Judge — January 27, 1923 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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direction, from the waist down, and suffer. EXT to the saloon the old pool room one of the greatest educational forces in the country. Any young man who thought. that Terry “MeGovern knocked out Young Corbett in their first battle at Hartford had only to go to the nearest. pool room to be set straight. Sometimes a fee would be extractec him for the information, but the money was well spent. And in the same room it was possible to ascertain what Ty Cobb batted in 1914. Indeed there was gen- erally somebody around who could do better than that and reveal the future by giving out a dogmatic and assured sta ment as to which club would win the pennant in the year to come. » group has been reduced el of science. The game is the thing. y play intently and accu- rately. In fact for purposes of badinage and fellowship the average pocket billiard parlor is about as useful as the main reading-room in a Carnegie Library. i sae Lay in the Coal Bin by Homer Croy [2282 in talking to my friends, that t of them dislike to run their Guce I myself was in’ that cass. Now I look back on those days with a positive shudder, It is all because 1 have learned to work off my inhibitions on my furnace. Whatever I can not do in the normal course of my life, I take it out on my furnace. It is much more satisfactory than using a member of the family for iis purpose, Also it is overmore quickly: The psychoanalysts say we have in- hibitions which make us miserable, but that if we work them off, once more we will be happy. ‘That is my plan, If my wife wants me-to take her tothe movies, after TI have come home from a hard day at the office, I now go without complaining. During the whole evening I do not say 2 single unpleasant word, hat when T get honie.-T make the furnace pay for it. I punch it and shake it and bang it more than is safe to do any human being. And it is good for the furnace. It gets the fire going gloriously. Sometimes there are clinkers and I get rid of all the inhibitions I have accumulated for several days. Most men run- ning furnaces dread clinkers; now I look upon clinkers as friends. 1 cultivate them, guard them jeal- ously, for I know that the day is coming whe are going to help me out of a bad hole. If there are no clinkers, I put on the glove with the hole in the finger and continue with my work about the furnace. Sooner or later the hole comes in contact with something hot—and another inhibition is smashed to smith- creens. And upstairs my wife thinks what a splendid job I am doing. She has come to look upon me as being the most capable and painstaking furnace man she has ever known. When some particularly bad inhibition fastens itself upon me, I simply sift the ashes. I have one of those sifters which is guar- anteed to keep the dust down. When I am half strangled my inhibitions do not loom so large. In fact, after finally getting the dust out of my nose, ears, ey throat and lungs, they have appeared as if by magi once a year do I have an inhibi- tion which sifting ashes does not take out of me. When such a terrific one comes along I go up- stairs to the nail in our kitchen where we keep our unpaid accounts and look at our coal bill. — S And then, after all, he misses. = After that 1 haven't an inhibition left: worth mentioning. ass Motorist—Yes, it took me about six weeks” hard work to learn to drive my machine. Pedestrian—And what have you for your pains? Motorist—Liniment. ll Bridge work, which develops nice- ties of engineering calculation. “Pool room” had a sinister sound.