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By Ed Sovola

“ALTHOUGH these remarks will not. be sufficient in themselves to make you a gentleman, yet they will enable you to avoid any glaring impropriety, and do much to render you easy and confident in society.” i Who sent me “Hints on Etiquet and Usages of Society with a Glance at Bad Habits?” Is somebody trying-to give me the business? Even my best friends haven't indicated that “hints” were needed. . ‘ There are some mighty peculiar suggestions’ in the book which leads me to believe some one is pulling my leg.:Aywyos, the man who authored the- book, says “Never introduce people to each other, without a previous understanding that it will. be agreeable to both.” HOW WOULD you like to run around getting your friends to agree that.an introduction you're going to make will be gingempeachy to all concerned. “Silly. Aywyos also recommends no introductions while walking with a friend. If an acquaintance comes along ta -bum a. cigaret, don't start a round of hand-shaking, Brush the jerk off. _ “Never make acquaintances in coffee-houses or other public places. As no person who respects himself does so, you may reasonably suspect any advances made to you.”

IF A MAN followed those rules he'd sure have a whale of a time, especially in a coffee-house, (Mr. Anonymous, I hope you don't practice such

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ETIQUET—Aywyos and his rules would ruin us in a week.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Dec. 17—“It's a good idea to praise your wife occasionally,” somebody said, “although you may scare her quite a lot at first.” Now that it’s getting on to Christmas, I want to straighten you out about the B.W.—or Beautiful Wife. You might get the idea she's rattleheaded. “Rosemary’s the right Wilson, Earl's the wrong one,” say people who know. She keeps the books, pays the bills, tries to pay the taxes, hands me carfare and lunch money, and is remarkably stingy with “her” money. She won't even let me write a check. Says I don’t know how. On one of the rare occasions when I wrote one, the bank sent back a note saying: “Who is this?” It wasn’t aware of me. The B.W. trots to openings with me, often staying up ti! 4 a. m., but manages to roll out at 7 and get Slugger off to school. La a

SLUGGER had a birthday the other day and it reminded me of something I wrote five years ago. I said . .., well, here it is ... . “, ,. On Dec. 1, 1942, the B.W.. had been in labor for 10 hours. It was getting dusk on that blustery day. “A nurse slipped up to me at Woman's Hospital and asked me for a sample of my blood . .. ‘in case a transfusion is necessary.’ “ Ig jt likely to-be?’ I asked anxiously. She didn’t answer. “I went back into the waiting room where my

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Dec. .17—In the dingy disarray of the public scene, in which nobody seems to have done anything right for some tinfe, it is nice to note that Mr. Joseph DiMaggio quit on top of the'hill. Quit before he was shoved—quit while he still had the dignity that has always marked him, quit while he still had the bargaining power to stay. The last hit that Joe made as a member of the New York Yankees was a stinging double that had all the character of a triple. He didn’t have to hit it, with the series won, and a personal record of timely smacks and vital walks ahead of it. He got thrown out on a semisloppy try at third, and when he walked off the field they cheered him.

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VERY FEW of us, and especially athletes, get an opportunity to quit with all the flags hung. The politicians run for that one extra office. The generals go to pasture on the board of directors for some company they smiled at when they were working for the wars, The writers write the one extra book, the one they shouldn't have tried with blunted touch. The boxers collect on the extra clout on the chin, and the wonderful memory is erased by the embarrassing picture of a tired old man with his foot tangled in the ropes. Dimag has done more things right than nearly anybody I know, in any racket. What he has done wrong he has kept largely to himself. He has had an amazing amount of good luck, and an amazing amount of bad luck that he largely minimized by silence.

T think he has been the outstanding example of athlete and gentleman the country has produced. Maybe Bob Jones can contest this title, but nobody else occurs ofthand as a competitor.

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WHILE we smother.in the stench from Washington, it is possible to gasp a breath of fresh air by condidering Giuseppe Paul DiMdggio, the young man from Martinez, Cal; whose childhood companions are mostly in jail, Apart from an understandable reaction to early success in the majors, out of which he collected at least one stern lesson I know of, the man behaved with none of the florid foolishness that generally attends a rapid ascent to adulation. He even managed to steer himself through an unsuccessful mariage with no loud discredit e parties concerned. ho edt of the time since he came back to the Yanks, after three years of war, he has played while suffering from some bitingly painful ailment, and has still managed to -provide more value when it was needed than a quartet of the healthy ones.

