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You Don't Have to Be Old and Feeble to Like St. Petersburg, _ The Young Folks Enjoy It, Too.

T. PETERSBURG, Fla., Feb. 16.—A fellow who lives permanently in Florida, and has always claimed to be a friend of mine, said the other day: “You're well acquainted with both Cali-

fornia and Florida. So while you're here

why don’t you write a column comparing the two states?” :

Oh no, my good man, you don’t catch me that

way. I never did get. through school, and I don’t know a debenture from a debutante, but believe me I've got sense enough not to start comparing California and Florida in the public prints. And even if I did, Florida had better watch its laurels—for this column runs in three cities in California, and only one in Florida, and I guess I know which side my bread is buttered on. . So I can only say that Florida is colossal. In fact, the only ¥eason I haven't moved here is that the whole State is so wonderful I can’t decide which part to settle in. (Aside to Californians—wink, wink.) " "St. Petersburg probably has taken more drubbing from us writing fellers than any city in Florida. That's because so many elderly people come here for the winters. St. Petersburg has been referred to as “The City of the Living Dead,” and “The Old People’s Home” and such things as that. Yel, if I were St. Petersburg, I'd just skip the wisecracks and concentrate all

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with old people. : Of course, what the civic leaders want fo get over to the public is that you can whoop apd holler here as well as in other Florida cities. You can bes and go nightclubbing and fish and yacht and look at paim trees and parade in your sports roadster. - But personally I'm at the point where I can" yell “hot-cha” about twice and then I want to go sit down somewhere. I think it’s mighty nice to have a | place like St. Petersburg where you don’t need either a Blue Book status or 80,000,000,000 red corpuscles to have a good time.

Shuffleboard Big Attraction

Next to the downtown green benches, you'll find the greatest crowds of winter visitors out at the big Mirror Lake Social Center. This is one of the most amazing places I've ever seen. It constitutes, for grownups, what the playgrounid center and gymnasium does for school kids. It has about every grownup game you ever heard of, and biggest of all is shuffleboard. The shuffleboard club, with 5000 members, is the biggest in the world. The game has caught on like a hungry fish. There are more than 150 courts here. All around town you see private courts, too. Other Florida cities are tak-

Shuffleboard has run horseshoe pitching off the map. That used to be the big thing in St. Petersburg. But the horseshoe-pitching lanes have dwindled from 143 to a mere four. And now let us close on a historical note. St. Petersburg’s existence is due to two men—Gen. John C. Williams of Detroit, who chose this spot as a healthful place to retire, and Petrovich Demenscheft, an exiled Russian, who built the first railroad into here in 1888. : Each man wanted to name the town. Gen. Wil liams was for Detroit, his home town. Mr. Demenscheff held out for St. Petersburg, his home city in Russia. So they flipped a half dollar. Mr. Demenscheff won. The name is St. Petersburg, as you pos- p sibly know by now. Gen. Williams died in 1892. And as for Mr. |. Demenscheff (it's a dirty trick to be telling this), he left for California in the Nineties, and never came back! ;

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Stresses Urgency of Finding Jobs For Handicapped Paralysis Victims.

LMIRA, N. Y, Wednesday.—After attending George Holmes’ funeral yesterday, I left Washington on the 1 o'clock plane in order to do a few things in New York City before Mrs. Morgenthau and TI took the night train to Elmira. I want to tell you now about a letter which has come to me and which I feel brings home a point which so many of us fail to realize. The letter, in part, says: “Just at present the infantile paralysis drive is on. The papers are full of it and we hear it on the radio constantly. I earnestly hope that the drive will reap a great sum to help care and cure unfortunate victims of the disease. The majority of people feel as I do and many will donate sums of money. But how many will, if they were asked, be willing to give these poor victims a chance to earn a living when they have recovered? “My daughter was stricken in the 1916 epidemic and, as a result, her left arm is partially paralyzed. In spite of her handicap she studied stenography and typing and found employment as a legal stenographer. Illness. caused her to give up her position and now she cannot get another one, the reason being ‘her arm. Because her references and work seem satisfactory, she is able to secure positions, but after the employers notice that her left arm is paralyzed, she is asked to leave.

