Judge — March 15, 1919 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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March 15, 1919 Jothing to Read sin th By Waur Masox 1 leary g MeL Wee OMETIMES, when tired and went) broken-kneed, at close of toilsome mm * ~ matte day, I look around for things to Z yin it read, to pass the eve away. My velves are loaded down with books, all ke i ¢ the chosen with great care; and there are +H } wove lumes in all nooks, and others every= ; : ¢ by here. I look around upon the pile of t iuthors gone to seed, and cannot spring cheerful smile, for nothing’s fit to read. | ! have the works of Walter Scott, all |} und in handsome cloth; time was when Walter's stirring rot was cutting quite a gand wath. His haughty knights and armored | | pular juires once fascinated me; his min- | | fi nan or trels, with their wooden lyres, were | | : st one peaches, you'll agree. He pictured an- | cient times with truth, and boosted hali- — | Smuts domes; but in his books there is no | Ico leuth, there is no Sherlock Holmes. Oh, | | Oper what's a book, I ask of you, where no de- | Iman tective’s seen, though it be bound in royal | | ood blue, in buckram red and green? ere i I have the poets in a row, from Milton | |) of th down to me; and there are Shelley, Pope ind Poe, a goodly bunch to see. But ene ter te hen a man’s been working hard, a long, € real long, beastly time, he has no use for any woul d who does not wade in Crime. When ne is bent by honest toil or burning gaso- , that’s when he yearns for Conan Doyle or good old Anna Green. And ven Shakespeare is a bore; he tracks no nner down by finger prints upon a door, or bloodstains on a gown. John Milton had a bulging dome, but he made one listake; he had no Watson in his pome. to pull the bonehead break. | My house is full of noble works, includ- ng Homer's screed, those flights of quence of Burke’s—but nothing's fit to ead. I look at Virgil's stately song, ng thing, in sooth, and wonder why he | arted wrong, and failed to spring a leuth When I come homeward from the mart, vhere I have earned a scad, I do not care i hoot for Art, and Beauty makes me ad. I de care a picayune for sages or for seers; I vt admire the rhythmic rune, or music of the spheres. I want to read a helpful book, the kind no reader drops, in which a voter slays his cook, and baffles all the cops. I want | to see the sleuth once more, the sleuth | with eagle stare, who picks a hairpin from | the floor and reads the truth right there. | I wonder why men waste their time | compiling leng tomes which introduce | DAMASKEENE RAZOR Shaving with aGEM Razor is just as easy and pleasant as it looks—let the “young shaver’’ remember that those who have had shaving experience use the GEM, and are good ones to pattern after—they’re setting a valuable example. Your razor is cerong if the blade is not right. The GEM Blade in a GEM frame makes a perfect combination for a perfect shave. $7 00 Sam Complete d favorite for over 25 years Millions in use today a soar- lc. Includes frame, shaving and stropping handles and seven Gem Blades in handsome case as illustrated, or in Khaki case for traveling. no curves in crime, and spring no Sher- lock Holmes. Gem Cutlery Company, Inc., New York Canadian Branch, $91 St. Catherine St, W., Mestreal Whitecaps As proof of its service Throughout the big scrap, Each billow is wearing Its overseas ¢ comicbooks.com