnsw orth, who taught
19. Canton
(abbr.)
the seventh grade.
(Sw itz.)
14.
39. O f the
Sheila was a native of Southport.
17. Presiding
co un try
She had wheat-colored h a ir and
Elder
16.
36., Eat away
blue eyes.
She had knewn Ray
(abbr.)
37. Eog
Sharon a ll her life. She like d him .
18. N ot
When they grew up and Ray be
flippant
gan ta king her around, she was
21. Burden
quite happy.
24. E x tin c t bird
p H I L C LA IR M O N T m et her at
(N . Z.)
29. A s trip of
*
one of the m any parties that
leather
were held in his honor. He rem em
27. Hen
bered who she was and was quite
31. Herd o f
surprised th a t she had grown up
whales
and blossomed into something that
33. G irl's name
was easy to look at.
34. L ib e rty
Sheila was, a fte r all, only a nor
38. Music note
m al g irl.
P h il C la irm o n t was
39. Belonging
famous. When P h il took an Interest
to us
in her she was flattered. I t gave
40. Less
her a recognition th a t most any g irl
cold
would have delighted in. No one
43. Caeser’s
blamed her. No one condemned her
capital
fo r it. I f anyone fe lt about it at
46. Top of
b uilding
a ll i t was a sensation of envy. A
47. Jewish
few wondered about Ray Sharon.
m onth
A sm aller few fe lt so rry fo r him .
48. Borneo
Occasionally she saw Ray and
Philippine
thus It happened that one w in try
sea
n ig ht Ray and Sheila set out in the
49. River (Sib.)
fo rm e r’s coupe fo r the distant town
90. Back o f
of M erkdale to attend a banker’s
the foot
ball there. I t began to snow before
P U Z Z L E NO. 13
a
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from
r
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By
Richard
a a » » w
[ s u f f e r in g
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•
There’s good news in the eco
nom ic picture. A sligh t slump is
reported in the slight slump.
RAY CASHES IN
BRAND
IM I i LM.H r a t s
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•
The active head of a yacht
club Is called a commodore. A
commodore is a cross between
a hum idor and a m atador. He
has to be kept dam p like a
hum idor and bull-throw ing like
a m atador.
Being a commodore entitles you
to wear a m otorm an’s coat, white
duck pants and a cap.
Corner
S
Keeping Potatoes
To keep potatoes fro m tu rn in g
so ft befo re y o u ’ re rea dy to serve
th e m , s to re th e m by sp re a d in g
th e m out in a s h a llo w box so a ir
can c irc u la te a ro u n d th e m .
May
Fiction
O M ETH IN G NEW w ill be added
to “ Take I t or Leave I t ” on
Sept. 11 when Eddie Cantor takes
over as quizm aster of the oldest
of the jackpot quiz shows. Cantor
has spelled P hil Baker on the show
twice, in 1945, now steps in per
m anently. He has been quite a
pioneer in radio—when he came
into it studio audiences were kept
— e —
Serving Left-O ver llr e t
A q u ic k w uy to serve le ft-o v e r
ro a s t beef w ith o u t re -h e a tin g It is
to s lic e the m e u t, get the g ra v y
p ip in g hot and pour the hot g ru v y
o v e r tho cold m ea t.
— e —
The
BY IN E Z GERH ARD
Polish on Rug
I f shoe p o lish gets on a ru g , tr y
c le a n in g flu id . F o llo w it up w ith a
re g u la r w ash ing soap and w u te r
and a little a m m o n ia .
You can p re v e n t fre s h fro s tin g
fro m ru n n in g o il the top and dow n
the sides o f cakes by d u s tin g flo u r
across the cake us soon as the
fro s tin g Is p u t on. N ot enough to
a lte r th e taste o f the ic in g , but
ju s t enough to m a k e it congeal.
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42. B urrow ing
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44. Equip w ith
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