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Advice From Headquarters
Jimmy Durante thinks the following is the funniest story he has heard for months. He tells it like this:
A man got a violent headache so he called his Doctor and asked him what to do for it. The Doctor told him to lie down, and put a hot pack on his head.
He did, and the headache grew much worse. Just then their maid asked him what the trouble was, and he told her. She said:
"That's the wrong kind of pack for a headache. Put an ice pack on your head."
Watson Cross, Veterqn Lumber Sclesmcrn, On Vacation
\\r. Watson Cross has bcen sellirrg u'holesalc lunrlrcr for the Consolidated Lumber Company, of \\lilrnington ancl 1,os Angeles, for the past 32 years, having started u'ith them in 1918. He trar.cls the territory fronr Szrnta Barltar;r to San 1)iego, and nunrbers his good lrrmller clealer friends by the hundred, through his lorrg years of friendly servicc. He is reputed to lte one of the most popular salesn.ren in
He did, and the headache stopped. So he called his Doctor and told him he thought he was lousy, since the hot pack he had recommended made the headache worse, whereas the ice pack the maid recommended cured the headache. The Doctor said: thc tcrritorl', and one r,,,'ho knon's his business thoroughll'.
"Did your maid tell you to use the ice pack?"
"She certainly did !"
"That's funny," said the Doctor. "It was our maid that told me about the hot pack."
Ilight nos' NIr. Cross ancl his rvife are I'acationing in Northerrr Clalif ornia, making their headquarters at the I):ake-\\/iltshire Hotel irT San Francisco. In that territory he has been follou'ing his favorite hobby by calling on a number of ltrominent orchid producers and hybridizers. I-Ie has been an enthusiastic student of orchid culture most of his life. Some nren ltlay golf, others fish for their sidelines. X{r. Cross raises orchids, and gets much pleasure out of that oursuit.