Judge — August 31, 1918 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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August 31, 1918 “Private Cook, guilty or not guilty?” in Chica \Hello! WakeUp! Read | O GHT |||} FUN FROM THE FIGHTERS / Good Things in Our Army and Navy Publications Right About Face! “Oh, Porter!" h PRIVATE Alexander Jefferson Cook, whose One was a newly appointed ensign for further chief occupation before the draft caught training at Annapolis and the other was a raw shooting craps on the levees at | rookic on his way to Great Lakes from Ken- Orleans, appeared before one of the local officers tucky. Ovanity Faw e for court-martial. | ‘The meeting was at the Northwestern Station | “Guilty, sah!” was the reluctant answer. “Cook, do you know that I can give you th months confine- ment, and fine you two- thirds pay, when you plead?” queried the r. “NOT guilty, sah, NOT guilty!” n for Great Lakes was just pulling The Latin Gesture out and the rookie had a letter to post that he was most anxious to get off. He spied the bright uniform of the ensign. He rushed over to him: “Here, porter, post this letter—and here’s a VANITY FAIR ‘Social Back Nini out of step with the whirling progress of if you are removed from its magnetic influ- if, despite your youth, you are becoming an , or an old maid, or an old bachelor, or an old bore; if your joie de vivre is dying at the roots—then Another interesting dime for the trouble,” | you must read Vanity Fair, and presto! you will be ' thing about Cook is ordered the rookie. | nimble-witted and agile-minded again—the joy of the that he never had on a (Conversation ensu- | Picnic—the life of the party—the little ray of sunshine i 4 . in the gloom of the grill rc Ps pair of shoes until the ing deleted by censor.) government furnished —Great Lakes Bulletin. | Six months of Vanity Fair will enable you to : them. His favorite ignile a dinner party at fifty yards comment is, “I reckon A Reasonable Request | Don’t settle down comfortably in the ooze. ‘The world is I'se gettin’ putty spo’ty, Jurors have resorted ng, moving on all eight cylinders—and you might wearin’ shoes!"— The every . | just as well move along with Don't stall yourself “o” Times to every ane plea 10 | onife’s highroad; don't be satisfied to take everybody t . get excused from court | else's dust. Hop up and little joy ride on the red e service. and yellow band-wagon—Vanity Fair’s band-wagon € Popular Books Claud Gouldner Drill Regulations. startled Judge Foran in 5 Issu F $ 1 , Manual of Interior a Cleveland court when es or (Six, if you respond promptly) - Guard Duty. he asked: Fi " Moretti “Your honor! mayl If you do not know Vanity Fair, or sat hs A sey vould like to know it better, you Judge. iroe— be relieved of further may have the next five issues for The Bible.—The Let’ 5 aed French, Herb.” duties as a juror? I if you mail the coupon now. > : . “Let's go in and study our French, Herb. salle + ap)? in x Reconnaissance (Camp “Naw, it's too hot to be wav a really must go to war. You think nothing—in your poor deluded way—of = Bowie). —Trench and Camp. Why, er-r-r—" be- | spending $1 for a new novel, or a seat at the theatre, gan the Judge. yet for that very $1 you may have five months of Vanity Unconventional “It’s really necessary,”” broke in Gouldner. | Fairsix if you mail the coupon now-and with it MTORR RasleRG I is re 7 perce areas Hae hateg f * | more entertainment than you would get from a winter I think the government is very unconven- I enlisted in the Marines during the | 65 problem plays, or a five-foot shelf of novels. t tional,” Axel suggested. s. Now I'd like a few hours of leisure “Why?” inquired his friend. in which to get married.” “1 looked all through my draft questionnaire | His request. was granted immediately. and couldn’t find ‘R. S. V. P.’ any place.”— Gouldner is a former member of the Marine Trench and Camp. Corps.—Recruiter’s Bulletin, Eli Went Up All Right! OH THE FLIGHT OF ELI = CHESTER, —\ O vanity Fair OUR SON ELI = — sta WRITES HE HAS Don’t sleep in the past! Be a Modern! JUST DONE HIS T. , FIRST FLYING ear off that coupon! de VANITY FAIR 19 WEST 44th STREET, NEW YORK CITY = Please send me the next FIVE issues of Vanity Fair. 1 oo ferscand Cust sou wil send. sre a comiplisnen= per Lary copy of the current iaue, making SIX lasses im ail. and Name. ork What a Fellow Writes Home Can Sometimes Be Taken Two Ways—The Air Scout comicbooks.com