Even operating at half-speed he was able to generate the right spark at the right time. _ He would go half a season, halt and lame, and “suddenly explode when you had to have him. The Yankees of the recent DiMaggio era were

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“When a man marries. jt is understood that all former acquaintanceship ends, unless he intimates a desire to renew it, by sending you his own and his wife's card, if pear or by.letter, if distant, If this be neglected, be sure no’ further, dealings are desiréd.” Aywyos, you're killing. me. I've heard a lot of stories about finger hpwls

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new twist. (I'm going to try to spell his name backward and see what happens—8Soywya— Aywyos. As silly as his etiquet hints.)

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“FINGER GLASSES,” Aywyos says, “filled with warm water, come on with the dessert: Wet a corner of your napkin, and wipe your mouth, then rinse vour fingers; but do not. practice the filthy custom of gargling your mouth at table, albeit the usage prevails amongst a few, who think, because it is a foreign habit, it cannot be disgusting.” Ol! Aywyos, obviously a non-smoker says some pretty rough things about us smokers. I smoke because I enjoy it. My cigaret money. doesn't come from mooching. It isn't funny to be told “If you are so urifortunate as to have contracted the low habit of smoking, be careful to practice it under certain restrictions (behind a barn, Aywyos?): at least, so long as you are desirous of being considered fit for civilized society.”

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HE ALSO says a “tobacco smoker, in public, is the most selfish animal imaginable.” He suggests that the first mark of a gentleman “is a sensitive regard for the feelings of others so if you must smoke, wash your mouth and brush your teeth after using tobacco.” Anyone who smokes “is a fitting inmate of a tavern.” Yeh, man, put that in your boiler and smoke it. Surely this is a joke. Confess, speak up, friend or foe who sent me Aywyos who tells me “never be seen in cigar divans or billiard rooms; they are frequented at best, by an equivocal set. No good can be gained there—and a man loses his resnectability by being seen entering or coming out

of such places™ How about a bowling alley?

WOMEN will like this. “Never nod to a lady in the street, neither be satisfied with touching your- hat, but take it off —it is a courtesy her sex demands.” * * Aywyos doesn’t have a word about getting run over in Christmas crowds. Just the other day in front of the Power and Light building a woman turned quickly without signaling and knocked me for a loop. My hat was tipped and lying on the sidewalk. Excuse me, ma'am, so glad no bones are broken. I couldn't afford a hospital bill right now with Christmas on my back.

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“pO NOT DRUM with fingers on a table; avoid a loud tone of voice in conversation or a ‘horse laugh’: both are exceedingly vulgar; be cautious how vou take the lead in a conversation...” It’s a brand new book with a 1951 date in it. Sureiy we're not going to put any of that nonsense into practice. It would ruin us in a week. All right, who's the -wise guy who sent the book?

Henpecked Spouse Pens Plaintive Note

mother-in-law, sensing it, was whimpering softly. We looked out the window at the hig cathedral and she prayed. “Then we heard an alarming commotion— screams. ; “ “That's her voice,’ my mother-in-law said. “Out burst a wheeled stretcher and the B, W. was on it, screaming, and two nurses with frightened faces pushed it madly to the delivery room. The screams came piercingly to us, till they died away.

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“MY MOTHER-IN-LAW and I wondered and wondered, with nobody to tell us anything, and we became closer than ever before. But no word was spoken, only occasionally came her frightened sobs. ““THen after some years the doctor said, ‘You have a fine boy who weighs 4 pounds 2 ounces. Your wife is fine . ."'." Well, Slugger’s 9 now, weighs 55 pounds, and hopes to be able to gét through the fourth grade. I hope you didn’t mind going through these labor pains with me. I thought maybe if I wrote this column the B. W. would loosen up the purse strings—and increase my Christmas allowance. Because when I ask her for any of my money now, she”says, “I can’t afford it.” EARL'S PEARLS . . . Nanette Fabray calls success the art of making your mistakes while nobody’s looking. . . . That's Earl, brother.

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People Still Have Class

probably the worst ball team that ever staggered to pennants and World Series victories.

