Judge — May 31, 1919 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Who Stung Ed?—The foolish men want to waste money on conventions, politicians, parades and experiments; the foolish women want to waste money on dry goods. As a result, the average man pays more dry goods tax than he pays war tax. The big dry goods stores are ig the first half dozen of our great Ed Howe's Monthly. ame evils Home Comforts—“I understand Mr. beoin is good to his family.” Yes. He spends not less than $50,000 a year on his wife and daughters.” “And what docs he get out of it, I wonder?” “Why, a place to eat and sleep when business permits, a dressing-gown, an easy chair a pair of house slippers. What more docs a man want?"—Birm- ingham Age-Herald. Right There with that Kind—‘ The trouble with Fritters is he lacks applica- tion.” “The deuce he does! Why, he applies to me for a loan once a week, regularly.”” Boston Transcript. A Bird in the Hand—“I'm a very busy man, sir. What is your proposi- tion?” “T want to make you rich.” “Just so. Leave your recipe with me and I'll look it over later. Just now I'm engaged in closing up a little deal by which I expect to ¢ $3.50 in real money.""—Brooklyn Citizen. The Mountain-Climbing Tank Flicgende Bl (Berlin). A Demobilization Tragedy FURNIS| DEPAR The C When Bills Don’t Count—Having made his payments for Liberty Bonds, war chest, rent, coal, gas, and groceries, the poor man was broke. But he needed summer clothes, so he compromised by digging through a closet and unearthing a plaid vest that belonged to a summer suit he had worn some years ago. He brushed off the vest and felt in the pockets. Eureka! A discovery! In the inside pocket of the vest was a roll of bills, amounting to $123, And not one of them was receipted.— Cincinnati Enquirer. The Overhead on Hats—If he ta one meal a day in a restaurant or café 7 omer—By Jove! The Colonel! in a season a New Yorker will spend $20 buying a $5 hat back from a check boy who gets about $6 a week, and who works for a concern which pays handsomely for the checking concession and furnishes the help to run it. A New Yorker is the big- gest sucker in the world.—Em poria Gazette. The Origin of Specie—Mrs. Wayup Where did Mrs. de Style get her new hat? Mrs. Blasé—That’s a problem. She bought it with the money which her hus. band borrowed from her uncle, who had won it in a poker game from her brother, to whom she had loaned it shortly after her mother had taken it from her father’s pockets and given it to her for a birthday nt.—New York Globe. comicbooks.com