Judge — November 8, 1924 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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Our First Crosswords by Don Herold 'HE new Crosswords Puzzle Book has a pencil in its hip pocket, and everything else to make it a complete outfit except a ticket to Reno. (No.3, just out. Simon & Schuster, Pub- lishers. Buranelli, Hartswick and Petherbridge, Editors.) It might at least go so far astocarry an order on the Beaver Board Com- panyforapartition inthe living-room. Mrs. Herold has been missing for * the past five weeks, since crossword puzzles first came into our home. Oh, she has been at home, but spirit- ually gone. Two of our children actually dis- appeared five days ago and she has not as yet noticed it. (I have adver- tised in the Times.) Our stack of bath towels is down to the lowest level it has reached since 1917. I used up my last pair of socks a week ago Thursday. As for my meals, I just eat around. And to think that until five weeks ago we had never had a crossword between us! She was a good girl, too, and a devoted wife and mother, and a homemaker of the old-fashioned sort so rare these days, and her cooking was famous throughout the county. She will be missed not only by her family but by a wide circle of affec- tionate friends and neighbors. She was a skilled horsewoman, an expert golfer and tennis player, a bearcat hemstitcher, and was noted for her COME ON BILL, JUST ONE MORE Our Pugnter B, Vir AR S fas (nosey falta, 4 thie aS a cistern love of canoeing, sailing, yachting and mountain climbing. She was a poet of no mean ability and a water-color painter of con- siderable talent. Yet in spite of all her activities, she had time for her family until crossword puzzles hit her. Well, the Lord gives and the Lord takes. Now as for me, I would just as soon go to an office supply store and buy myself a set of loose-leaf ledgers and take up double entry book- keeping. Crosswords look too much like home-work to me. Cie me a sven-letier jy for 2 ean Selding Canysphanic acid I have battered my brains against a few of these kitchen-floor-linoleum- looking designs, and have had moments of enthusiasm for the game as long as I thought I was exercising my synonym muscles, but I have turned away with mal de mer when I have hit a two-letter word for a three-toed sloth or a famous Irish chalice of the Tenth Century, or gull (Scotch). These make me feel un- necessarily ignorant, and I don’t have to play games in order to enjoy that emotion. If I had to go through a crossword puzzle book, I would want a pony. It has been argued erroneously that crossword puzzles are keeping people at home. The only kind comment that I cer possibly find for this crossword faa is that it has reduced driving from the tonneau. In looking over Mrs. Herold’s shoulder a few times I have ob- served that the wear and tear on a Crosswords Puzzle Book is simply terrific, and as a constructive critic, I would suggest that the next edition be printed on congoleum. It is easy to see that replacement costs of crossword puzzle books are going to be immense in our family (if our family can still be said to exist). Some provision should be made by the publishers whereby buyers might trade in each year’s book on a new model. While it is impossible to get much more mileage out of a second-hand crossword puzzle book, (Continued on page 24) sual comicbooks.com