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IN THE 13 YEARS he spent in the big time DiMaggio honed himself into a high state of polish as a person as well as a player. He began as one of the most awkward athletes who ever made it, and his personality was little less awkward than his legs, which appeared to have been sewn on backwards. He rebuilt his awkwardness into a grace that has seldom been matched, and hand-tailored his personality at the same time. No more easily gaited young man appears on the metropolitan scene than DiMaggio, off the baseball field. None of the excesses of personal behavior that stamped Babe Ruth and Walter

Hagen have been publicly obvious. DiMaggio was

never a character, or a pop-off guy.

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HE MADE a few close friends and hung onto them. He allowed himself no luxuries of temperament while working at his job. The closest thing I ever saw to a demonstration out of DiMaggio was a sly wink he slipped some of us when he hit a triple and slid into third after a lengthy batting slump. It is nice, and it is neat, to know that at least one Titan has decided to quit when he still had it, and that he will not be subject to the sneers that usually mark the passing of the great. No brash kid will oust him; you will not see him «in. the post of part-time coach and sometime pinch-hitter. DiMaggio’s decision to quit the game he played so well, as he touched his 37th year, almost makes up for some of the mess in Washington. Some of the citizens stil have class. :

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q-—I had moss roses around shrubbery in my yard. Leaves have collected under the shrubbery and I noticed you said that was a good thing. But

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won't they kill the moss roses? I've always let them re-seed but one year they did not come up. Later I spaded the ground and they did. —Mrs. Sally Powell, 1521 Vinewood. : A—Moss roses or portulaca are such sturdy plants I doubt that your accumulation of leaves will keep them from coming up next spring. Leaves will kill plants such as chrysanthemums and delphiniums by matting down over their tops and keeping air out and moisture in all winter. But your problem involves seeds. For the moss roses grow, as you suggest, from seeds

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likely to smother. In the spring if the layer of leaves is still quite thick, move them off gently 80 the seedlings can grow. Seeds live- under the surface of the ground for long periods (especially weed seeds, don’t we gardeners all know!) That explains why your spading brought on more volunteers.

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By PAUL GUINNESS THE GOOD TIDINGS IN THE beginnirg was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made.

THERE WAS in the days of Herod; the King of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abyah: and his wife was the daughter of Aaron, and her

name was Elisabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. And they had no child, because Elisabeth was barren; and they both were now well stricken in years.

And “it came. to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course—according to the custom of the priest's office his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord, and the ‘whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense — there appeared ‘into him an angel of the lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. And when Zacharias «saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. ” = ” BUT THE angel him: “Fear not, Zacharias; for thy prayer is heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. And thou shalt have joy and gladness, and many shall rejoice at his birth. For he shall be great in.the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neéither wine nor strong drink: and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb. ’ “And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the: fathers to the children, and the disobedient to wisdom of the just; to make

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EDITOR'S NOTE: : Here is told the wonderful, old story of Christmas in a new, dramatic recital. Paul Guinness was a British Army chaplain during the war. He was imprisoned for two and a half years in German camps. During that period his only possession was the New Testament. From it he blended the four Gospels ‘into one running, harmdnious story of the Life of Christ. He used the Biblical language but eliminated the duplications. After the war his remarkable version was printed in England in book form. This is the first of six chapters of THE CHRIST OF ALL NATIONS, recently published in America by the Association Press. Mr! Guinness is now on the staff of the World's Committee of the Y.M.C.A. at Geneva.

ready a people prepared for the Lord." : And Zacharias said to the angel: “Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.” And the angel answering said to him: . “I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and I am sent to speak unto thee, and

to show thee these glad tidings. And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words which shall be fulfilled in. their season.” And the people waited for

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AND IN the sixth month the

angel Gabriel was sent from. God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. And the angel came in unto her, and said:

“Halil, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: Blessed art thou among women.” And when she saw him she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation should be.

And the angel said unto her: “Fear not, Mary; for thou hast found favor with God, And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David; and he shallsreign over the house of Jacob forever; and his Kingdom there shall be no end.”

THEN said Mary unto the angel: “How shall this be, seeing 1 know not a man?” And the angel answered and said unto her: “The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” And Mary said: “Behold the handmaiden of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.” Ang the angel departed from her. (Copyright by Aksociation Press)

TOMORROW: Joseph is Enlightened.

Weather Can Do Anything To You

“Temperature rising, barometer falling, storm clouds moving in from the West. Watch out for melancholia, restlessness, and nightmares.”

