Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1950 — Page 19

SUNDAY, NOV. 5, 1050

Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola !

. TRYING to locate a feather bed in this town is most discouraging. Would you believe it, some people don't know what a feather bed is? And by feather bed I don't mean a down comforter. I mean the huge white mountain of feathers that made you feel as if-you were on a sea of marshmallow. Or under a sea of marshmallow. : : A buyer in a large department store that handles bedding told me straight to my face that he never heard of a feather bed. What is this world coming to? How could so many people turn their backs on the feather bed? Talking with salesmen and buyers in “sleep -shops” almost made me choke up with nostalgia. Several remembered - their feather-bed days and spoke of them in harsh tones. > IT WASN'T my purpose to hear all about the advantages of modern bedding. But I did. ¥or example, there is supposed to be a movement toward harder mattresses. The men who have the prices on the tips of their tongues, say that bed boards have been selling well “A man goes out and buys a real soft ‘mattress and finds out ‘he can’t sleep or gets a backache. Then hé buys bed boards on the .advice of his doctor. No, there is a definite turn toward mattresses that give a body plenty of support,” a buyer in 4 department store told me. Another. veteran of box springs scoffed: “I remember the feather bed. It was either too hot or too cold. Lumpy darn things. Who wants to

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Don’t Remember Feather 50th Anniversary A Bad Time—Had by All

Beds? You Haven't Lived ST. LOUIS, Nov. (UPJ) — There were more Secret Service

center of a comforter and feel as if you’ re landing officers and cops iy there were idle curious on hand tonight

‘on a cloud? when President Truman arrived for a windup speech of the Demoratic political campaign. : *:' "The extra pre on was proi life in Washington Wednesday plus the fact that found handbill¥ advocating the Cause of the Puert Nationalist Party stuffed in the entrance a downtowr building : :

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eb BH SEVERAL reasons were given me why the feather bed has-disappeared from the American sleeping scene. In the first place, better heating facilities reduced ‘the need for huge amounts of bed coverings. Like one man said, “Now wher a man wakes up in the morning he doesn’t know whether it's ' snowing or raining outside; he ‘ddesn’t know whether it's below freezing or warm enough for seersucker; we need feather beds like we -need corn shucks in our mattresses.” What a blow to hear such talk. There was more. I was told people didn’t want to be bothered with so much bulk. Feather beds need a great deal of sunshine to keep fluffy and fresh. Who wants to haul a feather bed in and out? } a Feathers have become expensive, another man explained, and people have quit raising . ducks and -geese.—He-said-he hadn't heard -of -a@yone saving feathers for 20 years. “Let me show you a foam-rubber mattress and pillow. This beats the ol’ feather bed a 100° different ways,” chortled the fellow. = Sb WELL, foam rubber, central heating, electric blankets may be all right. It.shows we have made progress. ‘I suppose. A touch of a finger

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Mr. and Mrs Ernst B. Johnson . at Scott Al Fore Mr. and Mrs. Ernst B. Johnson, 3866 Bvram Ave. will cele-—brate-their-50th— wedding anni versary froni 4. to 9 p. mu. today in their home. z They have three .C., Leonard E. and Stanley four grandd: Bughers yr and great granddaug Special guests: at family dinner will he the five Suey joing wedding Mns. Johnsen’s sister, Jessie Bristow, and -Mrs xy Garber, of Tadiamapolis; Mrs. J Satterthwaite,. . Detroit, and Mr, Johnson's brothers, Will E.. of Indianapolis, and Robert H.; of Calera, Ala.

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fool with 40 pounds of feathers? Don’t tell me you wart to £0 back to the days of Daniel Boone.” Down-filled comforts were offered to me. Never, never, never can a comforter replace a feather bed. Can you lose yourself in the folds and furrows—-ei+ a comforter? Can you stand in * ‘the middle of the bedroomr and jump into the

Feather bed . #. a man who remembers runs up against a stone wall. There aren't any for sale."

