Judge — January 23, 1932 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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\AIG The Parlor Inane o tell the truth, when I first hi- hattractioned jig-saw puzzles, it was with a sneaking feeling that any- one who went in for the inanity of fitting little together was somewhat, as the French put it, serewy—that is, more the retrogres- type and less the Einsteinian. But that’s the trouble with getting su- perior, for I have met a jig-saw puzzle and it has me down, Much against my better judgment, I took one of the things home for a weekend, recently, hoping to amuse my great uncle, a splendid gentleman of the old) (or beanbag playing) I figured it would make up to him for the lack of antimacassars and bustles in this dull, modern Sure enough, the old boy w raptures and tailspins, and got to work, while I sat hard by, sneering audibly at his infantile lust for such a sanatorium-convalescence pastime. But in a little while it happened that I t my hand. stealir he had overlooked, and Mehitabel’s cutouts sive school. a piece pretty soon—by panta- — ES) ~ Port “Ve Cj ® JUDGE [WAT lettes—if it didn't sneak out again to take 4 a piece that obviously didn’t belong where my esteemed old relation had placed it. And the next thing I remember, I had been hard at work for a full cightecn-hour stretch without food, water or human. inter- course—but the puzzle was success- fully completed! Of course, I've been no good suffering constantly from nightmares in which Lam trying to fit myself into the pattern of wall- paper, rugs and paper doll dresses, and I'll probably have to take a few weeks off to get rid of the jitters (jig saws to you), but, boy, it was a noble campaign! But what I've been trying to that besides puzzles of from 300 to 3000 pieces, you can now get little called P. Puzzle Games. Each set) contains four miniature puz and four can sit down to a bridge table and play a game of see- ing who can fit his into form first. After completion, the puzzles can be rotated, each player getting a new puzzle until cach’ player has put to- gether the whole four. Scoring rules are provided. The winner gets two since, stime BING WITHOUT REMOVING CLOHES ks at Muldoon’s, FREE. ou can also rent these puzzles from any convenient bookshop, and The Post Box Bookshop, will arrange to send them East 48, mail, Ed Graham, the young Royerofter, tells me you can make jig-saw puzzles yourself. Mae asked, “What with?” and Ed said, “A jig-saw, of course!” This may be purchased at any hard- ware store and for ¥ ) you can get a motor-driven one called the Delta. You will also need eighth-inch ply- board and pa angers paste. Your picture will cost nothing, a mag: cover will do. Paste the picture the ply-board, cut to size, let it dry overnight, then go to work with the azy as you please—the zier the merrier. Incidentally, if you have ¢ ist get him working on a j puzzle, then swipe about six pieces out of it while he’s out to lunch, Electric Buzz-Buzz or Schicks for Sheiks nen the full import of the new Electric Schick Razor, with which you can shave yourself sans sme brush, water, towel, styptic or prof. ity, smacks us between the eyes, the world ought to witness the most ter- tific upheaval since tandem bathing was abolished in Salt Lake City. Big Barberial Business will take another one on the whiskers, and the m turers of chin scrapers and accessories will depart for the bread lines. Only the Power Trust (that fat and glutted creature), whose current operates the razor, will have no regrets, ‘The bawthroom, now made elegant with shaver’s decor, will sink back into its pre-Cecil B. de Millenium desuetude. And the barbers, no longe: to scrape even a bare living, will silently fold their razors, drink up their sooth- ing lotions, and probably pass away. As for society, much will resuit. The Schick, which enables a person to shave without removing his co! comicbooks.com