Potpourri by Polk Daniels

[genealogynut]

Howard Courant
July 5, 1928

(Note:  I do not have the entire column, but will post what I do have.)

What next:  An Illinois firm is advertising to buy your old false teeth and will pay as high as $10 for  full sets.

If your soul mate and your sole mate are one and the same person, you need not fear the divorce court.

Imitations and substitutions are frequently dangerous.  The dispatches tell of a baby swallowing a rubber nipple and choking to death.

A man who married a perfect treasury found that he had to be a treasury to support her.

In all the list of presidents, there isn't a name so common as Al Smith. And a man names Jones was placed before the convention.

An authority on marriage says dark-haired women marry first, but light haired women marry oftenest.

Sam Blythe says Hoover is a splendid man, "because he was trained by Woodrow Wilson."  I am willing to admit that Hoover is a good man, in spite of Woodrow Wilson.

"I wouldn't know I own a car," said a Howard man, "if it were not for the repair and gas bils my children run up at the garages."

A barber tells us the mother of one ten weeks old baby has already brought it in ten times for hair cuts.

Val Momma tells of a Howard man who asked for some orange sherbet to take home for supper and when told the price per pint and quart, said "Oh, I guess I might as well take a dime's worth."

A young shiek tells me that face powder all tastes alike, and that lipstick doesn't taste at all.

When I was a kid I used to hear some fellow called "a son of a sea-cook," and I didn't know what a sea-cook was. Nor have I ever exactly found out. But today I see in a press dispatch dated Sydney, Australia, that "Jock Garden, leader of striking sea cooks has been arrested, charged with inciting murder."

I believe if I lived up in the First district, I'd vote for Ewing Herbert for Congress.

Most people are "all right in their way," but many of them have "ways" that are reprehensible.

When a man sings his own praises, he is apt to find himself sadly out of tune with his accompanist.

It is said a man can now fly four or five times as fast as a bird.  Isn't it about time he was devoting more time to learning how to light?  A bird can light on a twig.

How many of you Democrats can sing or whistle "The Sidewalks of New York?"  the Al Smith official ode.

...............This is all I have on this particular copy........................