Mother In Chicago, Mrs. Lillian Pawloski wanted a divorce because four years ago her husband had eloped with her mother.

Bell In Seattle, investigating a subscriber's report that her telephone bell never rang but that she had learned to answer the telephone when her dog howled in the back yard, Telephone Repairman Roy Handley found the dog chained to the lead-in wires, causing a short circuit which shocked the dog whenever the number was called.

Sins In Senatobia, Miss., when Rev. William McCarty, 96, preached an old-style funeral sermon on the sins of the deceased, who he predicted was on his way to Hell, Mrs. Levy Laird, a relative of the deceased, tore off most of Mr. McCarty's clothes, smashed his hat, scratched him.

Swap In Mexico City's penitentiary, Martinez Carrillo who wanted food & lodging changed clothes with Convict Ruiz Moreno who wanted freedom. Citizen Carrillo went to Moreno's cell, Convict Moreno out into the night.

Darling

In Milwaukee, on a street between two cemeteries, the body of a year-old child, one year dead, was found in an expensive coffin with a nameplate inscribed "Our Darling."

Travels of an Egg

In Baltimore, Edgar R. Dobson bought some "strictly fresh" eggs, found written on one "Hazel Roe, Forest Hill, Md." Edgar R. Dobson ate the egg, wrote to Miss Roe.

Flashback: In 1915 Henry Harlan Pyle drove a team from his father's farm to the Forest Hill general store, chaffed Hazel Roe and Bessie Walbeck who were busy packing eggs for shipment. Playful Henry Pyle tickled the girls, wrote their names & addresses on several eggs. Whenever he went to Forest Hill thereafter he asked the girls whether any egg-eaters had written to them. At length he married Bessie Walbeck, had five children. Hazel Roe married and moved to Belair, Md. There last fortnight she received Edgar R. Dobson's letter.

Meanwhile Edgar R. Dobson was wondering how a "strictly fresh" egg could reach the venerable age of 17 years. Explanation: Washington, D. C. has no law governing storage of eggs. Dealers elsewhere, when the legal time (usually one year, with 120 days grace) for eggs in storage expires, can ship their eggs into Washington, then ship them out again labeled "freshly released from the District of Columbia."

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