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Whether the teaching of the technique of making the home run more smoothly, will be taught from the angle of rearing healthier progeny or whether it merely means teaching a scientific style of handling the rolling pin to enforce domestic law, was not revealed in the announcement of the marital school...
...strangers to each other is indeed curious. Perhaps it may interest your readers to know that I was perusing the article "Birthday Party" under WOMEN, NATIONAL AFFAIRS, when I slapped my thigh in appreciation, as described by Mrs. Phipps. It was Alice Roosevelt's use of a safety pin, so decorously described by your writer, which caused me to exclaim thus. I may own to you frankly my pleasure at being considered "a most distinguished looking old gentleman", epistola enim non erubescit...
...turkey trot, smoked a cigaret. Ladies gasped; I had fun. One afternoon a woman was telling several of us about the miserable condition of her health. Suddenly I asked her: 'Have you ever tried standing on your head? ... It acts like a charm.' I borrowed a safety pin, fastened the hem of my skirt between my knees, put a cushion on the floor, shot my legs into the air, remained poised for a moment. Said I: 'There, you try that every day, and you won't have lumbago or heart trouble.' . . . And only a fortnight...
...Pin Slips. Finance Minister Alberto J. Pani, said to be the only member of the Calles Cabinet whose word is trusted by U. S. financiers, had his resignation accepted last week. For months he has been urging the inexpediency of the Cabinet's confiscatory oil and land program and its suppressive religious policy. A state financier of high ability, Big Pin Pani is also a shrewd political chameleon. He has served under more Presidents than any other Mexican adjusting, himself to the political hue of each, but retaining his reputation as an able administrator. Therefore no surprise was felt...
Representative Huddleston of Alabama said early in the week: "The whole maneuver seems to be something like trying to pick up a pin with an immense pair of blacksmith's tongs...