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You Lows Me
By
Al Himself
We have been a ‘bachelor’ for
two weeks. The boss is spending
her time with June in New Jersey.
We have this ‘working at the of-
fice and still keeping house’ pro-
blem” now down to a science.
Never being a selfish person, we
think it would be nice to pass on
some of the knowledge gained to
a few friends who may be in the
same boat we are now.
Always clean the coffee pot im-
mediately after coming home from
work. If you let it go to next
morning the time consumed is
just - sufficient for over-frying the
eggs, and if there is one thing we
dislike, it is hard fried eggs.
Don’t get exasperated when time
is fleeting if you can’t get the cof-
fee cream to pour out of the can
because a film has blocked the
holes. Remember your wife isn’t
there with a handy bobby pin.
Just keep a lead pencil on the kit-
chen table, and jab it into the hole.
If you use a soft lead pencil some
of the lead is liable to scrape off
onto the can and may find its way
into the coffee, and who wants to
expose himself to lead poisoning?
Many husbands, while batching
throw away the crusts of bread
that the wife generally eats: be-
cause she doesn’t want to waste
anything. Your conscience bothers
you when you waste these crusts,
but your conscience will be clear
when you learn of my discovery. |
Crusts are the nicest things for |
wiping butter or cheese from
knives. When cleaning silverware
that way it is not necessary to
wash it and it won't get rusty from
lying in the sink all day. If you
like a cream’ cheese and jelly sand-
wich for lunch as we do, the crust
may also be used for laying the
cheese out to cut it on and then
you will have one less soiled dish
staring you in the face when you
come home at night.
If you put off sweeping the kit-
chen floor until it becomes a
slight annoyance, but not enough
of an annoyance to send you look-
ing for a broom, spill a half tea
spoon of sugar on the floor and
you'll get a broom promptly.
Whenever = possible discourage
your wife from laying in these
minute steaks. Your better half
will fill the refrigerator with food
before leaving you, but tell her
“No minute steaks”. They look
simple enough to cook, but it is
the tools, you need to: get them
ready for’ the table that throws
Sponsor Dances
you. The directions on the package
state that you shall take one or
two steaks from the box, remove
the thin paper dividing them and
place in a pan butter side down.
After sizzled for half a minute,
take a pancake turner and flop
over,
Now one time while we were at
a County fair we bought a pancake
turner. It was the grandest thing
that man ever invented. One end
was the turner, on the other a can
opener, a needle threader and a
pickle jar opener. It was the best
twenty cents worth that we ever
got in our life. The demonstrator
said it could even be used as a
shoe horn. We placed this instru-
ment in the silverware drawer, but
it was always disappearing. We
suspected from time to time that
our wife didn’t appreciate this
boon to the kitchen, but when we
complained she would produce it
and swear it was right under our
nose all the time.
Well, the steak sizzled for. half a
minute, so we opened the drawer,
following the directions on the
package, but no pancake turner.
We hurriedly removed the knife,
fork and spoon divider and peeked
closer, still no pancake turner.
Then out came the bread knife,
roast knife, bottle opener, cork
screw, but no pancake turner.
The steak caught on fire and we
threw it and frying pan out the
back door.
When. our wife comes home if
she finds that pancake turner un-
der our nose, we are going to get:
her a job as a magician.
No, men, don’t allow minute
steaks to come into your house
while your wife is away—unless a
pancake turner comes with each
package.
Evangelical Services
Rev. Henry Weaver, Shrader
street, Larksville, will be in charge
of a week of open air evangelical
services to be held at the Trum-
bower Farm, near Mooretown, route
415, starting Sunday at 7:30 PM.
Saturday night, June 23: and 30,
Jackson Volunteer Fire Company
will sponsor square and modern
dances at the Lewis Recreation
Center. Special attention will be
given to beginners. Come and
learn.
Edgar Lashford is chairman and
music will be by Bob Scott’s Or-!
chestra. |
THE POST, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1951 _
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MRS. W. E. McQUILKIN
Mrs. W. E. McQuilkin radiates
competence. It did not take Dallas
people long to recognize this when
she arrived in 1947, to realize that
she was vitally interested in the
public school system, and to elect
her to presidency of the Parent
Teachers’ Association for a term
of two years. At the present writ-
ing she leads the Back Mountain
Area Council of PTA. i
When Mrs. Mary Morgan retired
from teaching in Dallas Borough
elementary school to accept a
State position, Mrs. McQuilkin was
the logical choice to take charge
of the sixth grade. She had had
experience in fifth and sixth grade
work when teaching in Lincoln,
Nebraska, near the old homestead
of William Jennings Bryan.
Franklin Street residents are
familiar with the sight of Mrs.
McQuilkin, charging up the long
hill on her way’ to school at eight-
thirty, usually trailed by . two or
three panting children. She has
been taking it, rain or shine, cold,
snow, or fiery vapor, ever since
the family car let go and settled
down in the garage for a long
rest. Nothing buffaloes her. She
has time for not only her own
Girl Scouts, but for Boy Scouts
as well, in addition to her teach-
ing and her domestic duties.
In case you are wondering how
some of the Boy Scouts earned
their ceramics badge, it was Mrs.
McQuilkin who gave instruction,
and Mrs. McQuilkin who cooked
the products in the little electric
kiln in the basement.
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YESTERDAY
From The Post of ten and
twenty years ago this week.
From The Issue of June 20, 1941
Nesbitt Garinger’s entry in the
homing pigeon race from Green-
ville, Tennessee, came in fourth,
making the 500 miles in thirteen
hours and fifteen minutes.
Harveys Lake Highway construc-
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Adleman property leased by the
Hazleton firm, Pennsylvania Quarry,
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July 1.
