Monday, Jan. 20, 1936

MISCELLANY "TIME brings all things"

Upkeep

In Bay City, Mich., Worthy L. Churchill's will left $500, the income to be used to keep his old gold watch running.

Toilers

In Manhattan, young Socialite Medora Roosevelt, having told newshawks last month that coming-out parties were "the bunk," found her own coming-out party disappointing. With her brother and two young friends, she left it, went to Childs Restaurant for supper. On the way out, the four discovered they had no money. "We'll wash dishes for our supper," announced Medora. The manager wrung his hands, pointed out that he already had a professional kitchen staff. The determined four marched into the kitchen, seized mops and began swinging them under other diners' feet. Hovering unhappily, the manager suggested that the two girls were getting their gowns dirty, that Childs was willing to forget the whole thing if they would leave. "No charity," asserted Medora. Finally her escort proposed a check in payment, which the manager hastily accepted.

Love

On small Tsushima Island, Japan. Jiro Tanaka, 21, fell in love with Sumi Chan, 19, a prostitute. Protesting that he could not afford to patronize the "restaurant" where she worked, he took her away and secreted her for a month, under the floor of the bicycle shop where he worked. Summoned to appear for a military examination at his native village, Toyomizu, 75 miles away, and still in love and poor, Tanaka bought a steamship ticket home, packed his girl in a box and took the box aboard. The box was delivered to a lodging house in Hakata, made odd little noises which persuaded the proprietor to call police.

Rest

In Tuscaloosa, Ala., a family council of kin of Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth Scott, 75, who had just died of pneumonia, decided to bury her in Little Sandy Cemetery near her Taylorsville home five miles away. Bitterly her son Hugh, 57, World War veteran protested that her dying wish had been to be buried in nearby Nazareth Cemetery. Overruled, he stalked into the night. Near dawn he returned, burst in among the kinsmen keeping the death watch, brandished a shotgun, picked up his mother's body and ran outside. He flung the body across the pommel of his horse's saddle and galloped away. A posse found him in Moody Swamp, his mother's body in a ravine. Police forced frightened Negroes to dig a grave in Little Sandy Cemetery, into which the family council laid Mrs. Scott.

Set

In Jenkins, Ky., Mrs. Lawrence Triplett, 32, gave birth to her third set of triplets.

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