1 The Outlook for Get Travelwise By the Way IGN over a rooming-house door-bell in The bell don't make." An examination of the classified advertisements under the heading "Swaps" in a New York daily gives a side-light on present-day aspirations. More than half of the advertisements propose to exchange something of value for a motor car. For example: "Piano, excellent condition, for light car." Or this: "Equity in lot on Dewey Ave.; for 1925 sedan." Or even this: "Double house, all improvements; take auto and little cash." Next in popularity come radio outfits; but it is noted with pleasure that some one wants to get rid of a saxophone for anything it will bring. From the "Progressive Grocer:" A patient who was convalescing from a long siege of pneumonia had asked repeatedly for food, and finally the nurse gave him a small spoonful of rice. A few minutes later the patient rang again, and when the nurse appeared said to her: "Now I want to read a little. Please bring me a postage stamp." "A cynic," according to the "Brown Jug," "is a humorist with the misfortune to be born with a smile a trifle to one side." Ear-plugs are now being sold by New York City druggists. They are designed to frustrate noise, and are used by those who cannot sleep for the roar of the city's noises. "And your name, please?" "Ivan Ausziechmmugencugteki." "How do you spell it?" "As it is pronounced." A tabby cat in a Vancouver, British Columbia, zoo is serving as foster-mother to three young wolves, and the El Paso "Times" remarks, "Modern parents understand the feeling." "Collars, neckties and socks-yes, sir! How about some night-shirts?" "No, sir, young fella. I ain't no society rounder. When night comes I go to bed." From the "Fliegende Blaetter" (Munich): He: "Who is that handsome boy with the cropped head?" She: "That's my cousin, Betty." "And the blond man with the monocle?" "That's my younger sister, Lu." Laughing, but embarrassed: "So I suppose the other young man in the dinner jacket is your elder sister?" "No, that's my grandmother." From the Cincinnati "Enquirer:" "I see you have a sign in your store, We Aim To Please,'" remarked the irritated customer. "Certainly," replied the proprietor, "that is our motto." "Well," retorted the I. C., "you ought to take a little time off for target practice." From "Everybody's Magazine:" A new regulation in a certain coal mine required that each man mark with chalk the number of every car of coal mined. One man named Rudolph, having filled the eleventh car, marked it as No. 1 and, after pondering a while, let it go at that. Another miner, happening to notice what he thought was a mistake, called Rudolph's attention to the fact that he had marked the car No. 1 instead of No. 11. "Yes, I know," said Rudolph. "But I can't think which side de odder wan go on." From the Boston "Transcript:" Motor Cop (to professor of mathematics): "So you saw the accident, sir. What was the number of the car that knocked this man down?" Professor: "I'm afraid I've forgotten it. But I remember noticing that if it were multiplied by fifty, the cube root of the product would be equal to the sum of the digits reversed." The answer to each line of the following jingle is a word of six letters. Six different words, but all composed of the same si letters. Answer next week. You will find one in every jail, You can do it by means of a pail, Austria OUNTESS MARTHA LAMBERG, Schloss Kaps, Hotels and Resorts Maine New York Kitzbühel, Austria, receives guests in old Round Mountain Lake Camps HURRICANE LODGE and castle in the Tyrolese Mountains. Modern comfort. Particulars, 7,425, Outlook, or direct. ROUND MOUNTAIN, MAINE A Real Forest Retreat located in Northwestern Maine (between DION O. BLACKWELL. Massachusetts basa English Breakfast $2-$2.50 daily. 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Where New Orleans Dwells Beside the Mississippi This reproduction of a United States Geological Survey map of the country surrounding New Orleans shows graphically the menace of floods to the Crescent City. The absence of contour lines, the presence of great areas marked as marshes, doubly indicate the flatness of the terrain. The river flows from left to right. The place where the break in the levee was made at Poydras may be found on the left-hand bank of the Mississippi, in the bend of the river at the extreme right. Much of the territory between Poydras and Lake Borgne has been evacuated. It was through the levee at this point that the river burst in 1922. |