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Ramblin' Roses and Flyin' Bricks
In Glendora, California, a policeman has been assigned to the cat-haunted home of a Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Carta. For over three weeks now a cat has been trapped somewhere in the walls of their new $16,000 home. The cat's meows-plus a flood of curious visitors, callers and letters - have the Cartas pretty well frustrated. The policeman was sent there to keep the crowds away, Plumbers, X-ray men and veterinarians have all made futile efforts to free the cat. The cat's cries have been growing weaker and in just a few days the Carta family have some real trouble. Over in Mississippi The other item comes from Mississippi. I don't know why it is, but more things can happen in Mississippi than in other state in the Union. Now their vital statistics chief says 68 couples who got marriage license forms after the last Legislature met and something or other was left off. The Attorney-General kind of dodged the question as to the status of the couples affected. The trouble with most newspapers is that they play up things like the Suez Canal dispute, the President's budget and racial unrest and put the interesting little items like those above way back on the back pages. Take the Carta family. I know that they're going through. Once, several years ago, a swarm of bees got in my loft (house loft) and everybody in town tried to help me get rid of 'em. They suggested smoke, gas, water, beating on old plows, and a hundred other things. Nothing worked, but finally the bees took a notion to leave, through no fault of mine. It'll Get Worse I'll just bet the Cartas have had it kind of suggestions about how to get that cat out of the wall after the cat dies, they will get even more suggestions. What they had better do right now is knock a few holes in the walls and put some hamburger meat and a saucer of milk in front of each hole. People are like that. They want to help. You can come down with a bad cold and your friends start prescribing all kind of sure-cure remedies, ranging from lemon juice and hot toddies to castor oil. It always seemed strange to me, though, that the same people who know all about how to cure a cold never seem able to do much about their own. Hay fever is another ailment that most everybody knows how to cure. Years ago I was foolish enough to try everything my friends recommended and I'm telling you some of 'em like to have killed me. Now I simply get a bath towel and enjoy it. Should Visit Relatives Actually, the Carta family doesn't have too much to worry about. A dead cat, I figure, will kind of play out in a few weeks. In the meantime they can visit their Aunt Sally in Arkansas.
Now, I'll take the Mississippi case. Well, suppose you take it. There was another little item in the same paper, which was very interesting. Did you know that February has been designed as National Tie Cleaning Month? What you do is gather up all your old neckties and send them to your cleaner and he brings them back looking like new. That's what the piece said.
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