One Step Further

“If her work does not suffer as a consequence of her paralyzed arm, why should she and others in a like position be so cruelly penalized sometimes by. those who consider themselves ‘charitable’? They

This was made vivid for me in going through the employment offices in Washington the other day. In each division they have a special individual who gives his attention solely to the interviewing of physically handicapped people. He has to make every effort to interview employers and practically sell

about their handicap. Usually he finds they can hold the jobs satisfactorily if they are once engaged and kept for a long enough period. It is true that in some cases a person has to be in evidence a great deal and the handicap is disfiguring. It may be impossible for an employer: to employ them in that kind of work. In many cases, however, work can be fitted to the individual.

Day-by-Day Science

By Science Service ; you are engaged in an aentinoise campaign, whether on a small scale in your own surroundings, or on a large public scale, you now have a new weapon to use in your fight. Noise is not only an annoyance, hard on the ears and injurious to the nervous system. It also is or can be injurious to

This is the organ in your throat from which your woice comes. When you have to talk loud enough to pe heard above the din of street noises, machines, typewriter, or subway trains, you are abusing your larynx. Abuse of the larynx, if severe enough, may lead to loss of voice. Maybe you think the loss or ruin of a voice is important only to the singer, teacher or public speaker. If so, try to remember your last attack of laryngitis that made you temporarily voiceless, or try to stop talking for a few hours. The dangerous results of abuse of the larynx are explained by Drs. Chevalier Jackson and Chevalier I. Jackson, .Philadelphia physicians, in the current issue of Hygeia, an American Medical Association lication. ; Pula: human larynx,” they state, “is too beautiful, too useful and tao delicate an instrument to be used creation of din. . ot “Shouting and cheering at football games, like forceful singing and speaking, often cause little hem--orrhages on the vocal cords; these hemorrhages develop into the vocal nodules and various kinds. of |

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Times Special

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16.—Crater Lake .. . Glacier Park... the Rockies ... Yellowstone. For several million Americans, visitors

to the Golden Gate Inter- - national Exposition, those

magic names will be transformed into reality this year. For they and many another scenic wonder dot the * various central and northern transcontinental routes between the Pacific

Coast and the East. 7

And they are equally available to travelers by rail, plane, bus or automobile.

Let us assume you have driven to the Exposition over one of the Southern routes, have seen the points of interest en route, have had your fill of the dream city men built on an island in San Francisco Bay. Now you are ready to go home—back to Indianapolis or Cleveland, Houston or Knoxville or Pittsburgh. Perhaps you will select U. S. 40, the highway that slashes straight across the United States from San Francisco to Chicago. When you leave San Francisco on the mighty Bay Bridge your route leads you up the Sacramento Valley to California's capital, where you turn toward the snowcapped Sierra. : You have your choice of three direct routes across these mountains on fine highways that lift you 7000, 8000, 9000 feet above sea level. One leads you through the Placerville country, where the Forty-niners labored and where men still wrest gold from the earth, then around the shores of lovely Lake Tahoe. A second crosses Emigrant Gap, main route of the early gold seekers, and past Donner Lake of tragic memory, with Lake Tahoe as a side trip. The third is via the new, spectacular, eight-million-dollar Feather River Highway. 8 ” 8

LL three routes converge at Reno, gay divorce capital. Thence the route sweeps- across the vast Nevada desert, past Great Salt Lake and through Cheyenne or Denver to the East. But you may wish to leave this highway in Eastern Nevada and swing north through Idaho to Yel-

lowstone, most famous of the na-

tional parks. After Yellowstone you may continue eastward either via the Black Hills, with a visit to Mt. Rushmore Memorial, or down through the Grand Teton country of Wyoming to Cheyenne and Denver, with a side trip to Rocky Mountain National Park. Few motorists, however, will want to return home without seeing more of the Pacific Coast. And the country north of San Francisco offers an unparalleled opportunity. The motorist has a choice of two routes, via the Sacramento Valley or the coastline. The latter route, known as the Redwood Highway, is one of the most beautiful drives in the world. For, 150 miles north of San Francisco, he enters the great coast redwood belt... For hours he drives along Natures

