RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31083, 11 June 1966, Page 44

RANDOM REMINDER

BLS BEAU BRUMMEL

That first bus into town in the morning is not often a cheerful sort of gathering. The workers who use it are just a bit blear-eyed, look just a little as if it is always Monday morning. There is of course a nice homely atmosphere of rolled cigarettes and tarry phrases, and if it is an awful hour of the day, it is not one to lessen the critical appraisal of life of the average working man. Being a professional man is, of course, quite differ-

ent. But even professional men have their problems, like the one who recently wanted to go to a ball which his wife did not care to attend but which he went to anyway, without her: it was a formal affair and it was only by employing all the craft of his kind that he managed to smuggle his dress suit , into his office and there change it before going to s the gathering. I From the function he s returned very late. His wife was asleep. And he i was up betimes next morning: she was still asleep.

Unfortunately this particular professional man has not been a professional man long enough, nor has he been sufficiently thrifty, to have acquired more than one business suit. And that was in his office. So he had to go to work in the dress suit before he could make the change. As we were saying, the first bus into town is not often cheerful. But the presence of the weirdy with the satin stripe down his pants helped a bit. As someone said to his neighbour, it was a queer time of day for band practice.