Gum Chewing Girls Bother Movie Fan

1920

Their Jaws Work So Rapidly That His View Is Obstructed

UNIONTOWN, N. Y. — Andrew Touser is the movie bug of the village. Touser has not missed a picture since the show was started five years ago, but he threatens to quit if the management does not draw the line on the girls chewing gum during the performance.

Recently Touser entered a protest. He says that every night several young ladies take seats in front of him; that they do not remove their hats and as soon as they are seated commence to chew gum. Touser states that the girls work their jaws so rapidly that their hats bob up and down, thus obscuring his view. He says it is the bobbing of their hats which bothers him.

Manager H. H. Whaley promised Touser that he would talk to the girls and try to get them to give up the practice of chewing gun in the house.


Oldest Dog Is Registered

Canine Aged 19 Now Has Gray Hair Instead of Black

SANDUSKY, Ohio — The oldest dog in Erie County was registered for taxation here recently. It has just passed its 19th birthday, and is the property of H. M. Andress of Vermillon. When he came to the line in the application for registration referring to color, Andress wrote: "He was black, but he now has so many gray hairs that he is an iron gray in color."

This Fish Chews Gum

Connecticut, 1914

Winsted, Ct., Jan. 2. — Pete, a tame trout in Highland lake, has acquired a taste for sweets and also chews gum.

The fish, following a New Year's dinner of bits of roasted turkey and liver, was given molasses candy, which he chewed until it melted in his mouth. When the gum was dropped into the deep walled spring where Pete lives the year round he quickly took it and began chewing.

Half an hour later he still was chewing the gum while leisurely swimming about in a circle. The trout weighs a pound and a half and will respond to its name and eat from its owner's fingers.