- cathedral aisles formed by trees 10

feet in diameter, 100 feet high, through which the sunlight filters in majestic patterns. But if the traveler chooses the valley route, he will be able to visit Mt. Lassen, only active volcano in continental United States, and get a closeup view of majestic Mt.

Shasta, its snow-capped peak towering 14,350 feet into the clouds. :

Then comes Oregon, paradise for huntsmen and anglers. And there is the never-to-be-forgotten blue wonder of Crater Lake, reached by either the coast or valley routes. Traveling still northward through Oregon, the tourist reaches Portland. And there he may choose between a drive eastward along the Columbia River gorge, with a visit to famed Bonneville Dam, or northward to Seattle, Mt. Rainier, the Puget Sound country and British Columbia.

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Trip to Exposi tion

California’s famous redwood trees, north of San ‘Francisco, will be seen by many Exposition visitors. re :

O. matter which is chosen, . veteran travelers agree that. no trip through the Pacific North-

west is complete without a visit to Glacier National Park, on the Canadian border. And from there

the tourist may drive north into °

the Canadian Rockies. Otherwise, he likely will head sotithward to Yellowstone Park. All this, of course, may be in inverse order. You may want to

come to the Exposition via the North and return through the

Southland. That is a matter of

choice, though travel experts advise that for your own comfort you should be guided somewhat by the time of the year for which you plan your trip, it being more pleasant to drive the Southern highways in the winter, those farther north in the summer. The white-walled Bagdad that has risen from San Francisco Bay to become the Golden Gate International Exposition is far from being: the only attraction San Francisco has to offer its millions of 1939 visitors.

The Cliff House, : Chinatown, .

Golden Gate Park, Fisherman's Whar{—these have won worldwide fame. And there are many

other less-widely known points of

interest in and around the city.

Seasoned travelers have estimated that a week can be spent in Golden Gate Park alone without seeing all its attractions. Painstakingly reclaimed from a waste of sand dunes, the park has 1100 acres of wooded walks and bridle paths, a dozen lakes, buffalo and deer paddocks, three museums and one of the finest aquariums in the world. : Chinatown, with its priceless jade and brilliant knick-knacks, its gilded pagoda roofs and strange, dark alleys, is one of the city’s most-famous spots. And. Fisherman’s Wharf is remembered by gourmets and artists alike for the steaming crab pots and bowls of delicious ciopinni, and for its brilliant: coloring at dawn, - when- - blue-hulled: -crab

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to View Scenic Wonders of Great West

Many a Fair visitor will stop off to watch Yellowstone's amazing: : + geysers,

Yellowstone Nat. Park

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boats and purse seiners chug in from the sea. The hills of San Francisco and the cable cars that crawl up their sides are equally famous. These

hills offer magnificent “vistas. To stand on Sutro Heights and gaze first at the rocky portals: of the Golden Gate and then at the Cliff House and Seal Rocks, flanked by miles of shining beach, has been called the experience: of a lifetime. From Telegraph Hill, used in pioneer days as a station to signal the arrival of the clipper ships, the visitor can look down on the . waterfront. and the movement of - goods from the far corners of the earth. San Francisco’s bridges are among its chief attractions. To drive across. the Golden Gate Bridge, world’s longest suspen= sion span, arched above a ‘milewide gap in the coast-line, is a thrilling experience. And you can travel the six miles of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge either by auto or in swift interurban trains - that . glide along 200. feet: above: the. waters of the: Bay.

