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| silver dollars . | continually . High Hat (Continued from page 1+) Sub-title—Tuar Nicu oe we found one dandy place in | Saratoga and it seemed very popular after the races... it is right on the main street and | people are running in and out .. there is no music or cabaret but it is very lively and we spent n hour two y the time... you can’t miss it because there's a big sign right out in front with WESTERN UNION on it! -f— or there whiling aw. While we were there a kind benefactor in New York sent us some money and a wire whieh read, “Horses, horses, horses,” so we decided to look up these here now places we'd heard so much yout where they have games of chance... we found one where they played nice friendly games like Roulette and Craps and a quaint pastime called “Bird ...a nice kindly old gentleman presided over this | table and turned a cage with . there was a long green mat with numbers on it from one to six and you could bet y number your. little heart desired . . . if the number you bet on corresponded with the number that came up on the dice. the nice kindly old gentle handed you some nice big bright three dice in it. . on an . if you guessed the wrong number the nice kindly old gentleman gathered up your nice big bright silver dollars! . . . at one time Mac’s pockets were so full of silver dollars his coat sagged nearly to the ground .. . when we left his coat looked like a Spanish jacket! ... I didn't any have Sub-title — Tur Dawn Came Up Like Tuunpenr, . . . the next morning Mac and I invente ame of our own... we hap- pened to be without cigarettes and the fifteen pennies to buy them so we played our game .. . the secret of this sport is that the hand is quicker than the eve... the player goes into the lobby of a big hotel, like the United States, for mple, and loitering nonchalantly around — the counter, he tries to grab api of Camels) when looking . . . hour two cigar k the girl isn’t we did this for an while waiting for or The Switchboard An Advertisement of the American Telephone A wep of cords plugged into num- bered holes. A hand ready to answer signals which flash from tinylamps. A mind alert for prompt and accurate performance of a vital service. A de- votion to duty inspired by a sense of the public’s reliance on that service. Every section of a tele- phone switchboard typi- fies the co-ordination of human effort and mech- anism which makes possi- ble America’s far-reaching news from home and had fun no end. fh Being limited as to space I have merely mentioned the high lights of Sarat should say low lights . . . or maybe I © there were many other points of in- terest .. : lobby of the C girl in yellow at the track, the girl in gre girl in black at Reilly’s, Jimmy . the girl in blue in the and Union, the ut the Brook, the 29 and Telegraph Company telephone service. Its cords link for in- stant speech those whoareseparated by a few miles or by acontinent. Its guardian operators are of the telephone army— men and women vigilant to meet a nation’s need for communications. In plant and personnel, the Bell System isin effect a vast switchboard serv- ing a nation that has been transformed into a neigh- borhood through telephone growth and development. Durant at Reilly's, the hot stand with the good rye and the quarter machines, Van and Schenk at the Lido Venice, the green Rolls Royce in the United States lobby, the colored gentle- dog man who guarded our car, the It was a great trip... we missed it for a . we didn’t! Jvoee Jr. wouldn't million dollars . . — comicbooks.com