The Motor Scooter

Transcribed. Magnatism, according to Webster, is defined as the power to attract.

For example, a herdy-gurdy on a street corner has magnetism. A not-hold and offensive baseball field has magnetism. So has a construction project and a wet paint sign. But in the kitchen of a certain white frame house on Maple Street, the most effective magnetism known to man is in the process of being generated.

method. Quite simple. Margaret Anderson just puts a couple of eggs and a few cups of sugar in a mixing bowl and cranks up the egg beater. The magnetic sound waves go out and the results are instantaneous. Like this. Hi Mommy. What are you making? A cake. Whose birthday is it? Nobody's. Then why are you making a cake? Do I have to have a special reason to make

a cake? Well no, but I just built in the mood for making a cake. That's all. When I get through you can like the frosting out of the bowl. No thanks. What? I have to watch my figure.

Your figure. At school today, Teddy Wilson called me Chubby. Oh, nonsense. You aren't Chubby. You're just nice and round. That's what he said. I was nice and round like a barrel. Well, I wouldn't let it bother me.

Not a bad looking cake, even if I do face on myself. Mommy. Yeah. Do high heels really make your legs look slimmer? Kathy, stop worrying about it. Hi mother. Hello Betty. Look, the most wonderful thing is, what's the idea of the cake?

Whose birthday is it? It's nobody's birthday. I just took it upon myself to make a cake. I knew it was going to upset the household like this. I'd have made a rice pudding or something.