Judge — February 22, 1919 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Un espéce d'ind Expanded Ideas—“ Mike,” said Plod ding Pete, “let’s git back to our favorite old time question. What would yous do if you had a million dollars?” “Quit. pikin’. Nobody start ything wit? less dan a billion.” Washington Star nowadays Flattery Did It—" You seem able bodied and healthy; you ought to be strong enough to work,” she remarked scrutinizingly “Yes, ma’am, I know. And you seem beautiful enough to be on the stage, but evidently you prefer the simple life.” He got a meal without any further reference to work ’eople’s Home Jour nal. Beat Him To It—The stranger on a walking tour came across an “old, old man a-sitting on a gate” and asked “You are a farmer, I suppose? “No, not now. Lused to be, but I gave “Well, you don’t scem to be very busy You have plenty of time on your hands, haven’t you?” “Lots of it.” “ Ever do any work?” “Onee [ did.” “What do you do now, if [ may ask?" “Don’t do nothing. Hain't done noth ing for nearly ten years.” “So. Why, you're in luck! If I had done nothing for half that length of time I should be in the poorhouse.”” The old man’s face beamed with a glad surprise, and, then, as one who knows his rare good fortune and values it at its just worth, he cried delightedly: “That's where 1 be!"—Pittshurgh Chronicle-Telegraph. HIGH-BROWS “What's Strange Professor Diggs doing now?’ “Oh, 1 g Egyptolog “Fancy a detached attitude like that when ancient Thebes and Memphis inter est_a man more than Versailles, with Colonel House, so to speak, in the offing!” Birmingham Age-Herald. s he’s still delving into “Do you believe in sked Professor Diggs Hardhead Conservatism metempsychosis?" “No,” answered = Mr. promptly. “Why not?” “Chiefly because there is no dictionary at hand to tell me what the darned word Ige-Herald means.""—Birmingham comicbooks.com