A NEWS item from Geneva says that the canny Swiss, who know more about pleasing tourists than any other people, are experimenting with the idea of artificially heating small mountain lakes so that visiting firemen can go swimming in them. If the plan is a success, the idea is to get ready for next summer by building several Tom Thumb Alps for mountain-climbers who do not like high places.
Webster Is Wrong Again Drarrsman: A man who puts his ideas on paper for the boss to change.
Checker: A man with a blue pencil but no conscience."
Tracer: A slave, who, knowing himself, never understands what the draftsman thinks he knows.
Last but not least.
Engineer: A mechanical (?) genius "who spends his time thinking up ideas which he refuses to recognize when he meets them on a drawing Age "How old are you?" inquired the visitor of his host's little son.
"That is a difficult question," answered the young Boston lad, removing his spectacles and wiping them reflectively. "The latest personal survey available shows my moral age four, my anatomical age seven, and my physiological age six. I suppose, however, that you refer to my chronological age, which is eight. That is so old-fashioned that 1 seldom think of it any more." oe The Dear Old Post Office!
From the "South China Morning Post" of Hongkong, on September 13:— eyes and see what the Post Ofice Open your mouth and shut your Sends you. With great fuss and bother, as though to say "Here's a lot more work," the office boy who runs the S.C.M. Post flopped on my table yesterday a gigantic mall Shanghai newspapers of August 12, 13, 14!
We don't have to say anything, do we? Besides on Saturday, September 18, we received the "Hongkong Telegraph" for August 10.
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