Judge — November 2, 1918 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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WET AND DRY | Hampering Reform—Barney Old- field, commenting on dry Los Ang and the possibility of bootlegging there, tells a story of a bootlegger in Kansas who, during confinement in the county jail, received a visit from some temper- ance women who brought him flowers and tracts. The bootlegger, instead of thanking them, berated them for their ingratitude. You folks busted up the greatest temperance movement in this county in years. [ was selling them fellows whiskey that was diluted as high as 75 per cent., and if you'd left me alone another month I'd a had ‘em drinkin pure water.” —San Francisco Argonaut. les Everything Going Dry—"What we need is individual drinking cups.” “What's the good of individual drink- ing cups with nothing to drink?” Kansas City Journal. The Antipodes Man—“I just got back from Australia,” said the washing- machine drummer, “and they have some queer customs down there. Human nature is supposed to be pretty much the same the world over, but I notife that each country has its own little hobbies. “T went into a public house—or, as we call it up here, a saloon—for a warming potion one cold night out on the plains down there. “The place was full of miners. The man behind the bar asked me if I wanted a ten or fifteen cent drink when I asked for whisky. When I said ‘ten cents’ he An Obsolete Spanish Implement ‘T ha caigut un qeixal? No ploris home, no ploris; Déu dona pa a qui no te dents.” “What? Crying because you have lost a tooth? Pooh! In this country you'll neyer need it."—Esquella (Barcelona) “C'Htait pourtant une Paix solide . . . elle s0 “And yet it was a solid peace . laid out the bottle, then a glass and a whisk broom. “Not wishing to break any customs or show myself .a newcomer in the land, I delayed taking the drink by studying the pictures on the wall. Then I scalped the free lunch for a while. Several people came in; but they all took fifteen cent drinks, and consequently got no whisk brooms with their drink. Finally a rough-looking miner came in and asked for a ten cent drink. “TI watched him as he took up the it came straight from Krupp's!”” The Hun * Peace" de Resistance 1 de chez Krupp!” La Baionnette (Paris). whisk broom in his left hand. Seizing the glass of whisky he poured it down hurriedly and went over to a bench in the corner.” “What did he do with the whisk broom?” asked one of the younger sales- men. “He dusted off one end of the bench and then lay down on it and had a fit,” replied the returned traveler. It cost the young salesman $3 to setUe up.—The Log of the Circumnavigator's Club. comicbooks.com