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Lights of New York
by L. L. STEVENSON
M»*:indorings nn<) meditations. Three
Kro.if shaggy horses, their nostrils Juf-
ling steam, pulling a huge coal truck
- . . The (luted jade of the Hudson.
The sun tonkins ■ sparkling diamond of
* snow-coated roof-top water-tank
. . . The zig-zagging darting of the
Eighth avenue buses . . . Wonder
if the drivers dream of being caught
in trattle snarls? . . . and having
to keep schedules . . . An old man.
who looks like a hold-over Santa, swip
ing a banana front a push cart . . .
sad slowly walking away as he eats
h • • . Maybe he’s trying for a
home for the winter . . . By get
ting pinched . . . Such a thought
makes me tenonsy Inside . . . Kath
arine Cornell, who Is one of m.v two
favorite actresses . . . Helen Hayes,
also playing In town now, Is the other
. . . Richard Money, press agent
who did snch a line Job for “Jum
bo" many thought hint a part of the
kbow.
* * *
I.ike to stare at pawnshop windows '
» . . In one on Eighth avenue, a)
big roulette wheel . . . The sign
ati.vs it cost . . . lint can he
taken away for . . . Maybe the
bouse percentage isn’t as heavy as It 1
should be . . . Also a mammoth
silver punch howl ... A Tiffany
product that can he had for $*100 . . .
I tot there's a story behind that . . .
About egg nogs and gay parties . . .
•ml then disaster that put the howl
that flowed into the pawnshop
»nd that huge accordion with its many
ami expensive trn'oihigs . . How
did It reach that window? . .
Window displays in 111<> garment ceil
ter being inspected by experts . . .
They can tell exac l.v what each article
cost by the dozen . . . Or by the
gross . . . and most of them are
unemployed . . . The guy showing
In the window of a house that deals
iri piece goods . . . and the mil
•tons of buttons in a wholesale button
house window.
Mrs. S. Stan wood Mencken, who getz
much publicity because of her costumes
at various parties . . She shot
the chutes with others of society at
that Coney Island hall at the Elyeee
. . . Wish 1 had time to go out to
Coney today . . There’s something
appealing about the somber sullenness
of the winter ocean . . . Hugh
Gray who has named one of ids five
dogs. Contract Bridge , . . Wilfrid
Lawton who turns In such a fine per
formance as the defense attorney in
that new hit, “Libel." . . . Maybe
I shouldn’t kick because It means extra
revenue for the government .
But .Tim Farley’s postage stamps tear
entirely too easily . . . and the
pieces get lost . . . The postmaster
general strolling along Broadway made
me think of that.
* • •
Carl J'hillipi, an electrical engineer,
who, when out of work, refused to go
on relief . . . Or take a WPA Job
. . . Instead, he toiled away in an
attic on an idea that had been in his
mind for years . . . The result was
a toy ocean with toy lighthouse and
toy liners . . . That steered by re
mote control ... It caught the
fancy of New York kids . . . and
now Phillip! has a profitable business
. . Christopher Motley surveying
Times Square through pipe smoke . . .
* • *
A restaurant window filled with fish
of various kinds . . , With designs
done in shrimps . . . and huge
heaps of live lobsters . . . Wonder
If tin* old “lobster palaces" will ever
come back? . . . Heard of a lit
tie French eating place where if the
madam doesn't care for a customer,
sko Invites bint not to return! . . .
Curious thing that in New York where
the struggle for business Is so fierce
. . . and the press agent of a res
taurant fried to get publicity by throw
ing a party in honor of (lie one hun
dred and forty-third anniversary of the
Earl of Sandwich . . . Who, hun
gry while gaming, had a piece of meat
put between slices of bread.
Bird Illness
Birds are more susceptible to con
tagious diseases titan mammals.
Chimney Rock, N. C.
Chimney Bock gets its name from !
a peculiar formation amazingly like a
real chimney. The base of the rock is
connected to a mountain of almost
solid rock, but leans away from the
ledge about a quarter of the way to its
top. There is a walk from the moun
tain across a chasm to the top of
Chimney rock and the view from the '
top is magnificent. The town of Chim
ney Itock Is about IS miles from
Asheville on the Greenville-Spartan-
burg highway.
Peanut, Burrowing Bean
The peanut is often called the bur
rowing bean, because after the flower
fades file plant stems bend over from
a height of about 1.8 inches and, like
an ostrich hiding his head, bury the
pods in the ground to mature. In the
late summer and autumn the nuts are
thrown out of the ground with a dig
ger, and then dried in piles of stacks
for four to six weeks. Thrashing ma
chines remove the pods from the vines.
Strange Street Names
Rotlienburg ob der Tauber, famous
German city where every year on Whit-
Monday tiie Meister Trunk festival is
held, has street and tower names as
quaint as its festivals. A few of them
are Little Dumpling street, Vinegar Jug,
Choese Chamber, the Dog Tower, and |
without any thought of Barrie, the I
Street of the Little Minister.
