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RHEUMATISNCmbago
A NAME FOR THE
MOTHER-IN-LAW
“Did you see,’’ asked Senator
Dumm, "where a group of women
recently voted for a change in the
term ‘mother-in-law’?”
“I did,” replied Representative
Dummer. “They voted to change
it to kin-mother, the big sillies.”
“The foolish season is here ahead
of time,” said the senator, “and win
ter must be nearly over. There
are many names I could call the
old girl, but kin-mother is not
among ’em.”
“What was the big idea, anyhow?”
asked Dummer. “Were the moth
ers-in-law complaining?”
“Mothers-in-law are always com
plaining,” snapped the senator. “Do
you see this bruise over my eye?”
“I do,” said Dummer. “How
come?”
"From walking up to my wife’s
old lady and saying, ‘Hello, kin-
mother’; that’s how I got it. She
thought I said something else, and
when I tried to explain she said
mother-in-law was good enough for
her, and it would have to be good
enough for me.”
• • •
“I noticed that there were many
other names suggested before the
final vote,” said Dummer.
“One of ’em was ‘Blitzkrieg Moth
er,’ ” laughed the senator. “I rath
er liked that one. It will linger in
my memory long after I have for
gotten all about ‘kin-mother.’ But do
you know what I think is called for
now?”
“No.”
“A new name for mothers-in-law
to call their sons-in-law and daugh
ters-in-law.”
“Haven’t our mothers - in - law
enough names for them already?”
asked Dummer.
“I mean something printable;
sr mething that can be used in po
lite society,” argued the senator.
• * •
“How about asking her to call you
a kin-son?” asked Dummer.
“She would re
taliate by calling
me a kin-bum and
say she misun
derstood me,”
barked Senator
Dumm.
“Couldn’t she
just call you a
kin-guy or a kin-
sap?” asked
Dummer.
“She might be
glad to,” said the senator.
* • •
“Will anything come of the whole
business?” asked Dummer.
“Nothing whatever,” declared
Senator Dumm. “A man never re
fers to his mother-in-law as his
mother-in-law, anyhow. Ke either
calls her ‘that woman,’ ‘old iron
sides,’ ‘the crackdown’ or ‘the fam
ily static.’ ”
• • •
“Do you know what I call mine?”
asked Dummer.
“What?”
“The Roman Galley,” declared
Dummer.
“Why?” asked the senator, a bit
puzzled.
“Because she is always putting in
her oar,” concluded Representative
Dummer, dodging a chair.
• • •
LINES AFTER LOOKING OVER
THE PICTURES
For Robert Taft, as fi iherman,
I simply cannot root;
He fishes in high-polished shoes
And in a business suit.
• • •
Add similes: as uncomfortable as
a skiing enthusiast on a Caribbean
cruise.
• • •
Mr. Dewey says the time las
come for us to tighten our belts.
But too many Americans think
their belts are tight when it’s
merely indigestion.
• • •
CAN YOU REMEMBER—
Away back when an icebox looked
like an icebox?
• • •
Walt Disney’s “Pinnochio” is
all right. The trouble, however,
is that it encourages too many
other animated cartoonists.
* • •
THE PROOF
I know when winter’s on the lag
And going to the dogs:
It’s then my mail is flooded with
Those fishing catalogues.
• • •
ISN’T IT SO?
Manhattan, so all the records show,
In books and public print*
Was settled 300 years ago . . .
And hasn’t been settled since!
Avery Giles.
• • •
ASSISTS
“Tobacco Road” has run so long
It must be a federal project.
• • •
Attention, Mr. Farley! I ran
across a postage stamp the other
day with George Washington on it.
Milt the Berle.
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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1940
"Let's Play AutL
And He's Gr
Postage
iors," Says Ui
King Us a Nev
Stamps to H<
ide Sam,
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?lp Us Do It
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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
R emember back in the
“good old days” when
you used to play
“authors”?