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‘AN FRANCISCO is a city of surprises. Lombard; St., which, ascending an almost sheer cliff, twists itself into eight hairpin curves in a block, is the crookedest street in the world. And Ashburton Ave. is no stately .thoroughfare bordered by tall palms and aristocratic’ dwellings — it’s half a block long and eight feet wide. x And where else would you find an Adam St. and an Eve St. within .a few blocks of each other? Or an address like “1 Polk and 2 Fell”? Because of its climate this city has become a year-round sports There are eight golf courses within ‘the city’s limits and a dozen in the nearby areas.

The. city abounds in tennis courts. *

It ‘has the largest outdoor swim-

ming pool in the world. You can.

take a horseback ride of 40 miles ‘without leaving the city. ‘And every week-end thousands of an-

'glers go out on the Bay or up the

coast for: striped bass and salmon. The country around San Fran-

.cisco has many attractions. In the

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spring the hills are carpeted with orange poppies and purple lupine springing through the lush grass, while the nearby Santa Clara Valley becomes a mass of blossoms when the prune and apricot and peach orchards come into bloom. Within a few moments’ drive of San Francisco are the Muir

Woods, where stately redwood trees arise from a carpet of ferns. To the south, near Santa Cruz, is Big Basin, home of another and larger grove of redwoods. Visitors will find adequate accommodations during Exposition year, for 75,000 rooms have been made available. Further information on hotzals, apartments, motor courts and trailet space can be had from tlhe Convention & Tourist Building, Exposition Auditorium, San. Francisco. This bureau has a word of advice echoecl by other agencies. It is this—don’t come to San Francisco at any time of the year without a light overcoat. Because it is surrounded on three sides by water, the city is always pleasantly cool, even in July and August.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the capital of the Philippine Islands. 9—When should wedding announcements be sent out? 3—What well-known sportsman’ and owner of the New York Yankees baseball club, died - recently? an 41s a child born to American parents, temporarily residing . +) abroad, an American citizen? 5—What is the correct pronunciation of the . word interment?

the name for the : side of a right-angled triangle cpposite to the right angle? : . ; 2 2 = Answers 1—Manila. 2—Immediately after the wed-

ding. 3—Col. Jacob Ruppert.

4—Yes. : 3 ‘ 5—In-ter’-ment; not, in’-ter- ~~ ment. Xora 6—Hypotenuse. ® 2 os

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Our Tow By Anton Scherrer

On Mr. Sprengpfeil Who Headed

~ Tympani Section in Opera House.

F you're old enough to remember what the inside of English’s Opera House looked like, say 40 or more years ago, you'll recall LHenry Sprengpfeil, the bearded gentleman

partment. 1 don’t see how it’s possible to forget him. :

and kettle drums, but everything else in the way

realistic noises. Like the cymbals, for instance, and the triangle, castanets, celesta, Xylophone and bells, to say nothing of half a dozen whistles capable of imitating anything from a nightingale to a loWhy, he even had a revolver in his kit. Not only that,

score called for a gun. It’s a fact; ( the proscenium back of the brass pe section was peppered full of holes. mr. Scherrer, It scared the trombone player half to death. Mr. Sprengpfeil’s department was situated player’ and Mrs, English’s box. {

When Mr. Sprengpfeil had all his tools groupe

into the audience. Like the time the score called for a baby’s cry. Mr. Sprengpfeil, it appears, had tried everything to imitate a baby’s cry, but to no avail, There wasn’t an instrument that sounded anything like the real thing. At any rate, not good enough |

with a babe in arms to the theater and had her placed in the front row opposite the drums. When Reinhold Miller, the conductor, gave the sign, Mr, Sprengpfeil leaned over the rail and pinched the kid. Sure, the baby did its part. a | There was the time, too, when Robert Downing

It was a mighty spectacular performance and so Jampacked with gorgeous scenery that it took mora than 15 minutes to set the third act. Which, of course, necessitated a long wait between the scenes. ‘To keep the audience in good humor, Mr. Miller had the orchestra Island.”

