Wren Marshal Foch was visiting Detroit in 1921, some said to him: "You Frenchmen, with your flowing manners, do not impress me. It is all just so much hot air."
"Maybe," replied the Marshal, "but perhaps you have noticed that pneumatic tires, though led with nothing else but air, enable auto-noblies to pass over the bumps in the road with comparative ease. So it is with life—good manners, though only possibly hot air, enable us to pass over the bumps of life without undue joltings."
Oddments BECAUSE of war conditions and cold weather, there is a serious coal shortage in Germany. Not even Hitler can fuel all of the people all of the time.
We are astounded to learn that Great Britain is spending a million dollars an hour to carry m the war. Why, that is $40,000 more than it costs this country to carry on the peace!
Miss Katherine F, Lenroot, of the Children's Bureau, holds that Whittier's "The Barefoot Boy" is an affront to American kiddies, Uncle Sam's chillun got shoes.
The Metropolitan has had a real-estate opera-ion and is now expected to live, Grand opera s almost as hard to save as money and democracy.
The United States Census is starting a quiz outest that no one can possibly win. If you don't reply, you are fined, but even if you give he right answers you get no handsome prize.
At a scientists' meeting in Philadelphia, it vas asserted that it is a mistake for girls to carry dance-band leaders. Can this mean that t would be better to let the species die out?
—Howard Brubaker in the "New Yorker."
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