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LÖGBEÍRG, FIMTUDAGINN 10. FEBRÚAR, 1938
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WE'RE ALL NUTTY
HERE AND THERE
Ry P. N. Britt___
WHEN we come to think of it,
if we ever think of it, most of
us have the most fantastic rea-
sons for the things we do. This
piece is about restaurants and lunch
counters. Some of us go into these
places for the atmosphere of the
place and sometimes we stay out for
the same identical reason. That’s a
peculiarity of people who patronize
eating joints. They are not con-
sistent. Just a bunch of loose screws
or something like that.
It’s often well worth while to walk
in and jump on a stool just to see
what goes on. Some lunch counters
are real comedy strips. There are
laughs right down the line—maybe
some pathos once in a while. It’s
worth anbody’s money, even if you
are not wanting anything more than
a cup of coffee and a pair of sinkers.
I hopped into a place I go off and
on, the other day. Four lads had
just backed off the stools and were
putting their coats on. They were
unmistakably fellows from some of
the outlying towns. One of them
was sort of distressed. He was sorta
coughing and gasping and his chums
were very concerned. I was afraid
the fellow was going to throw a fit
or something, or might be badly in
need oí a gargle to clear his throat.
The thought came to me, too, that
maybe he had swallowed one of his
dental plates. I had heard of fellows
doing just that once in a while.
One of the boys was a friendly-
looking fellow. I felt that he would
not think me nosey if I asked him
what was the matter. He was a
bright, cheerful fellow, too, I found.
He said it did not amount to any-
thing. The fellow who seemed to
have throat trouble had thought he
had swallowed a street car ticket. He
said they had been trying to convince
him that it wasn’t a street car ticket,
that it was only one of those labels
they put on the bottom of a loaf of
bread.
Up to then they had not been able
to convince the lad that the restaur-
ant bread-cutter had been careless
and left the label on the slice of
bread. He said the fellow was ter-
ribly mad and said if he was sure it
was a'bread label he would enjoy
punching the face of the bread-cutter
or the fool alderman who had the
label put on the bread loaf.
* * *
1T is not so many years since Irish-
men were coming to America at
a rate of sixty to eighty thousand
a year. Last year, only about 400
came to the United States from Ire-
land while about 1,000 went to Ire-
land from the United States. The
worm has turned or the tide has
turned or something. Forty or fifty
years ago, when tens of thousands
were leaving Ireland and coming to
the States they were picking up all
the police jobs and the political jobs.
But, it hasn’t been as easy picking
as it used to be, for quite a long time
now. Too many Italians, Germans,
Northern and Southern Europeans,
Jews, Mexicans, Cubans, etc., have
been crowding into the picture. Or,
maybe the Irish are going back to
Ireland to be able to buy a sweep-
stake ticket in peace and free from
the interference of the hypocrites
who want everybody stopped from
doing things that they are doing
themselves right along.
But, Ireland seems to be very pros-
perous, too, at the moment, doing
very well minding their own busi-
ness, and raking in millions from all
u.ver the world for sweepstake
tickets. The other day I noticed
from out in British Columbia there
goes one million annually. While
°ut here the main sport is running
around trying to throw monkey-
wrenches into the cogs of bingo ma-
chines and recreations and indus-
tries in general, which meet with
disapproval of folks in the same line
of business or in opposition to it.
* * *
WHEN I dropped into her place
the other evening, she was por-
ing over the dictionary. She
seemed to be at the dictionary when-
ever I came in. There were always
a lot of cross-word puzzles lying
around. That was her year round
sport, delving into the dictionary.
She said she got a lot of fun out of-it,
and besides she dug up a lot of words
she would never have known about
if she hadn’t got mixed up in this
cross-word puzzle business. I had
never thought of that before she
mentioned it, but it really is a fine
way to increase one’s vocabulary.
Maybe you may have noticed that
a lot of folks have been using the
most fantastic words, words which
you knew they didn’t know any-
thing about or what they were all
about. To say the least, it’s very
entertaining to listen to folks rat-
tling away at words that are away
over their heads. It is quite appar-
ent that they do not know what they
are t.alking about and you can see
that they are watching to1 see if any-
body else is showing signs of know-
ing what it’s all about. Nobody pays
much attention, and the blatherskite
gets away fine. Usually it’s a wo-
man, but some men are good, too.
Well, this woman who was work-
ing at the dictionary this time was
not like that. She knew her stuff.
