Mother Image. In Denver, Mrs. Martha Martin got a black eye when a stranger walked up and hit her. Said the stranger, apologetically: "I thought you were my mother-in-law."

Is the Doctor In? In Manhattan's Central Park Zoo the chimpanzee Joe suffered a toothache, cooled it off by unscrewing his cage's water pipe connection, thus attracted his trainer's attention, pointed to the aching tooth, had it extracted with a pair of pliers.

The Answer. In Italy, Captain Almon S. Farrar, 51, 35 years in the U.S. Army, filled out a routine biographical form, came to the question "Civilian Occupation," puzzled for a minute, wrote "child."

Lucky Louis. In Detroit, Louis Gheraze, a restaurant counterman, returned $300 he had found on a train. Canadian Railways rewarded him by making his home town of Bothwell, Ontario, a train stop on his days off.

Conscience. In Mobile, Ala., the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad received a money order for $3 from a Michigan man who "wanted to pay for some rocks which I took from your right-of-way 35 years ago for my slingshot."

Supporting Evidence. In Manhattan. Edna Dessau, shot and severely wounded last year by one Dr. Samuel Weinrib, told Judge Jonah Goldstein that she did not care about prosecuting the doctor; she merely wanted the return of her prewar girdle, through which the bullet passed. Judge Goldstein refused on the ground that the girdle was state's evidence.

Mating Call. In Fort Worth, 0. A. Cole, candidate for Congress, filed suit to enjoin his wife from campaigning for the same office, asserted that she should "devote her time ... to the home . . . especially her evenings and nights!"

Copped. In Manhattan, a thief took $402.75 in cash and $262.50 in war bonds from the safe in the Chief Inspector's office at Police Headquarters.

Progress. In St. Louis, Chester Lake, former Rural Electrification official who has been fasting since June 28 in protest against the "political domination" of the area, revealed that his self-denial had cured him of snoring.

Heads Up. In Brooklyn, Joseph Roteno, sprinkling the flowers in his second-floor window box, splashed a few drops on the protruding pate of first-floor neighbor Carmino Peravello, who charged up the stairs and nicked neighbor Roteno with an ax before the cops came.

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