Judge — November 10, 1917 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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DGE Pywenber 10, 1917 nd’ -Ihn from the Fighting Men 66 Hi Ti Contributed by Men in Uniform ey, om 50 350 “Squads, Right About!’ 3? cn 8. Greene, Yeoman, Key West, Fla ] om Sawyer! 20 bse 3 Down the centuries will ring that one small 3 | boy’s cry. To the laughter and tears of $20 men and women—cf small boys and girls—it pes has rung around the world. oe You who have laughed so often at Huckle- 120 berry Finn and Tom Sawyer—have you ever stopped to think how much of serious thought NE pivot man dashed madly forward | Mark Twain has put into these books? How throwing his entire squad into confusion. much of himself—of his own boyhood—he has “What's the matter there, you?” yelled put into ragged, mixed-up, lovable Huck Finn— de instructor, “didn’t I tell you that you into irresistible Tom Sawyer. tod eight steps to make the turn in?” ['se tryin’ t’ see cf T cud make it in sa!” | The Cook Challenged | fy Lestenent James E. Dorst, Camp Funston, Kanne, For Mark Twain was just such a boy himself. A poor boy on the Mississippi—full of mischief, hope and fear. And—Mark ‘Twain walked with the kings of the earth—kings crowned and uncrowned- kings of empires—of letters—of art. That poor, small, Mississip i River boy “walked such a broad and brilliant highway, with flags flying, and crowds following after.” And still the crowds follow—still he is loved— no, worshipped in the far ends of the earth; and in our own littlest village and farm— sophisticated Fifth Avenue and simple country 120 1 HEN the een school-boy meet on common ground in 200 at Camp Funston had been organized | bs lian cooks were employed in the officers’ 09 100 | 00 tof ® 1.00 One dark night, ly in the days of the : Ea et cegracgok wuacelaricg, ae, Last Chance for the Low Price req [f vhisbarracks. As he stole up a company 32 set a guard perceived him and barked out: A 22 Pia! Who's there!” | Send Coupon at once! 10 “I'se de cook,” muttered the darky and go ‘ptsullenly on his way. We have been very glad and proud One day last Christmas, three thousand a \gin the guard shouted: for these many years to be able to orders for Mark Twain lay on one desk = “Halt! Who's there!” offer you Mark Twain’s Works, well waiting to be filled. When orders come in 9 The negro was puzz t this persistence. | bound, well-printed, and altogether at the rate of three thousand a day, the one 52 | Nonplussed, he stopped in his tracks, silent. | well made, at a low price. And it is who waits until the last moment gets 1. Then the guard yelled loudly for the third | with deep regret that we find we must _ nothing. 209 ine: | discontinue that offer. We have shipped sets to China and 3.00 “Halt! Who's there!” at the same time — | The price of paper, of cloth, of everything Japan—to Australia and Turkey—to Nor- te ‘i i that goes into the making of books, has way and Spain—to the Gold Coast a 100 dl climbed to unheard-of heights. We should in South Africa and to the Ar- SANrER ° “Mister, what is it you-a. wants me to have raised the price of these books long ago, gentine—for Mark Twain has 7 trasttesz,a1. sco | 8Y When you says ‘Halt’?” but for Mark Twain’s sake we kept the low been translated into more Sead me, all 120 “Say ‘friend,’” instructed the guard. price as long as possible. The last paper languages than any other 7 paige Meck is ‘But, Mister, Ah done said Ah was de that we could get at a reasonable price is American. Prige oey oe oe ae about to be used up. Send the coupon now nicases pentas ie 3 _ If there are any more sets made they will and get your set at the 7 ,sumpclia,gol with 9 The Why of Her Wisdom have to be made at a higher price. Don’t low price before it is 7° , satisfactory. 1 will return a HERE was a lass in our town, wait. Get your set now. too late. 7 sQubereise 1 il si 7 12 [And she was wondrous wise: 7 anonth for 12 months, ‘thus When knee-high skirts became the rage, phe tae tea tety She held no young man’s eyes. LS ew | Still wore skirts that touched her toes News All marked the modest miss! 7 Address we But I recall, when she was small, Occupation ivbaee gee ie sr red halt-leather edition change coupon to $2.59 Her legs looked just like this ( ) Edmund J. Kiefer. '3 days and $1.00 a month for 20 months comicbooks.com