Judge — September 1937 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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Live Anywhere, and Make ‘Em Like It. I’. you're thinking of acquiring a roll- ing home, don’t let the fact that 10,000 or more laws governing trailers have been passed in the last year or so disturb you. Practically all those laws say “you can’t park that thing around here,” or “if you do you've got to do this and that.” You can give them the laugh. I'm taking care of all that. You want freedom, and this is a free country. My idea is to go the trailer one bet- ter. I'm inventin, table 50 x 125- foot lot, zoned for either residential or business Burposes It will be complete with lawn, shrubs, fence and backyard. When you see a spot you like all you do is unload and roll out your lot, tow the trailer onto it and to hell with any- one who comes around and tries to tell you that you can’t park there. What if you don’t like your neigh. bors, and they don’t like you just as intensely? Well, I'm working on those angles, too. If I succeed in figuring out how you can carry around one portable lot it shouldn't be difficult to develo; a complete portable neighborhood. Come to think of it, that might be the best idea of all. If you could roll up all your neighbors and have them towed into the next county perhaps you'd be happier staying at home, instead of go- ing to the expense of buying a trailer. I'll let you know how my ideas work out, if they do. —Cuet JOHNSON. That Kid, Ought to Be Spanked! 66. ATHER?” “Don't bother me now, Henry, I'm reading the paper. “But mother said I was to tell you what I did today.” “Um—well. All right.” “I was playing near the window, and I ripped one of mother’s new curtains.” “Um.ah. Oh yes. That's fine, Ben. “Father, I don’t think you were paying attention. I said I tore mother’s curtain.” “What?—Oh, Yes. Very interesting.” “And I pulled the cat's tail too. Mother said I was a bad boy.” “What say? Oh yes. That's fine, Ben, I'm glad to hear it.” “And she said I was to tell you I broke your putter this afternoon.” "What! You broke my putter? That new one ?” “Er—yes, pop. I didn’t think you were listening.” “You didn’t think I was listening! Do you think I'm deaf? Come here young man. Come here right away! I'll teach hep to go fooling with things that don’t long to you.” —ParkeE CUMMINGS. WEEKEND FUN UTUMN'S breezes will soon begin to blow and already we are begin. ning to think of roasting marshmallows and popping corn before a big wood fire of an evening, talking over football favorites. But Summer still has a few weeks to go, weekends are still in vogue, and here are a few fast ways to keep the party moving. Divide your guests into Democrats and Republicans and appoint a Vice President. Each player takes the charac. ter of some U.S. Senator—Vandenberg, Bankhead, Reynolds, Copeland, and so on. A freak law is then introduced and put before the Senate with a motion to repeal. Whereupon the Vice President lets the Senate go into a furious session of debate on the merits of the law. Whenever the gab runs out, the thing is put to vote. Then the game goes round again with a fresh set of Senators and a new law. A grand game, if your guests don’t object to impersonating Senators. NOTHER windy party pastime is “Talk Fest.” Send two guests from the room to de. cide what characters they are going to represent. For instance, Janet may decide to be Mae West and Archibald may hit upon the Duke of Windsor. Then they return to the room and the object is for them to carry on a conversation, in char- acter, until the smartest of the guests have been able to figure out their iden. tity. When you get Cleopatra and Groucho Marx together, or Andrew Mellon and Gracie Allen, remind the audience that there are neighbors less than a mile away and not to guffaw so heartily. HERES a card game that can be brought to a close faster than bridge when someone suggests a little battling around on a sofa. The dealer places five cards, face up, before each player. A put- and.take operation then ensues. dealer turns up a card from the remain. der of the deck, and should a player - have the same card, regardless of suit, before him he must ante two chips. If he has more than one card of the kind the dealer turns up, he antes accordingly. The dealer then turns up a second card and the player who shows it must ante four. And so on until the dealer has turned up ten cards. At this point, the process is reversed and the “take” starts operating. From now on when the dealer turns a card the player who shows it extracts two chips from the kitty. And so on up to ten cards again. The dealer gets whatever is left in the kitty or makes good whatever the kitty is light. The deal changes after cach round of putting and taking. SUPPLY your guests with paper and pencil and at a given signal each player starts to write down the names ot the forty-eight States. No help from the rest of the party, of course. Abbrevia- tions are allowed. In ten minutes, fifteen minutes, or yes, even twenty minutes, call time up and see who has written down the greatest number. It sounds easy to do, but thirty-seven out of the forty-eight is a pretty good average for fifteen minutes. SEAT your guests in two equal rows of chairs facing each other. Place end tables or bridge tables at both ends of each row. Then on, say, the two tables at the north end of the rows, place enough highballs to accommodate the people in the row. At the word “go,” the players nearest the highball begin feeding” their respective rows with drinks. The drinks must pass, one at a time, from each player to his neighbor, and as each drink reaches the end of the line, it is placed on the empty tables. As soon as the last drink reaches the far table, the person at that end of the line begins to return the drinks in the same manner. The side which gets them all back first wins. The more a side spills, the less it has to drink, and to mop up, too! All in all, a dandy way to get rid of antiques and oriental rugs. Solutions of Puzzles in this Issue comicbooks.com