Churchgoers
St. Petersburg, Flu., has the distinc
tion of being the only city in America
where firemen and police are assigned
to churches on Sunday to keep doors
and aisles clear of worshipers. Every
denomination is represented.
Frozen Butterflies
Certain butterflies are frozen and
inert more than ten months of the year
in northeastern Siberia, where tem
perattires average sixty degrees below
zero, but revive in midsummer sun
shine.—Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Georgia's tnost contented homes today
are those which are making wise and far
sighted increase in their use of electric
service, homes that are using electric serv
ice more and more to brighten their days,
lighten their tasks and add to the smooth
efficiency ot home life in general.
Here is an investment that pays imme
diate returns!
’ Every hour from which electricity can
remove household jobs that once were
burdensome is one hour less for acquiring
wrinkles of worry and toil — sixty min
utes added to the joy of life as it should
be lived-—thirty-six hundred extra sec
onds to devote to recreation, relaxation,
civic, religious or cultural activity, getting
acquainted with the family and neighbors
— an extra hour to use as you WANT
to use it!
Georgia homes — literally by the thou
sands!— are finding out the truth of this
every day that passes. Georgia ranks high
in the nation in use of electric service
in the home and is climbing higher all the
time. Georgians know how to LIVE and
are proving it. , |
Is YOUR home getting all it deserves,
all it CAN get, cheaply and easily, from
the liberal stock of comfort and coni
venience held out to you by electric serv
ice?
REIDSVILLE TAKES LEAD IN GROUP “C”
In Big $10,000 Home Town Electrical Contest
Where docs your town stand in the
race for home town championship? Is it
among the leaders? Now is the time for
action — if your town is to finish among
the winners in the big $10,000 Home
Town Electrical Contest. Interest in the
competition is mounting every day —
towns throughout the state are solidly or-
* ganizing in their efforts to be among the
winners. If you are not thoroughly fa
miliar with details of the competition, ask
at our nearest office or write Hown Town
Headquarters, 463 Electric Building, At
lanta, Georgia.
From fourth place to first was the sen
sational jump taken by Rcidsville during
the past month in Group “C”, to put the
Tattnall county town ahead of Warm
Springs, Shellman, Louisville and Warm
Springs, in the order given. Activity in all
sections of this group of sixty towns in
dicated that a heated battle will rage for
the final winners in the division composed
of towns with from 100 to 200 residential
electric customers. Leaders follow:
Rank
KWH Averagei
1.
Reidsville
3,804.5
2.
Warm Springs
3,776.8
3.
Shellman
3,559.4
4.
Louisville
3,519.2
5.
Vienna
3,322.0
6.
Wadley
3,302.3
7.
Nashville
3,178.1
8.
Clarkston
3,026.1
9.
Perry
2,968.9
10.
McRae
2,956.8
Sweepstakes Leaders
Two special prizes of $750 and $250
will be awarded to the towns which finish
first and second, respectively, in total an
nual kilowatt hour use per customer at the
end of the contest, October 31, 1936.
Leaders in this phase of the race are:
Rank
KWH Average
1.
Avondale Estates ...
2,104.5
2.
Woodbine
2,089.2
3.
Louisville .
4.
Warm Springs
1,952.8
5.
Manchester
Georgia Power Company
Fingers Our First Forks;
Hands, Earliest Spoons
In the e civilized days it is difficult i
to realize that our first forks were our
fingers and the earliest spoons the
hollow of our hands, observes a writer
In the Montreal Herald.
The spoon is thought to he older than
the knife and fork. According to the ;
fashion of the Middle ages it was car- I
ried in a case in the hell of the wearer, I
with other table tools. The cases were |
frequently as handsome as the tools, j
From the Sixteenth century more ,
cutlery sets were made. As in modern
times, they were often given as pres- j
entation sets. Many fine old silver j
spoons are still prized as family heir- j
looms. The seal-top, the rattail and j
the fiddle were three popular designs
and the fiddle pattern is used today.
Unlike knife blades, the howls of
spoons were seldom etched or en
graved. Early spoons were of bone,
ivory, and wood.
Ancient Patriarch Ruled
The ancient patriarch ruled Ills fam
ily ; there was liltle defying of parental
authority and virtually no recognized
age of manhood or womanhood. The
Chinese not only reverenced the old
but believed that the older a man be
came the wiser he grew. Much the
same idea was held in ancient Rome.
The senate was the most powerful of
the governing bodies and was com
posed of the heads of the most im
portant or influential families. In most
cases nothing could lie considered by
the other body without senate consent
and usually if the senate said "no”
that settled any matter. The word
“senate” is of Latin origin, meaning
“old man,” but literally it refers to
an assembly of elders.
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