It Happened Last Night

ye By Earl Wilson NEW YORK, Nov. 4—Miss Honeychile Wilder, the 1i't ote Georgia glamour gal—who made the International Set, has just brought back the lowdown on her very newest chum—King Farouk of Egypt. “Ah went duck‘huntin’ with him: at 4 o'clock in the mornin’ when dawn was just crackin’ and almost shot him in the head thinkin’ he was a duck,’ says Honeychile. > “He's a nice guy, funny SAYS. vect jus playgirling, from Ca

as Bob Hope-—and so t back from eight months of iro to Paris to London. “After meetin’ Farouk,” she related, “we rode out to the desert in his big Cadillac drivin’ so fast we had to fasten our seat belts. We walked into a tent”— Honyechile looked around the big cafe where we were sitting and measured it with her éye—'as long as from here to yonder. ow

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thought was a duck the the king's cap. “He was jumpin’ ap and down and I got his I'l ole fez mixed-up wifh the ducks. I thought to myself Ohi amy wgoodnestthip- isthe wend That's all L got to do is Kill the king.’ “Seo I says, "Oh, pardon me, king. I thought you ‘was a duck! The king evidently enjoyed Honey hile's southerfi manner for he didn’t take exception as some <hosts might, to being shot at by a guest. Ct Honeychile, around N. Y. cafes, used to .be irrepressible.- She once’ stuck out her tongue at a judge in court. She objected fo some remarks by Beverly Paterno and threw champagne 1m her face and ine n A Het her have it.” She has become known ¢ amusing gal in the Internat gs want to meet her

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we oo oe “FAROUR,” said Honeychile, “gave—us most wonderful breakfast I ever had outside Gel TEI “with nothin’ but ‘good service. Gold, gold, gold! “My little ole blue eyes was just jumpin’ and

poppin’ and 1 wondered if I could steal some gold : . ‘ Americana By Robert C. Ruark

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vd, which isto say fanaticat Ys: red” for’ playing tie ball games. The outcon the annual Ohio State-Michigan conflict debated more seriously than. atomic _eontrol or the High cost of living. -Ohig's— major teams - like most anajor today, employ a ‘platoon system so extensive that the cbiches send in squads to match the opposition's "physical appearance, II Iowa, say, has a

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-amateur, as we used to know it. Character is molded every week end, and little elsé. The school is Capital University. Its reeord, so far: Heidelberg, 75—Capital, 0; Wittenberg, 82— Capital, 0; Muskingum, 67—Capital, 0; Marietta, 22—Capital 7; Kenyon, 39—Capital, 0. Coach Dale Rose does not play the two-platoon system, largely because he -does not own: two platoons. Rose's men are iron men. Ty have to be. On his last trip-he took only 16 boys along. Leaving hima full five substitutes. Only the dead departed the field. The survivors played en to a stirring moral victory-—75-0-2for the other side. “We enjoy ourselves every day’ says Mr. Rose, Sinmly. “Except Saturd: ay.

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Lo Afr. i OSE, a capable ex-high school coach not quite sure what system his varsity uses, especially since the freshmen beat his Tigers, 2-0, in a scrimmage the other day: The system vaguely is described as a single wingback. “So far as anybody knows we are, the T.” Mr. Rose's team is a monument to honesty

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Are red headed people hot tempered? Professor Hans von Hentig, eminent Inologist—in an article published in the Journal of Criminal Law 4nd Criminology— implies that eedheads tend to be unusually quick-acting. He .explains (partly) ‘the alleged frequency of red-

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heads among famous Wild West outlaws by say-

Ing that redheadedness is often: combined vith “accelerated motor Innervation’. (really, split‘second reactions), and only a man who was quick \ 8 the trigger could survive, In those days. Some

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controls the temperature Fine. But who can ever, if he éver experienced it, forget the breath-taking thrill of diving under a feather bed when the temperature in the upstairs bedroom was an even zero or helow? Who can forget the slow but steady arrival of warmth ag icy fingers gave way to body heat? Who can forget the breathless minutes one would spend without moving musc! a toenail in order not to touch cold parts.of the bed? Who can ijorget the the odor of bacon and coffee filled the bedroom and you almost went batty trying work up enough courage for ?

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winter mornings when to the dash to the kitchen? ’. .

