St Ignatius College - Ignatian Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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32 THE IGNATIAN It is, indeedf' said the lawyer, looking sadly at the sales- man. Shame isn't the word, replied the salesman. e But 1et's not whimper. What about a bottle of Tipo on the house? Bartender ! Tipo's the word, and Malaga, too, if you don't send us across the Bay. 1 'iAgreed for this once, but if ever again-well, 1et's start with the Tipo. James W. Barronj 5.2 I I i. U ..,y:::g:1-5 -'Leif' 2516555115-F ::35-1322? :ififif-21: .......::E yn...- E ,gi f . x i 3 f G J V4 y ' T 1 'EEE' 4.1 h ll! r

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1 T'S A CINCI-I 31 tells him ne knows a friend who can tell what card is touched in a pack laid out face up, without being present at all, just by being called up on the phone and told that a card has been touched. The patient nine times out of ten bites, for he gets excited over it and offers to bet it can't be done. If he doesn't make the offer himself, my friend does, and it's very seldom that it is refused. The guy lays out the cards, touches one, and then rings me up, and I tell him what card's been picked out,-every time. We knock out a hundred or more some months, for the .Doc. has a pretty good practice,-mostly among sports and other fellows who think that they know a good thing when they see it. I tell you it's the best thing yet. 'A cinch' is no name for it. But, replied the salesman, I don't see it yet. How can you tell from here what card's been touched? It's a cinch, was the reply. I have a little book here, --you can see it hanging by the telephone, and if you'd been watching me, you'd have noticed that I glanced in it before telling him what the card was. The doctor has the same thing fastened in his memorandum. It's a list of fifty-two cards in the deck, and opposite the name of each card is the name of some person,--the same names in his list as in mine, in the same order. 'Suppose the gent touches the queen of hearts. Doc looks in the book, that's simple, for he has opened it a moment before-maybe to put down another engagement for the pa- tient, for all' he knows. Opposite the words 'Queen of Hearts' is written the name 'Johnsonf Doc says, 'Ring up Franklin'l337, and ask for Mr. Johnsonf The fellow does as ordered. I answer the 'phone, look for Johnson in my list--the Queen of Hearts is opposite to it! 'You touched the Queen of Hearts,' I answer, and the money's ours. I Ouch! Well, I should say so. It's almost a shame to take the money. . 1 i '

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Tiallnmien ANTERNS, yellow and red and green A myriad lights against the sky, A laughing myriad, drifting by The crimson banners sweepg Color and light and tinseled sheen, A clang of bells and cymbaled din, The plaintive notes of the violin, And trumpet echoes, deep. Showered confetti and serpentine, Clown, Pierrot and Harlequin, Dominoed girls that smile again As midnight's minutes creep, Light and music and sparkling wine, A rush of feet in the lanterned lanes, Iostling and playingg orchestral strains O'er silvern laughter leap. Bright with light are the gay cafesg The gay crowds stream thru the perfumed halls The lamps Hash high on festooned Wallsg The music wails to sleep. Her carmined lips doth Folly raise To Youth, whose eyes are bright above, And Bacchus, far too gross to love, Drinks that he may not weep. Vincent PV. Hallimm.