THINGS THAT ANNOY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 19

THINGS THAT ANNOY

The smell of tobacco about the house. Although rather" comforting, it can be perfectly maddening when accompanied by a.trail of ash, in spite of an,ashtray in every room.. And why will he knock his pipe out against the newly-tiled fireplace? -'■■-■ 'A'iid.borrow my"book, just when I've [•cached- tho most exciting part1? His habit of leaving his "den" in a perfect pickle—and then getting awfully upset'at my attempts to tidy it for hini. ' ■ . . Those.splashes of shaving so;i|.> on the bathroom mirror. . Hearing him sing the p'rii'isos of tho .Johusou girl's new "rig-out." wlicn I'm feeling my worst with a bad cold, and looking it in my third best dance frock.. His trick of inviting a pal in to share' "pot-lucJt." on a. washing day! When ho produces unexpected theatre tickets, just b.eforo I'm due for a wave, a manicure ,and a now frock. When he presents me with a beuutiful. silk .scarf that clashes with everyIhing I possess! When he absent-mindedly smokes all my cigarettes. Any little harangues that begin: "You' kuo,w, .mother always used to . . ."■; "mother thinks . . .", and "mother snya ... ■"

A .locomotive recently broke a remarkable endurance record. An engine of the St. Louis-San Francisco railway rolled into Kansas City from 'Birmingham, Alabama, the other day, having covered 51' M mileK without having; its -fire' drawn. It had eclipsed- the old record of 3500 miles covered during a .twenty-day period of continuous Tuuninsc. ■•