Judge — July 1932 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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Rustic Sports 1ERE’S a game that goes on up to Connecticut State known as Dropping the Cat and I wish I knew round it. You You sot this cat by the simple process of finding it parked on your doorstep some time before. It whispered to you that it was a male and quite rough en iats so you let it stay. But sud- cenly you no longer want it. It t sone in for a lot of serenading in y of Squee and capped it off ou with a group of y ills known as kit- tens. Though it tries vainly to prove to you that it is only the father of y of getting esls A AEW INANITY/ this interesting better. Male cats are idealists and idealists have no children. They have ideals. So you decide to play Dropping the Cat. You get into your car and invite Cat and Young to come for a nice drive. Then you put in the gears and drive far, far away, carefully losing s.1 sense of direction. Then when ycu feel you are sufficiently away, you start the game. It cons: of driving to a doorstep and dr ping the cat. When the whole little group has been found fine, com- fortable homes, you wind your y home. leaving no followable trails. But h the rub. When you g home, you always find that someone else has been playing the same game and there a nice little cat mews a nice little welcome. You might im- mediately set out and drop this little new beggar but you can’t win. You'd e home and find another cat yup, you know JUDGE HE Victor Company has sent me an ingeniously recorded platter. It is called “Pick the Winner” and is a horse race affair. Each one picks a horse—from one to six. The victrola is started and you hear the sound of a horse race, betting, start and finish and then the winner is announced. All numbers are re- corded on the same side of the disk which is a quite rem of recording, I should s different numbers come up accord- ing to the starting position of the record. I you've emptied a gallon jug and don’t know what to do with it, try this little inanity. Place a package of cigarettes and a ard of matches, one on each de of the juy, a little to the rear. Put the jug on its side and sit down on it, keeping both feet off the ground. Then without getting off the jug or putting down the feet, pick up a cigarette and a match and light up. Depression Notes *; LINOR MERRELL hasn't seen a customer in her chintz shoppe for the past four month It doesn't she’s going to see next 24 years her run. So all s look as if one for the lease has to does is sit and read her lease f loopholes that would enable her to break it. She’s read it so often she knows it by heart. The only out is that she is forbidden to shoot fire- works in her place. is quietly ng in a supply of roman candles, giant cannons, nigyer chasers and golden bursts and on the 4th of July whanyo! — independence! and how! The Stanley Joneses haven't paid their maid for 3 months now and about it. she hasn't said anythiner WILL THE SPEAKEASY STAY? So she -\F = _~_ 3 Junior Pays ontY $1 A GISe FOR COUNTRY BeER—/ The Joneses, apprehensive, have in- sisted that she move into the guest room, she gets her breakfast in bed and can have her chauffeur friend in any night in the drawing room. The ood, poor artists of Westport ave worked out the food problem by taking dinner with each other so many times per week. It figures out that it is almost as cheap to feed six as it is two. They have apple-vending: machines on Broadw Put in a nickel and get an apple. It’s so the unemployed can yf0 way on vacations. It is possible to buy a substance known as Savasol with which you can mend your own shoes for 8c., by merely spreading it on with an old knife. I yet beer up in the country for $1.50 case; 24 bottle: They’re sending stories across the ticker these days to yet it to move a little. IT hope Mr. Winchell will foryive me for quoting one he heard (Page 32, please) THE REVENUE ORFICERSLL PLAY BALL _ \witt Mel —