RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31113, 16 July 1966, Page 42

RANDOM REMINDER

PAPER WAIT

One of the few compensations for the miseries of mid-winter—the luxury of sitting in a warm bed in the morning and reading “The Press.” It needs only a telephone call to arrange regular, early delivery, for those who have not yet availed themselves of this splendid service, and an instruction to your wife to get out of bed and get the paper in for you. This may be the more difficult part of the preliminary organisation.

Occasionally, there is still some difficulty with southerly storms and neighbouring dogs; and the other day a subscriber complained to ber neighbour that the paper was wet. But as he went off to work a few minutes later, be saw a dry paper on the path and took it to her door, and knocked. No alderman, being presented with an illuminated address after eight years of lording it over the finance committee, could have displayed more dignity in accepting a well-

deserved tribute than the woman. But by now the man was curious and he asked if she had two morning papers delivered and if so where was the wet one. She produced the wet paper, rather reluctantly. It was a copy of an evening paper, which had not been picked up from the path the previous evening. There are several morals to this story. More important, “The Press” telephone number is 69-799.