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ANYONE snowflakes in his bedroom, felt icy feet will never forget the dependable, friendly, cuddly feather bed. : Who can forget the. fun of sinking deep within a feather bed until you're almost out of sight and any way you wanted to roll, feathery " hands caressed you? That's life, though. Once a home wasn’t coms plete without a fcather bed. A bride wouldn't be a bride without a feather bed. Today, poofpoof, people don’t even know what you're talking about. There are some of us who still remember the feather bed, aren't there?

Honeychile Can't Tell

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scissors. he souvenir. - “Ah slid the scissors to the edge of the table and was just about to get them in my purse when Farouk. says, ‘Honey, don't steal the hardware! “Ah says, eagle eye for a king! Honeychile then was taken up Maharajahs and a few mere Dukes “Ah went pig-stickin’, or boar-huntin’, with the ;Maharajah of Jodphur, and ah got on top of an elephant and went tiger-huntin' with the Maharajah of Cooch-Behar. Ah don't think a .king does anything, but hunt. “Pig-stickin’ is dangerous because if the boars get mad at you, they'll mess you up! Sow WHILE at a royal wedding in Cooch-Behar, Honeychile was required. to" stay fot several days with only women, that being the custom. “There was one ole tomato there beating a drum and I was getting boreder by the minute. I wanted a drink. Finally. Cooch-Behar sent for me. Did I tear out of there—I jumped over four Maharanees!”

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the Maharajah of Jodphur, tons on his shirt. “Diamonds all the way down Honeyc hile said. “Ah says to the Maharajah: Ah want to do your laundry!” Honeychite; though —married—to—rich—South American Alfredo Cernades (“a charmin’ little character’), ig rumored divorcing him and may stay here and do television. She should! Should do television, I mean. “We need folks like her to liven up the Joint. :

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TODAY’ Ss: BEST L Al GH: A (according to Dennis James) was dreams analyzed by a paythiatrist. One day she told him she hadn't dreamt the night before, “Young lady,” snapped the medico, “I can’t help you if you don’t do your homework!" WISH I'D SAID THAT: It takes two to mike conversation—at least one must listen and nod. That's Earl, brother.

No Platoon System, “Just Guis—Losses

and sportsmanship. No scholarships are handed

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you again my desire to do everything in my power to operate an efficient Treasurer of State's office for the coming two years. "Your vote for me is a vote for the cause of good, clean, honest government.”

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“to. deserving coal miners from-Pennsylvania-to help them with their studies. Half of Mr. Rose's team never—played high school ball; the other half played, but never made the first team. Practice, too, is a sometime thing on Capifal campus. He. cannot use the religious seminary students, and the music student's schedule conflicts with practice, ava Mr. R “You see that there is ATT ay game going on at-one end of the field: The- freshmen are L practicing mon the other side. ANd |t 5.10 we have to get off the field entirely because that is when the coeds play hockey.” Mr. Rose says he has not been harassed by angry alumni, and that all his post-mortem phone calls are sympathetic. This i8 unusual in a state where, .as mentioned, coaches are fired merely for being tied. : > “But then,”’-says Mr. Rose morosely; never been tied.”

Mr. Rose “is overcon-

BEFORE his most recent tragedy, was jubilant. “Kenyon,” he said,

fident.” “If we can’t beat Kenyon we can't beat:

anybody.” him last 39-0. The team is full of amateur spirit. It is also well conditioned. “It has got to be well-condi-tioned,” says Mr. Rose. “If you have an oldfashioned team of 60-minute plavers, and no substitutes, they got to be healthy.” : For this day and age of football, I heard a wonderful quote as I left the field. Two halfbacks were pragticing blocking. ; “Pretend you're a tackle, once,” one boy said. Mr. .Rose smiled wistfully, “the kids are convinced Ld will beat somebody before the season ends,” he said. Then Sesperately; “But who?”

stions from readers on ANY subject wil be

Kenyon beat SEaturday,

answered here. Mail questions to The Times.

of the famous outlaws who are said to have been redheads include Wild Bill Hickok, Jack McCall, Jesse and Frank James, Bob Younger, Sam Bass, Sami.Brown and Mickey Free. criminologists take a dim view of the hair- color ‘theory of crime. How many presidents have died ig the White House? Two. William Henry Harrison in 1841 and

Zachary Taylor in 1830. Four. other presidents

have ‘died in office.

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