Judge — July 6, 1918 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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Another Indemnity By Awtack L. Satuon DHYLLIS has no time to mect me. All ber forces are exerted anic struggle; her affections Ver the great divert Occupied with mighty matters, she discours advances For her heart is now Economy's and her soul is High Finance In devising meatless Ginners busy now her pretty hand is; She declines alluring sweetmeats, she repudiates base candies. Osteopathy, hygienics, Food control and Food conservin Are the topics that she tackles with an energy un swerving; And my loss excites the question—though I fear such hope is vanity— How to snatch a compensation from the Spoilers br Barxsvate Rocexs i ones ( advertisement en famille) —If 1 had the time I'd like to get in on of humanity i this bankrupt sale of cl 7 to get in on that sal been running for yea | America’s Real Stuff brave, glorious plunge into the swirling waters. . By Faen Lavo The temperature of the fluid into HEN you were a gosling kid, which you purposed to hurl your W and the spring floods filled young life was about thirty-two and * all the streams in your one-half degrees. vicinity to their banks, you went to You have no definite recollection ; the old swimming hole, a deep and — of how vou made the Bank, unless mighty sheet of water, a partof the you recall that Willie Bighead had vast and turbulent river which pon- just previously shrilled the malign ; derously, dangerously, eddied by. words, “Ife dassent!” ii You gazed. You determined. You You did it! | announced (to a chosen few). You And, thanks to a strong consti- 4 set the date. tution inherited from uncompro- r . . But it snowed somewhat, mising Puritan ancestors, you did g on that day, and you bore another not’ yield up the ghost in those icy gf week of suspense. You even became waters! You swam! You reached : aware that there were certain idi- shore. You dressed, with J otic mutterings among the youth — your teeth chattering furiously and of the neighborhood, some of whom your soul singing Yankee Doodle! i basely predicted that when it came You looked into the great arch of z to the Plunge you would not be Sky, and were grateful that it was there. there, and you considered it a beau- ( j But you were there! Tobe sure, tiful, beautiful sky. you were there in a rather peculiar The plaudits of the generous 4 condition as to your corporeal self: ones among your confreres pleased 4 j our heart was beating violenting you. against the roof of your mouth, and You went home, and were sick I your legs had St. Vitus dance; but two weeks from some mysterious you were there! As you removed malady for which neither your folks our garments in the chill and biting nor the learned family physician wind, and gazed up at the leaden could quite eccount. But you sur- sky with an awful wondermentas to vived. whether you would ever see the sky You'll not fail, in No Man's or any of your friends, or Family, Land. ; 2 hi again, your heart sank suddenly into cde Mpegs eee your feet, and you doubted if you H. G. of L. Again ie eae done want i could get as far as the bank and If Cupid could be interned a while it lovewihyous Promusneyoc'l say good bye to the world ina fierce, might help out on the high cost of put on your gas mask if you see passionate, despairing, terrible, _ living. one coming, comicbooks.com