 Mumbo jumbo is not gibberish the ironclad warship was invented in 1592 at the age of 92 She sprouts teeth. Can you imagine that? Well my friends This is the first of a whole series of little visits We're going to have together during the next few weeks That is if you will allow us the pleasure of coming into your homes and chatting with you every now and then This is Lindsey McCarrie talking to you and my little playmates And I think we've dug up quite a spectacular array of little known facts and fancies Some of them not so fancy, but nonetheless amazing and they're all facts Yes, indeed every one of the statements and dramatizations. You're about to hear are according to all available sources Absolutely true. So if you'll make yourselves comfortable, we'll be back in a trice We're of the general hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee April 14 1938 a couple of nurses are standing by the call board talking to an intern when Now who's that? It's 392. Oh, that's not Mary poor old soul. She's so patient that fall She had about four years ago just about later up permanently well I'll go see what she wants. Hey Lester. When did 364 have his last hypo? Just ten minutes to go What well, I wonder what's happened to our Mary come on. Let's we may need help What? What are you talking about now? Don't you laugh now young man? Yes, it's true I'm teasing Look see here Well, I'll be it is true. She's sprouting a new tooth Yes, sir old Aunt Mary rule 92 years old was sprouting a new set of teeth the doctors explained that although it didn't happen very often Such a situation generally was caused by a failure to replace baby teeth in childhood And you imagine that I'll bet there won't be any water under her bridges Say I just happen to think we think our navies are pretty smart We look at those leviathans of war steaming past and we marvel at those almost impregnable holes of steel But you know we're not so clever no sir 400 years ago the Koreans Oh, but I'm getting ahead of my story here in the 16th century Korea was under the control of China as usual Japan was looking with envious eyes on anything controlled by her ancient rival and suddenly invaded the little peninsula country with 300,000 men well China came to the rescue and during one of the many bloody naval battles the commander of the Korean Navy Yee Soon-Sin was standing on the deck of his flagship Return what is that sound I do not know if it's not under cool I know it is not thunder look there is smoke coming from that Japanese ship Excellency one of our ships is sinking and the ships of Japan. He's no way near it. I know I know what they are doing In a recent battle on land the Japanese have used strange weapons that shoot small balls of metal into the hearts of our soldiers Now they are using larger weapons of the same kind to sink our ships Return! Excellency! Give the command to turn about and return to port. Our ships are faster than those of Japan We can escape them this time, but we will come back. We will come back and come back He did yes, sir some time later Yee Soon-Sin commanding a new ship built to his order Sailed into the midst of the Japanese Navy I shall see The leading ship of Japan is coming nearer soon. They will shoot their balls of iron toward us. Then we shall know Let me look We are safe! The ball of iron has only dented our hull Return! Give the command to sail full speed into the center of the Japanese We will win this battle for Korea Yes, sir They did win too because Yee Soon-Sin had built himself a boat with a wooden hull But plated on the outside with sheets of iron and the cannonballs of the Japanese had little effect Can you imagine that? During that six-year bloody war the Japanese used firearms for the first time against a foreign enemy and Yee Soon-Sin Invented the first ironclad warship Say, what's that big African native doing? He's just giving utterance to a little mumbo-jumbo. And that's where you're wrong That's gibberish or jargon many people think that that's the meaning of mumbo-jumbo, but it isn't well in Z What is mumbo-jumbo? Originally it was a little tough door pom-pom worn on the hats of the men of some of the Negro tribes of the western Sudan and They wore their mumbo-jumbo's to frighten their women and keep them under firm discipline. Can you imagine that? Well, here's another little tidbit. We dug out of the past on January 3rd 1912 Charlie Powers a clerk in the city of Stockton, California Decided to have himself a time in the big city of San Francisco Consequently he spruced himself up had his hair cut donned his new shepherd's plaid suit red tie and brown shoes with the pearl buttons and Headed for the Bay City aboard the old steamer pride of the river there He curled himself up on a birth but alas He forgot to lock the door of his cabin as the boat was docking Charlie awakened Oh my clothes my new suit my new shoes But he's a stowa what's going on here? It's that man person. He's a stowa. Oh, I'm no stowa Somebody stole my clothes. Yeah likely yarn fellas. Come on. Come on off the boat with you Charlie powers his clothes appropriated they found himself with an old pair of badly ward Brogans and the rags of a night of the road nothing more and in the pockets of his stolen suit was all the money He had saved for his holiday. So he made his slow sorrowful way to the freight yards to catch a ride on the rods Hey, where you heading? Oh stocked up me too. Come on. Here's a string going up in about ten minutes Come on. Oh, here's a couple of nice clean rods. Okay, so how do you? Hey My clothes that bombs got my clothes You're the one that stole my clothes give them to me Out of the crowd that quickly gathered store the strapping San Francisco policeman separating the competence He escorted them to the city Bastille where Charlie powers retrieved his clothes and some of his money Wending his homeward way remarked Charlie with admirable philosophy Never again Stockton's good enough for me Can you imagine that? One of the most interesting and enjoyable phases of this series of can you imagine that is going to be the revelation of some odd facts Concerning some of your favorite musical numbers. Here's the first one I'm going to ask our quartet to give you about eight measures of a grand old hymn in the garden as you hear the melody See whether or not you can associate it with an extremely popular number composed almost 35 years ago Do you hear the similarity in that hymn to an old popular ballad Well, those eight bars are identical to the first eight bars of oh, but wait a minute listen to this Yes friends, it's my gal cell written by Paul dresser and poor big-hearted Paul never lived to know the tremendous Enthusiasm with which his last song was later greeted He was sure it would be fully a successful as his great song on the banks of the Wabash far away But he had loaned so much money to former friends and associates in show business that he couldn't afford to push it And he died without sharing in its ultimate great popularity On the front cover of the original song copy by the way is a picture of a very attractive young lady The young lady who first sang my gal cell a young lady whom dresser so respected that he allowed her to use his name as a stage name Have you guessed who she was? Yes. It was the famous actress Louise dresser. Can you imagine that? Yes, indeed and until then this is Lindsey McCarrie bidding you goodbye, which is really just an abbreviation of the warmer farewell God be with you