Judge — September 1938 — page 42: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

amido things By Dorothy Hoffman If you like to play with trains, here is a little problem in switching: Suppose you find two single freight cars, A and B, on separate railroad switches converging at I, there being room for only one freight car or the locomotive, C, at I. You being engineer in the locomotive, could you push or pull the cars, so that the positions of A and B are reversed? The answer is on page 48 if you get stuck. “Suppose she does think they’re like skis —should I lose an ex- tra sale?” SPECIAL '|SURF BOARDS = ed In case you've for- gotten, the regular, old, time-honored game of Ghost is played as follows: One person at your party gives the first letter of some word which he has in mind. The next person adds a letter to the first one given, also having some specific word in mind. Go the round with each per- son in turn aiding in the formation of a word by the addition of one letter. When anyone is forced to finish a word by giving the last letter, he is given a G, first letter in the title, Ghost. As soon as any one has received a G, no one else must speak to him. If they do, they also receive a G. As soon as a person has finished five words, he becomes a complete Ghost and is out of the game. The game goes on until everybody has be- come a ghost, or at least until everybody is tired of playing the game. Now, two enterpris- ing young men recently originated a variation on this old game which should: intrigue anyone interested in getting in bad with the law. Playing: it en route home from their vaca-./ tion, several times they came near blows be- cause of differences in thought as to the spell- ing of certain words. The result was that they decided to stop and ask the first policeman they saw how the word “My wife’s an ingen- ious woman! Tag ine making a calendar out of coffee bags!” should be spelled whenever any diffi- culty arose. I may add that their first venture was not very successful. The State Trooper they stopped didn’t know how to spell “accrue” and referred them to his Ser- geant. The Sergeant without further ado chased them clear across the State line. vw We hope you haven't heard of the Englishman who had this conundrum pulled on him by the clerk at the Wal- dorf-Astoria: “Brethren and sisters have I none, but this man is my father's son.” The Englishman looked perplexed. “But what's the answer? Who is this man?” he finally asked. “Why, I am, of course,” the clerk told him. In London several weeks later our friend pulled it on a group of his . friends. They were as perplexed as he had. been. “What's the answer?” was the chorus. “Oh, it's very funny, very funny,” chuckled the Englishman. “‘It’s the clerk at the Waldorf-Astoria.” vw Here’s one Macaulay 1s supposed to have pulled on Queen Victoria, and it kept her up all night: comicbooks.com