Judge — June 3, 1916 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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dolly, everybody knows that she’s commencing a preparedness for marriage. She may make a good marriage or a bad marriage, but her business is—Marriage. While a boy has got a thousand different kinds of businesses to go into—from an Indian in Coney Island to a Gover- nor from the Philippines. What can’t a boy be? So Land Minnie was talking it over, but she wants everything her way. When she’s around I feel like I was only a vice-president in my own house. Inders nicht, she wants Lester to be a director from the moving pictures, so that the name of Markowitz should be scen all over the woild and remembered for hundreds and hundreds of years. So [ told her that I'll give her in, and let Lester be a director, but not by the movies—by a bank! And what did my sister Minnie say?” Minnie? Minnie made fun from me,” “She said everybody says that a bank director is asked Henry. replied Markowitz. “What's the metziah about a doctor?” asked Henry. “They don’t make so much money like a manufacturer.” “Don’t say that, Henry!” exclaimed Markowitz. “If they got luck they make much more. Take Doctor Gold for a sample. three years he was sitting in his office, and had to put in a half a dozen new seats in his chair. He was doing notting, except play pinocle with the dent and the money he got from his father-in-law getting so low like the gas by the end of a quarter meter. But one y night, when he had already made up his mind to go back to insurance, by accident it happened that t lived there was an accident next door. A soitan Mr. Fink, wha there, was cating his gefulte fish in a hurry, because his whole wanted to get scats by the moving pictures, and a bone got stuck in his throat, so t he commenced to choke. His wife and the only a dummy, and that I'm a fine father to want to make a dummy from his son! Nu, 1 didn’t want to fight with her, so I told her let’s ask Lester what he wants to be himself and Lester said right plain, he don’t want to be a director, he wants to be a motorman.” “Nu, what’s the difference,” jested Henry. A director from a bank or a director from a trol- ley car; in both you got to be careful, so"—— “You with your jokes!” interrupted Marko- witz angrily. “We are talking serious about the future of a boy what’s a relation from you, and you are joking like it was a janitor’s child. I tell you, Henry, if Lester would have on him a good head, I would make from him a doctor.” “Go on!” exclaimed Henry. Don't you nt your boy to enjoy life? A doctor's life ain’t no life, it’s a prison. When he young doctor he’s got to sit and wait, maybe a customer will come around; and when he’s an old doctor they wait for him and don't let him out.” “But see what an honor it is,” maintained Markowitz. “ rybody calls you Doctor and when I would go on the street everybody would say ‘Here goes Mr. Markowitz, Doctor Marko- “witz's father, what saved So and So's life.’ It’s nice to have a title even in America. Many people who don’t get born with it over here get tied with it from Europe. Now, everybody likes to be called with a title like a General or a Captain. This morning I saw Lester play ‘War’ with a lot of loafers on the street and even by them every one had a title. One was called ‘Colonel Nut,’ another one ‘Major Cement’ and yet another ‘Corporal Punish ment.’ My Lester was called ‘Captain Kidd.’ But I would much better like him to be called Doctor Markowitz.” INDUCEMENT comicbooks.com