SYLVESTER

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Sylvester is hcppy beccuse he's stopped thct leck-temporcrrily. But we hcrve betier idecs lor YOU.

Bepcir or rerool now. We oller you c choice oI roofing mcieriolg to suit vour needs' so does'

Another new word is looming upon the horizon-Sylvester ! Sylvester signifies the building industry. He speaks for lumber dealers-or rather-calls for lumber dealers from coast to coast for he is always in trouble. He goes through all the emotions-has all the problems that confront the average man when faced with the insoluable questions found in a house.

Slyvester was created by Hank Ketcham, who also does the cartoons of Half Hitch, the pint-size sailor, who appears weekly in The Saturday Evening Post.

Slyvester is made available to all dealers in the industry through the services of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, and the Federated State and Regional Associations.

Each month the clip service will carry, not only Slyvester, but also other one and two column ads on timely promotions. In addition the NRLDA ofiers a series of spot cuts-little illustrations of things lumber dealers everywhere are selling-which may be incorporated into such advertising as local dealers wish to use. These illustrations come without advertising copy and can be utilized as a dealer sees fit.

A Dubious Question

His boss had been away from home for several days and had phoned the missus that he would be in on the eight o'clock train in the morning, and to have the car meet him and take him direct to the office for an important engagement. So this colored chauffeur was at the depot to meet the boss, all right, but he made a mistake and fell asleep in the car that was parked behind the depot. The train arrived, the boss got off, and seeing nothing of his car or driver, he jumped in a taxi and went to the office, from where he phoned his wife.

Of course the driver had to have a good story ready to explain why he came home without the boss, so he said:

"Missy, I done met dat train, sho nuff, but de boss he nevah showed up a-tall."

She said: "Well, that's interesting, because he just phoned me from the office."

The darkey scratched his head as he hurriedly debated this unexpected problem. "Mam," he said, "you don't reckon de boss got in las' night, does you, an' jus' fo'got to mention hit?'

The Go-To-Hell Fleet

A graphic account of life aboard an L.S.T. (landing craft) is given in verse that rhymes, more or less, by Paul F. Murphy, somewhere in the Atlantic. This is the final stanza:

Now we lay us down to sleep, On L.S.T. invasion fleet.

Punny (?) crafts with rugged crews, Floating bathtubs with twin-screws. Sleepy men from happy homes, Sleepy men with aching bones. fnvasion crews of volunteers.

Old in knowledge, young in years. Men who gladly die to tell, The whole damn world to go to hell.

No Cover Chcrge

The wandering Westerners of the old days on the plains, their abode was the great out-of-doors, the roof over their heads the sky's canopy. One of such was Old Pete Mason, a driver on a freight wagon train. Most of the ment slept under their wagons at night, but not Pete. When the rest of them went under the wagons to bed, Pete would take his blanket and saddle and walk out under the open sky and lie down.

"Why don't you sleep under your wagon, Pete?" a newcomer asked him one night.

Pete just answered: "Too confinin'."

That's When

Luke: "My son doesn't seem to want to marry anybody."

Mcluke: "Don't worry. Just wait until the wrong girl comes along."

Delinition

"Pa, what is a flapper?"

"Son," said his Pa, "a flapper is a young woman who does everything an old maid would like to do but hasn't the constitution to stand."

Wlry Not the Regiment?

The society lady wrote to the army officer saying:

"Mrs. John Sears requests the pleasure of Captain Jones' company at a dinner, August 18th, at seven P.M."

She received the following reply by return post:

"With the exception of fourteen men who, I regret to state, are at present in the guardhouse, Captain Jones' Company accepts with pleasure Mrs. Smith's invitation for dinner August l8th, at seven P.M."

Goodness!

When Jones's little girl was born, They set their hearts a-flutter, They called her oleomargerine, For they hadn't any but her.

While most ol our lumber is going into Government wcrr uses, we hcve been tcking cqre of our decler customers' requirements to the best oI our cbility, card we thcnk them for their pctience curd cooperction