A Slight Lapse of Memory

because it was long, but because it called for every conceivable noise in the tympani department. Indeed,

Mr. Sprengpfeil’s repertoire. Believe it or not, it was a noise to imitate the whizz and sputter of skyrockets, It. didn’t bother Mr. Sprengpfeil in the least. -He went to Joe Gardner, the tinsmith, and had him make

skyrockets. Then he got some fuses and spent hours at home timing the things to see how long it would take for the skyrockets to go off after the fuses were lit.: After a series of experiments, it was pretty well established that the skyrockets would start shooting if lit three bars before Mr. Miller gave the sign. : When it came time for the actual performance, however, the skyrockets didn’t go off. The piece was 8 dud as far as Mr. Sprengpfeil was concerned. Then the curtain went up and Mr. Downing started to act. He had just caught his stride when Mr. Sprengpfeil’s can of skyrockets let loose. Not only that, but they shot all over the stage bringing the performance to.a standstill. What had happened was that the fuses were too long this time. Seems, too, that Mr. Sprenge

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story had not Adolph Schellschmidt told it the other ag. He crosses his heart and hopes to die if it isn’t e truth.

Jane Jordan— Poor Youth in Love With Spoiled

| D ro JANE JORDAN—I am a young man of 24, For the last year and a half I have been dating a girl who always has been accustomed to money, Her mother is a title-hunting hypocrite who is search~ ing for a husband for her daughter, leaving me in

even though she is reckless, vivacious, spoiled and the devil's double, who has tried my last ounce of pa tience, I am positive that I love her. ; : She told my brother that she simply adored to se me angry, and hinted that she returns my love, If she loves me, why does she continue to throw our dates over and run out with substitutes? Once I followed her on one of her escapades, but decided that if she wanted me to chase her she would have to buy my shoes and gas. I think she does it for spite, just to make me jealous. I socked one of these substitutes in public, and laid him up in the hospital with a broken jaw and myself in the “brig.” Now I wonder if I should not have socked her instead.

make her come down to earth and live with a come mon, working, tax-paying guy like myself, if possible, Should I just ask her outright, or give her what she has been begging for, the one spanking of her life? She has so often tempted me, and my 6 feet 2 inches, .190 pounds, would sure back me up! I've often heard and read that women love to be swept off their feet, What do you think? .

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of a brash, swaggering, blustering male when I already know that he is quaking with uncertainty which he believes he can conceal if he makes enough noise. Besides, I'm inclined to agree with you. The girl likes yout Jough masculinity or she wouldn't provoke you te rawls. : : It is true that most women like to be mastered. I do not believé that your girl is any exception. Civilized women would find your methods a little crude, hut if they’re satisfactory to your girl, why bother with sub= tleties? If you would like to improve your technique | a bit, you might read Shakespeare's “Taming of th Shrew.”

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on more than two dates before he bores me. Do you

for me? Someone with whom I will fall in love? TROUBLED.

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in charge of the orchestra’s tympani de-

Mr. Sprengpfeil not only handled the snare, bass = of

around him, he took up as much room as the whale string section. And sometimes he even spilled over

suit Mr. Sprengpfeil, and so he brought a woman

pfeil in his excitement had failed to fasten the cover

Answer—Far be it from me to decry the methods

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am 18 years old, attrace tive to both young and married men, but none of them appeal to me. I can’t go with any one fellow

suppose that there is someone in this world waiting

Answer—At least I wouldn't give up the search’'a$ I do not know whether your alleged boredom covers up a fear of men, or whether the men you've

VV/EETEER or not we agree with his various ‘pros nouncements we must all admit that, as a

among the best. HE DIS TIN PINIONS OF MISTER WESTBROOK PE (Scribner) is a cole lection of his articles, Mr. Pegler’s comments are bit: ingly sarcastic and deligh E §

brought a play called “The Gladiator” to English’s,

play a piece called “A Trip to Coney

It was right up Mr. Sprengpfeil’s alley not only .

it called for a brand-new noise, one that wasn’t in

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Daughter of Wealth Asks Advice, .

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