CHAPTER ONE

By JACQUELINE BERKE and VIVIAN WILSON

IN °BODY has ever heard the weather reported in quite this way. And yet it is no secret that the

weather can manipulate us as skillfully and surely as a puppeteer maneuvers his wired dolls. ‘

You needn't be especially sensitive or “thin-skinned” to feel the weather and react to it. You know what it's like on a cloudless, sunny day with just a faint hint of wind. Everything is bright and clear. You feel optimistic, invulnerable. = No matter what happens, “everything will turn out all right. On such a beautiful day, everything must turn out all right.

On the other end of the weather scale is the bleak, gray, rainy days: the monotonous fall of rain, hour after hour; the dreariness, the dampness, the chilliness. We are drowsy, dull, irritable, depressed. Does anybody sing in the bathtub on such a day? Physically, weather can give you a headache or a heart palpitation. It can send you to the hospital with appendicitis: On a mental side, weather can interfere with your speed in adding up income tax returns. It can set off a crime wave, major or minor. It can raise or lower your I. Q. = bd »

ALL OF US have off days, when everything we do seems predestined to go wrong. We spill our coffee at breakfast, miss the morning train, misplace an {important letter that must be answered

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EDITOR'S NOTE: The ladies Berke and Wilson are two young mothers who began to study the weather and its effect on people while students at Columbia University. They have continued it since, Here they describe. the Influence the weather has on human beings, according to the latest data collected from scientists and researchers’ with the help of the U. S. Weather Bureau and the American Meteorological Society. This Is the first of a series of five articles from their book, WATCH OUT FOR THE. WEATHER, just publisfed by Viking Press.

immediately, or tangle with a snappy waitress. Dr. Clarence Mills, professor of experimental medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, has spent many years studying the effect of weather on human beings. He goes so far as to say that once we understand the barometer in relation to how we feel, physically and mentally, we'll understand ourselves better. Even before we know all the answers we can benefit by some common-sense advice.

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For instance, ‘people look better to each other and to themselves on a fair-weather day when the barometer is rising. That is the time for patching up lovers’ quarrels or pacifying supersensitive friends. If you pick a dark .overcast day for such reconciliations you will be working against nature. If you are a salesman, don’t be plagued hv guilty feelings if you retreat to a howling alley or a movie house at the first sign of a storm— when the barometer has started to drop. You may as well enjoy the day this way, because even if you make your regular rounds, chances are you won't ring up any important sales. You'll have to work harder, talk faster, promise more, and with it all, your samples will look only half so good." » ” » DAY-TO-DAY weather, then, influences our momentary moods and feelings. Now what about week-to-week, month-to-month, year-to-year weather? That is, what about climate? Climate has helped to mold civilizations. It has determined not only how men eat, dress, and work in their part

And of course “We Three Kings of Orient Are,” which is based on the story of the wise men from the east, who came to worsh

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of the world, but also how they think, feel and worship.

The steady, relentless im- / “the grim character of

pact of climate on the mind of men has produced what many writers have called *national characters.” of One investigator, Ernest Renan, studied the culture of desert people, for pkample, and realized the curious fact that all such peoples br monotheistic they believe An a single God. According to Renan, the uniformity of the desert, the wide stretch of never-changing

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straight cause - and - effect line from climate to character. Climate merely predisposes it; encourages or inhibits, it fosters or retards, It is always difficult to generalize, to attribute specific personality traits to the people of a nation. The temperamental differences between Northern and Southern Europeans are not a matter of casual opinion. The long stretches of damp gloomy days, unbroken by sun or light, have helped to produce

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ig : yhat Sir Archibald Geikie, In /Scottish Reminiscences, called the Scot.” The sun and brightness of Southern Europe have helped to cultivate the free-and-easy, fiery temper of Southern Europeans. And what about the familiar hustle-bustle of the fast-talk-ing, on-the-go, ebullient Amer ican. Outsiders are always surprised and often a little shocked at our boundless vigor, our indifference to rest or relaxation. on ” ” BUT WE MUST not forget that our climate has made this kind of living possible, and that the weather, constantly chang: ing from warm to cold and cold to warm, buoys us up and releases great amounts of energy. In America our personalities and temperaments have become as stormy and vigorous as the weather,

There are dangers in this though. To be stimulated by the weather is one thing; to be overstimulated is quite another, Where the weather's turbulence pushes man beyond his physical and mental capacity, beware. NEXT: Which Are Your Best - Months?

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