Show word of oar wanted immediately capable also goffer buffer and boy tc dolly an advertisement similar to this is alleged to have appeared re bently in a newspaper and there is no reason why it should not have done says the new york press the advertising columns of a newspaper should be fascinating study to the phil there are to be found in them words in common and dally used by people in certain trades and probes which are entirely unintelligible to people outside ot those employ ments but were once common proper ty take this specimen ad A cap able would at once suggest to the average mind some disagreeable acquaintance whose qualifications ought to get him the job upon applina alon but that is not the brand ot a wanted there is no need to ad for that brand they are bound to happen A capable may be a most pleasant and lovable person A Is one who flutes hollow metal ware with a barling nar ling iron he works on teapots and such like articles and makes them look pretty A goffer does not necessarily play golf in some parts ot england people who make knife blades are called coffers though most commonly coffers are people who raise figures on metal or leather like the figures on embossed leather in old style book bindings certain ornamental styls of edges for the leaves were said to be the word goffer is also used to mean fluting or crimping to call a person a buffer ts no insult A buffer may be either young or d generally a buffer is a woman the buffer Is a person who stands by a re evolving wheel covered with leather and by a mixture of sand and oil off the surface of any silver goods n the process of manufacture other workmen who might have been called tor in the advertisement are wrig alers and worm eaters wrigglers and worm eaters might be thought to have some mysterious trade affinity but a wriggler does not wriggle nor does a worm eater make a diet of those repulsive creatures wrigglers are en gravers who devote their working hours to the tracing of those zigzag lines which are so often a feature of cheap britannia metal teapots worn eaters are persons who assist the mak ers of spurious oak furniture to deceive the public by drilling worm holes into the wood so as to give it an ancient appearance A boy to dolly means that a boy is wanted to tend a dolly machine now there are several kinds of dolly machines in general a dolly Is a machine with a revolving wooden disk in it one kind of dolly Is a washing machine and another Is a machine for separating metals there recently appeared in an english paper an advertisement which would puzzle any american and most englishmen it read Sw illick tor sale or can be addled apply rose nook Sw illick Is an old yorkshire name for swill or pigs food addle Is another york shire name tor earning and nook means cottage so the advertisement read swill tor sale or can be earned worked for apply at rose cottage |