It was a card game, you re
call, but it wasn’t the kind
that some puritanical folk
frowned upon because there
was a taint of gambling at
tached to it. Instead, your
parents and your teachers en
couraged you to play it be
cause they considered it “edu
cational” — it familiarized
you with the names of the
great literary figures of the
world and the novels and
poems and stories that they
had written.
Well, your Uncle Samuel re
cently decided that it might
be a good thing to revive that
old-fashioned game. At least,
he decided that we Amer
icans ought to become more
familiar with some of the
great literary figures in our
own past so he’s started a
variation on the old game of
authors on a nation-wide
scale. You don’t “play” it
with pasteboards. You “play”
it with stamps, which your
Uncle Samuel manufactures
and sells you (at a very good
profit to himself, incident
ally).
All of which is by way of call
ing your attention to a new series
of “Famous Americans” stamps
which the United States post of
fice department is issuing this
year. The first set in the series
was issued the last part of Janu
ary and the first part of Febru
ary; a second set was issued in
February; a third will be placed
on sale this month and each
month until November will see a
new group of American notables
being honored by having their
faces appear on a new set of
stamps.
It so happens that the first of
the seven groups which will be
issued this year displayed the
faces of five famous authors and
the second the countenances of
five famous poets—hence the
statement at the beginning of the
article that Uncle Sam was ask
ing us to “play authors” with him
by buying these new stamps for
use on our letters. As a matter
of fact, he’s going to honor other
“Famous Americans,” too—edu
cators, scientists, composers, art
ists and inventors.
Last November Postmaster
General Farley announced that
there was to be a new series of
“Famous Americans” which
would be composed of peace-time
heroes, instead of military and
naval heroes, or statesmen. An
ticipating possible criticism by
some people in regard to the se
lection of the men and women
whose portraits were to appear
on the stamps of different values,
Mr. Farley pointed out that the
selection of the various denomi
nations, which include a one- two,
three, five and ten-cent stamp for
each of the seven stamps of the
series, was to be governed by the
date of birth of the 35 famous
Americans in this new series.
In other words, the lowest de
nomination in each of the seven
groups was assigned to that par
ticular American notable whose
date of birth precedes that of all
others appearing in this particu
lar group, with the notable of the
most recent birth being awarded
the highest denomination. This
chronological birth order has
been followed throughout the new
series.
Thus, no one who beb'eves that
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
was a greater poet than James
Whitcomb Riley can object be
cause the face of the Hoosier bard
appears on a stamp of higher
value than that bearing the por
trait of the New Englander. The
fact that Longfellow was born in
1807 and Riley in 1853 was the
determining factor in placing the
picture of the former on the one-
cent stamp and the fact of the
latter on the 10-cent.
Similarly those who love the
songs of Stephen Collins Foster
can’t object because his picture is
on a one-cent stamp, whereas
those of Edward A. MacDowell
and Ethelbert Nevin, of whom
they may neVer have heard, are
on the five-cent and the 10-cent
stamps, respectively. Of course,
it may seem rather silly that
Uncle Sam, as represented by his
postmaster-general, has to be so
very careful to avoid the slightest
suspicion of partisanship in such
a matter as this. But it’s amaz
ing what queer notions people
have sometimes, and they’ve
raised a veritable “tempest in a
teapot” over lesser matters than
this.
Having chosen his list of
authors, poets, educators, scien
tists, composers, artists and in
ventors to appear on his new
series of stamps, Uncle Sam next
decided on the places for “first
days,” i. e., where each of these
stamps were first to be sold. In
every case the home town of the
notable or some place closely as
sociated with his career was
chosen.
Thus on January 29 the green
one-cent stamp bearing the por
trait of Washington Irving was
placed on sale at Tarrytown, N.
Y. On the same day the post
office at Cooperstown, N. Y., be
gan selling the red-two cent
stamps bearing a likeness of the
author of the “Leatherstocking
Tales”—James Fenimore Cooper.
