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Show J K fHJ.Phillipr y THREE-DECKER PULLMAN BERTHS We've had the three-decker sandwich sand-wich and the three-decker bus and a in now we are about to get 11 AJ the three-decker railroad j P berth. I J3l' The Pullman company '4j1 is turning out a combina-''Tj-vy: tion coach-sleeper that will have the berths in three til layers: lower. upper and m stratosphere. IK ... The new car will repre-VU repre-VU I sent the combined talents (jLji of me railroad, the hotel, "- the trailer and the parlor-magic parlor-magic industries. Your I riW chair is a railroad chair p3J5f one moment and presto! pa-M a three-passenger bou-1 bou-1 I doir the next. ft )A ' ' ' V J Through the new car the dL' Pullman company carries 'v'cNrti the art of concealing I Vil1 plumbing to new heights. L I If There are almost as many l-tL-jr fixtures hidden under one . seat as you will find in most plumbers' supply windows. The new car is a de luxe coach without the conventional center aisle. The aisle is now about three points to starboard. There are accommodations for 45 passengers. Nothing more than the appearance of the porter with a few mysterious motions is necessary to eliminate the seats and substitute the ground floor, mezzanine and terrace berths, a It has everything but elevator service between bunks. When all three occupants desire to go to bed at once there is no problem. But it will become a matter mat-ter for the American Railroad association, asso-ciation, the RFC, the SEC and the sundry private and federal agencies when one man wants to turn in and the other two want to play rummy. Elmer Twitchell's chief concern la that he will be in a lower on a rough road when two fellows in the uppers have breakfast in bed. The modernization of railroad cars within the last few years has been id has been the r2A Jal trend that when iTVi a man gets into gi!Jti)K an old-time rail- 9 -fv, road car today its if is like climbing jf t A into a 1908 air- J H cooled Franklin v 4 7 A roadster. S2 M And what the roads have done to the dining cars is nobody's business. They even have hostesses in 'em. She's the brunette who, when you enter all alone, holds up her index finger and asks, "One?" This shows how dizzy those diners are. We hope that whatever happens the roads don't put on three-decker diner tables. Mussolini's attitude may be described as that of a man who is working hard for peace with both fists. FAIR ENOUGH Roger Babson, he's a dry, To be a President he'll try; He will not take a drink with me Nor will I drink with Roger B. "The fate oi the German nation for the next 1,000 years is at stake," says Der Fuehrer. What's 999 years and six months in a crisis like this? I THE GULL AND THE EARTHQUAKE A seagull, tired out from a long journey, flew toward land and lighted light-ed on a crag, but as it happened an earthquake occurred at that identical identi-cal moment. To the dismay of the little bird the whole line of rocky cliffs seemed to tremble suddenly lift upward and then collapse beneath be-neath him. At this the gull flapped his wings and flew back to sea as fast as he could, screaming tragically: "See the evil thing I've done! ... I lit on the crag for a moment, and as a result I've wrecked the whole coast line! His companions consoled him as best they could. "I don't mink I'd take all the responsibility," thev said gently. "There was an earthquake, earth-quake, too, you know." William March . SPRING VERDICT ToT1 aSSeft they oulines take J- flsh a mountain flow ToniPrteaf!Jy their main pIeasu To let their whiskers grow. EDUCATION FOR OUR ELDERS People are always writing articles on how to bring up children. Why doesn't someone get real coura geous and write a book on how to bring up parents? The other night "Moonlight Serenade" Ser-enade" was being played on uTe radio and do you know .hat my him'Sat Ifu. m t SCCm t0 bot" |