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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1962)
Quips and Quotes ? 1 " "t-i NEW Easy-Pour Spout Q Law of the Range Ah, kitchen ranges have always stood As their foreliears stood liefore them: Close to the wall, the way they should, But keeping a nice decorum. For the ancient Law of the Range directs That always there he lielween them Space enough so that dirt collects, But not enough room to clean them! Georgie Slarhuck Gtilbraith As soon as he saw his married daughter at the front door, the har ried businessman knew he had trou ble. "Well, what is it now?" he sighed. "Daddy," the daughter said, "George needs a little help." "Help!" exclaimed the father. "What more can I do for that no-good husband of yours? I've already spent a lot of money setting him up in a business, and it's a failure!" "Yes, but George has a wonderful solution," the daughter replied. "He wants you to buy him out!" John Shotwell During a class in American history, the teacher was discussing the folk ways of the Puritan society. "Does anybody know what kind of people were punished in stocks?" From the back of the room came an eager reply: "Probably small in- Social Contacts Often, the key to social success Has nothing to do with brains or wit; It isn't what you know but who And if she's free to baby sit. Suzanne Douglass vestors !" Emil Berger M'll' H Ml 'J-WUIWI'l 9 O The big city scares me a little. I am lost in its steel walled darkness, a feeble ad versary of its indifference. "Where you bound for?" asked the cab driver on the way in from the airport. "Florida? The missus and me are gonna live there some day. We're savin' for it." "It's a beautiful place," I said. That's all I said for miles. The cab driver never saw my face. He spoke from need. He told me of his surgeon brother in New York, his psychiatrist brother in Los Angeles. He told me of his own failure in medi cal school. He told me of his teen-age son on the baseball team and his daughter who could cook. He spoke of his tragedies and his happiness and how it was to drive a heavy truck to Detroit. When I paid him and left, we part ed in a peculiar limbo of friendship. Luter, at the hotel, I sorted the waiter's accent into English I could comprehend. "Have you been in this country long?" I inquired politely. I had no need to say more. As he served and took away the soup, as he brought the entree tenderly to my plate, the words burst from him. Fur tively, one eye on the maitre d', he described the escape from Siberia, the return to Europe for the Latvian wife, the struggle to create a new world for himself among the canyons of the city. When he brought the bill, he laid it with a kind of apology at my plate as though he might rather have accepted it himself in return for my listening ear and my silent tolerance. And so it was in the city. I will not see my Latvian friend again, nor the cab driver who failed in his broth ers' world. Yet from their own lives they gave a stranger something of themselves and in a gratitude that it was not rejected. Perhaps they gave more than they knew. Perhaps I did the same for them. They are two faces in the crowd, two of a poet's petals on a wet, black bough. I went away from the city in their fragrance. joNSONOL LIGHTER FUEL rw 'is? STOP PAIN I INSTANTLY COMBAT INFECTION PROMOTE HEALING WITH SOOTHINO Campho- Phenique (rmONQVNCtO CAM to flM it) USE IT FOR FEVER BLISTERS COLD SORES, , ......j GUM BOILS Not only 1o lever aJfc m intern neat muter, but the mime thing happens when Cam-pho-I'hen Ique la used on rohl no fen. Kum bolls. Wonder fully soothing Camoht- Hkmon r. tttwntj too. for minor burns, jKilson Ivy, Itching of Insect bites. And C'amphO' I'hi'nlque I a highly effective. 1 pain-relieving antiseptic for 1 minor cut and scratches from 4 paring knives, can openers, tin 1 can, etc. 1 I'sed on pimples, Campho 1 Chen I que helps prevent their 4 spread arid n-lnfectlon. family Wnkly. October 14. J Ml w I