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of the Kunkle-Beaumont road.
Miss Arline Frantz became the
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Ruth C. Walters, Lehman, and
Paul Shouldice, Jackson, were mar-
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Lutheran Church, Kingston.
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Wayne Robert Gabel
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Smith,
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Hospital June 12. Mrs. Smith is
the former Ruth Gabel, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Gabel.
The Book Worm
BOOKS FOR JUNE
The following books have been
purchased by the Library Book
Club for June and are now avail-
able at Back Mountain Memorial
Library:
High Hills Calling, Alice M.
Downes. A study of home and
marriage in upper New York State
before World War II and how a
playboy husband and a frivolous
wife resolve into two adult people.
The Balance Wheel, Taylor Cald-
well. About Charles Wittman, the
balance wheel of his family, and
his problems as a successful busi-
ness man and the complications
confronting him in World War I.
Of Mikes and Men, J. Woodfin.
Her merry tale of the days when
she and radio were young together.
Lonesome Quarter, Richard
Wormser. A warm story of people
on a small ranch and their funda-
mental human yearnings.
Return to Paradise, J. A.
Michener. A well-defined” picture
of the post-war South Pacific
which will be disappointing to the
romanticist. ;
Devil in" Velvet, John D. Carr.
Professor Nicholas Fenton reverts
back 300 years to assume the life
of his ancestral namesake and a
rendezvous with his lovely wife,
Lydia.
Portrait of Isabelle—Elizabeth
Corbett. ‘A novel of happy domes-
ticity until the problems of Isa-
belle’s youngest daughter beset her
mother in late life.
Woman in Love, Lucy Cores. The
story of a young woman who want-
ed more from the man she loved
than he was willing to give.
Innocent Eve, Robert Nathan.
Clever and witty phantasy about
a couple who ‘crashed a tycoon’s
party.
Salad Days, Bellathy Partridge.
College life at the turn of the
Century "by the author of “Coun-
try Lawyer.”
The Polkadot Murder, Frances
Crane. Pat and Jean Abbott seek
relaxation in an artist's colony in
New Mexico only to be thrust into
the detective business.
There’s Always Adventure, Grace
E. Murphy. The happy home life
of a naturalist’s wife in New York
and on the road with her scientist
and family.
Nook Farm, Kenneth R. Andrews.
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INDIAN VILLAGE
Everything is serene as I am sitting at the table having noodle
soup with Granpy and Myra when something impels me to ask,
“Would you like a highball, Granny 7?”
She is indignant at such impudence in the middle of a very fine
meal about to be topped off with
one of her strawberry shortcakes.
“Or maybe you'd like a drink of straight liquor instead ?”” I per-
sist.
Granny near blows her top!
“Phew, why do you ask such fool
questions ?”’ she asks innocently, setting down her glass of iced tea.
“Well, we think maybe you'll need something to steady your
nerves!” says Myra, catching on to what I am about to announce.
Then I blurt it out, “Granny, we're going to have another dog.”
She is flabbergasted and near chokes on an ice cube.
“Where in the world are you
already have three!”
going to keep another dog, you
“This one will have to sleep in your room,” Myra broke in calmly,
“there is no other place left.”
Granny straightened and fluffed her feathers like a setting hen
about to be thrust under a potato crate.
through her son-in-law she shot
Then looking straight
a devestating arrow.
“My brother used to say, ‘a poor man always has one dog, and a
d-- poor one has a dozen.’ Are you both crazy?
How are you going
to feed four dogs,” she is still addressing her remarks to me, “when
your wife that I educated to be a self-respecting school teacher,
still has to help you make a living with that newspaper?”
Granny has her way of getting vengeance.
“Well, it’s this way,” says Myra coming to my aid.
(She that
is allergic to dogs, newsprint, and printers’ ink.)
“Bucky is fifteen years old and can’t stand the heat; so we thought
we'd have another dog just in case something happened.”
“Another dog is alright,” snapped Granny, “but three other dogs—
* Bucky hasn’t got nine lives!”
The truth of the matter is that I am now the main support of
four dogs which is as nothing compared to the wrath incurred from
my mother who ‘“‘won’t have those dogs tramping over her flower
beds” and my mother-in-law who
refuses to sleep with one of them.
Fate is a strange thing and he who hasn't tempted it, should never
treat it lightly.
It was fate that got me involved with four dogs
and now Lady Luck has turned her back on me; and all my friends
who might have taken one of them have suddenly become allergic.
Fate entered the picture when
legs, suddenly developed monkey
Buck who has been on his last
glands as soon as Blaze set her
foot on the place. Off feed for a matter of six weeks, he now capers
kittenishly and eats more Blue Streak than any of the others.
It was Fate that brought Rogue, a gentle springer spaniel to our
doorstep, and good feed and a place to sleep that has kept him
there.
It was Fate that whispered in Murray Scureman’s ear. “Howard
and Myra Risley love Sandy; and it was Fate that helped Murray
sell his place so that he could move to Kingston and test our af-
fection for the coal black Scotty.
It was Fate that led me to pet
Blaze a beautiful registered Irish
setter when Fred Brokenshire drove up to the Post with her. It
was Fate that coaxed Fred to say, “I'm going to get rid of her one
of these days.” And it was Fate that should have socked me over
the head when I replied, “Gee, if
you ever do, let me know.”
Bucky lived, Rogue stayed, Murray sold his place and Fred was as
good as his word; and now I sleep in another bedroom with Blaze
at the foot of the bed, Sandy in the middle, Rogue in the cellar
and Buck waiting outside the door to tear all of them ‘to pieces.
Did I suggest a stimul#nt for &GFagay 2.
Please pass me the laudanum!
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