She truly enjoyed digging up new
words, just as much as one enjoys
finding four-leaved clovers or
something like that. She also got a
big kick out of seeing jabbering
phonies getting words mixed up in
their dental plates, an indication that
a pronouncing dictionary might do
them a lot of good maybe.
But, she wasn’t looking for cross-
word puzzle words this time, she
said. There was a nosey person at
the bridge club the other even'ing,
and one of the regular girls, under
her breath, had called the fresh per-
son a “Quidnunc.” That was a new
one on all the girls, and they were
probably all looking it up as she was
in the dictionary. She found it:
“Quidnunc”—One curious to know
everything that passes; one who pre-
tends to know everything that goes
on.
Okey, she said, I see her or her
sister off-and on and here and there.
And, she closed up the dictionary,
and called it a day.
* * *
1T is remarkable that during all
the years they have been delving
around to find some new revenue
producers, it’s only at this late date
that someone has mustered the cour-
age to suggest syn-tax. The actuaries
will have a tough time getting the
correct figures on that one if it hap-
pens to be adopted in Alberta or
somewhere. It will be interesting to
watch it getting a tryout anywhere.
* * *
HE stopped on the street corner
and was holding out his left
hand and feeling the back of it
with his right hand. I thought he
was shaking hands with himself. As
I came along, he drew in his hands
and put them in his pockets and sort
of excused himself. “It’s all right,”
he said, “the sun’s getting a lot hot-
ter. It won’t be long now.” He
seemed to think that he would soon
have to be getting out his garden
tools.
Um afl að ræða ? Á því tímabili seni
Urn ræðir, var það leikur ungra
^hanna í Reykjadal og Kinn að snúa
niður gripi; til þess þurfti snarræi
niður gripi; til þess þurfti snarræði
sveitum þá list nú ?
og bjó'úm í kirkjugarðinum. Eftir
það varð hann aldrei var við stúlk-
una né heldur reyndi hann sama leik-
inn.
J. Einarsson.
£Tt af lestri “Um bein Egiptans.”
•Albert Hallgrímsson, sem eg mintist
u að framan var vinnumaður á Hóli
1 Höföaih.verfi áður en hann byrjaði
>uskap_ Um það skeið þótti óhæfa
_ rota við dauðra manna beinum.
u var Albert alls ekki myrkfælinn
^durvitnamaður á neinn hátt.
lrí^ S'nn jarðarför að Höfða tók
, n 1 laumi hryggjarlið heim með
°S fól undir koddanum, sem
131111 SVaí á; vildi þannig sanna
P1 tum bjátrúna. Um nóttina vakn-
a 1 ^ann hastarlega, fanst ráðist á
^11 SV° var® ehki meir um það.
J *Sta da& lagði hann sig út af um
m' daginn. Þóttist hann vakna og
sa konu koma inn í boðstofuna. Hún
stanzaði innan við dyrnar og horfði
lbert. Þá sýndist honum hún
stækka og ganga til sín. Hann þótt-
!st sja i gegnum likamann og þar í
vantaði einn lið. Áður en hún kom
a ruininu rak hann upp hljóð og
vaknaði.
Urn, nóttina fór Albert með beinið
Or borg og bygð
Allmikill áhugi er nú um þessar
mundir hjá íslendingum sem eru
spentir fyrir “Hockey.” Ástæðan
er sú, að hin árlega samkepni Þjóð-
ræknisfélagsins verður háð þann 18.
febrúar n.k., að Selkirk, Man. For.
stöðunefndin að þessu sinni heldur
þessa samkepni nokkru fyr í ár en
að venju, vegna þess að tilhlýðilegra
þykir að afhénda “Hornið” sigur-
vegurunum á hátíð æskulýðsins þann
22. febrúar n.k.
íslenzkir flokkar frá Gimli, River-
ton, Selkirk og Winnipeg keppa.
Fyrsti leikur verður á milli Gimli
og Riverton og hefst stundvíslega
kl. 5 e. h. Að aflokinni fyrstu at-
rennu taka Selkirk og Winnipeg
flokkarnir til óspiltra mála. Sigur-
vegarar fyrstu og annarar atrennu
keppa síðasta úrslitaleikinn og byrj-
ar sá leikur um klukkan 8.30 e. h.
Dans og góðgjörðir verða á boð-
stólum í Selkirk Community Hall,
að afloknum hockey-leik.
íslendingar eru mintir á að hafa
þetta í huga og styrkja þessa al-ís-
lenzku hockey-samkepni með nær
veru sinni þann 18. þ. m.
