Nurse

In Charlottesville, Va., Alex Holliday, six and black, left in charge of a neighbor's baby, put the baby in a stove because it cried for its mother, hid under bedcovers as the baby burned to death.

Annoyer

In Manhattan, Peter Mathews, writer, awoke to find his bedroom door jammed shut. The telephone was in another room. Peter Mathews heaved, tugged, pried, cursed. Across the area way from his window was an office whence he endeavored to attract attention by throwing quarters, dimes, pennies, pencils, erasers, matchboxes, paper clips. No one paid any attention. Peter Mathews, smart, then tied an inkbottle to the cord of his bathrobe, lowered it out of the window, banged it on the window below. A startled old lady appeared. In ten minutes disheveled Peter Mathews was rescued by policemen who arrested him for annoying the old lady.

Succotash

In a Manhattan restaurant Miss Alice Weigel, eating succotash, bit something hard, found it was a bright new dime. Angry, Miss Weigel called her waiter, showed him the dime she had found in her succotash. "Thank you," said the waiter, smiling as he departed with the dime in his pocket.

Beater

In Klamath Falls, Ore., one Charles Morse was sentenced to twelve and a half days for beating his wife, 60 days for beating his horses.

Free

In Dalton, Ga., Proprietor Laceville Cochran of the Belmont Cafe, no longer able to cater profitably, announced that his food was free to all, put on his coat and walked away.

Fainter

In Chicago, one James Webb earned a good living by fainting on street cars, elevated trains, platform, sidewalks, etc., until kind-hearted bystanders took up collections for him. "I made an average of twelve faints a day," James Webb told Judge John Sbarbaro. Judge Sbarbaro fined him $200. James Webb fainted.

Laxative

In Birmingham, Ala., Epheus and Mary Thomas named their daughter Laxative. Other names given to Negro children, as revealed by 'the Bureau of Vital Statistics: Rosy & Posy (twins), Arcola, Miserable, Roach, Zenobia, Poindexter, Diplomj, Nebuchadnezzar, Mumps, Cleopatra, Love Lycurgus, Measles, Cleop, Island, Moraphine, Shylock, Phemia Initia, Shinola, Truthie, Listerine, Providentia, Etoy, Zeller, Delphine-Richlene, Arcadia, Zebedee, Charity, Orestee-Lennion, Ishman-Julius, Friendly James, Pearlean, Amorous, Dimples, Violin, Mystic Kate, Ivory White, Ivory Shivers.

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