On February 5 the Ralph Waldo
Emerson stamp (three-cent, pur
ple) was first sold in Boston and
the Louisa May Alcott stamp
(five-cent, blue) in Concord,
Mass. On February 13 the mem
ory of Samuel Langhorne Clem
ens (Mark Twain, to most Amer
icans) was again honored at Han
nibal, Mo., with the first day sale
of a new 10-cent brown stamp.
Thus Uncle Sam started his
new “game” of authors and he
continued it during February by
issuing the five stamps in the poet
group, as follows: February 16,
the Henry W. Longfellow stamp
(one-cent, green) was first sold
at Portland, Maine, and the John
Greenleaf Whittier stamp (two-
cent, red) at Haverhill, Mass.;
February 20 the James Russell
Lowell (three-cent, purple) at
Cambridge, Mass., and the Walt
Whitman (five-cent, blue) at Cam
den, N. J.; February 24, the
James Whitcomb Riley (10-cent,
brown) at Greenfield, Ind.
Beginning this month with the
educators’ group the stamps will
be placed on sale as follows:
Educators.
March 14—Boston, Horace
Mann, one-cent, green.
March 14 — Williamstown,
Mass., Mark Hopkins, two-cent,
red.
March 28—Camoridge, Mass.,
Charles W. Eliot, three-cent, pur
ple.
March 28—Evanston, 111. Fran
ces E. Willard, five-cent, blue.
April 7 — Tuskegee Institute,
Ala., Booker T. Washington, ten-
cent, brown.
Scientists.
April 8—St. Francisville, La.,
John James Audubon, one-cent,
green.
April 8—Jefferson, Ga., Dr.
Crawford W. Long, two-cent, red.
April 17—Santa Rosa, Calif.,
Luther Burbank, three-cent, pur
ple.
April 17—Washington, Dr. Wal
ter Reed, five-cent, blue.
April 26—Chicago, Jane Ad-
dams, ten-cent, brown.
Composers.
May 3—Bardstown, Ky., Ste
phen C. Foster, one-cent, green.
May 3—Washington, John Phil
ip Sousa, two-cent, red.
May 13—New York, Victor Her
bert, three-cent, purple.
May 13—Peterborough, N. H.,
Edward A. MacDowell, five-cent,
blue.
June 10—Pittsburgh, Pa., Ethel
bert Nevin, 10-cent, brown.
Artists.
September 5—Narragansett, R.
I., Gilbert C. Stuart, one-cent,
green.
September 5—Lowell, Mass., J.
A. M. Whistler, two-cent, red.
September 16—New York, Au
gustus Saint-Gaudens, three-cent,
purple.
September 16 — Stockbridge,
Mass., Daniel F. French, five-
cent, blue.
September 30—Canton, N. Y.,
Frederic Remington, 10-cent,
brown.
Inventors.
October 7—Savannah, Ga., Eli
Whitney, one-cent, green.
October 7—New York, Samuel
F. B. Morse, two-cent, red.
October 14—Lexington, Va., Cy
rus H. McCormick, three-cent,
purple.
October 14—Spencer, Mass.,
Elias Howe, five-cent, blue.
October 23—Boston, Alexander
G. Bell, 10-cent, brown.
jeJp
Sincerely
“John, I hope I didn’t see you
•miling at that creature who just
passed.”
•T hope you didn’t, m’dear!"
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•aid the fat man’s wife, wiring a
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Tempted Him
'Alfred—When she umsrit looking, f
kissed her.
George—What happened?
Alfred—She refused to look otmo for
the rest of the evening.
Invisible Man
It was her first time out in the
ear since she passed the driving
test, and the policeman sensed she
was having trouble.
“What’s wrong, miss?” ho
asked.
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passed a sign which said 'Pedes
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see him anywhere!”
Any More?
“Are any of the colors discernible to
the touch?” asked the schoolteacher.
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boy at the head of the class.
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He who asks repentance for the
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