WE FEARED WE HAD STARTED SOMETHING.
Sir: Should G. E. Thorpe’s typewritten communications carrying the suggestion GET/FAT precede or follow our communications which carry EAT/ME? E. A. T.
THEY’RE OFF!
Sir: What position in your letter file, respecting the suggestions of GET/FAT, will my typewritten letters land, as they end thusly: “HEL/NO”? H. E. L.
SWEETLY INEFFECTIVE.
Sir: Perhaps the reason my collection letters have so little effect lately is that these cheerless communications always conclude with JAM/JAR. J. A. M.
BUT APROPOS.
Sir: All this GET/FAT excitement reminds me of the case, so old it’s probably new again, of [p 81] />]one Simmons, who wrote letters for one Green, and signed them “Green, per Simmons.” W. S.
SORRY. THERE WERE SEVERAL IN LINE AHEAD OF YOU.
Sir: I have been waiting, very patiently, for some one to inform you that the sincerity of A. L. Lewis, manager of the country elevator department of the Quaker Oats Company, is sometimes made questionable by the initials, ALL/GAS, appearing on his business correspondence. O. K.