Goodtemplarastúlkan Skuld held-
ur almenna skemtisamkomu til á-
góða fyrir stúkuna, miðvikudaginn
16. febrúar, kl. 8 e. h. í neðri saln-
um. Til skemtunar verður söngur
og hljóðfærasláttur gamanleikur og
sólósöngvar, rímnakveðskapur og
kappræður, íslenzkir og enskir þjóð-
söngvar, dans spil og góðar veiting-
ar. Inngangseyrir aðeins 25C. Allir
velkomnir.
Dr. Ingimundson verður staddur
í Riverton, þriðjudaginn 15; þ. m.
Mayor John Queen will speak on
the present Relief Financitig Crisis
at the West End Labor Hall, Agnes
St., at 11 o’clock Sunday morning
next. A good opjxirtunity for Ice-
landic citizens to becorne acquainted
with present financial difficulties
that t'he City is faced with.
We can arrange the financing of
automobiles being purchased.or re-
paired, at very reasonable rates.
Consult us — J. J. Swanson & Co.,
Ltd., 601 Paris Bldg., Winnipeg.
Heimilisiðnaðarfél. heldur sinn
næsta fund að heimili Mrs. P. V.
Sivertsen, 497 'l'clfer St., á mið-
vikudagskveldið 16. febrúar.
All lovers of good literature wili
I>e pleased to leran of the forth-
coming visit to Winnipeg of Prof.
Percy H. Boynton of the University
of Ghioago. Prof. Boynton will
lecture on “American Poetry” at
Young Church on Friday, February
18, at 8.15 p m. Admission to the
lecture, which has been arranged
by the Pœtry Society of Winnipeg,
will be twenty-five cents.
Prof. Boynton received his A.B.
from, Amherst in 1897 and his A.M.
at Harvard 1898. He is a distin-
guished author, publishing his first
book, “London in Ehglish Litera-
ture” in 1913. Twelve works have
come from his pen since then, the
latest being “Literature and Amer-
ican Life” published in 1936.
Prof. Boynton’s best known work,
“The Challenge of Modern Critic-
ism ’ which come from the press
in 1931, is said to have created a
stir in literary circles at the time of
its publication. His Winnipeg audi-
ence can look forward to a stimulat-
ing evening on February 18.
Hjónavígslur
Miðvikudaginn, 2. febr., voru þau
Joseph George Cooney og Bella
Martha Wjait, bæði til heimilis að
Brookkmds, Man., gefin saman i
hjónaband, að viðstöddum nánustu
ættingjum og vinum, að 493 Lipton
St., af séra Rúnólfi Marteinssjmi.
Brúðhjónin fóru skemtiferð til for-
eldra brúðgumans, Mr. og Mrs. G.
H. Cooney, að Brooklands.
Gefin voru saman í hjónaband
þann 3. þ. m., þau Mr. Eyjólfur
Einar Thorsteinsson frá West-
bourne, og Miss Guðrún Sigríður
Thordarson frá Langruth. Hjóna-
vígsluna framkvæmdi Dr. Björn B.
Jónsson að heimili sínu, 774 Victor
Street hér í borginni.
Arshátíð Fróns
Miðvikudaginn 23 Feb., 1938.
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verður haldinn í Kaupþingssalnnm í húsi félagsins í
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DAGSKRA:
Stjórn félagsins skýrir frá hag þess og fram-
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á yfirstandandi ári, og ástæðum fyrir lienni, og
leggur fram til úrskurðar endurskoðaða reksturs-
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ing með athugasemdum endurskoðenda, svörum
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Tekin ákvörðun um tillögur stjórnarinnar um skift-
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á aðalskrifstofu félagsins í Reykjavík.
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skólann. Hún var okkur einkar
kærkaminn gestur. Bæði er hún
alvön kenslustörfum, og svo hefir
hún einnig unnið frábærlega vel fyr-
ir islenzku þjóðina á öðrum sviðum.
Hugsunarháttur hennar er einkar
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Hún ann öllu góðu. Það sem hún
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vægilegt og hefir þegar haft bless-
unarríkan framgang. Að fá svo
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Börnunum til ánægju kom hún í ís-
lenzkum peysufötum. Undir stjórn
Miss Halldórson, þingkonu, sungu
börnin fáeina íslenzka söngva. Siðan
flutti fröken Hálldóra létt og lipurt
mál um ísland. Mr. Arinbjörn Bar-
dal var þar með nnyndavél, svo hún
gat sýnt allmargar islenzkar myndir,
öllum til ánægju. Við erum þeim
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