Judge — November 8, 1919 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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Quality First Drawn by Reuss Westover Soution or tHe Hicn Rext Promes Houselessness By Stricktanp GILLiLan AM writing this as I sit under a tree, sheltered only by the leafless branches and a check for the sale of my late residence. I am sorry about the perforations in the check, for cold weather is approaching. If it come on to rain, check certified. I did not think, when I frantically tried to sell my residence, because I needed ready money and was tired of being valet to an edifice—unpaid janitor of a one-family tenement—that I should experience any difficulty in getting a roosting place. No, I did not. I had come to hate that house because it kept the good lady backachy with work all the time and paralyzed with fear of burglars when I was away. I had ceased to look upon it as some place I owned for the sake of shelter and comfort, but rather as heavy liability. I was surprised that anybody wanted a house. But now I know why I want one myself. That n't such a bad sort of dump I sold. No sirce. It was a nice house. The roof was free from leaks, the walls kept out the wind, there were furnaces and fire-places and beds and bed-clothes and things in it, and my children were as welcome there as a morn in May. I have been trying to find shed and fodder for my herd, but I cannot. They see the boy and turn in a fire alarm. The other lodgers all want to be left alone with their thoughts. As if child- haters ever had any thoughts that oughtn’t to be interrupted! They have offered us closets in large houses with one bath room, where one must stand in line for weeks and weeks clutching a towel and muttering. Some day a boarder will kill another boarder for beating him to the bathroom A.M hey have offered us furnished flats at prices that would buy both the flat and the furniture in fifteen minutes. They have offered us a place that would be all right, if we would sign up for five years at a rate of rental that would be a joke by the time the lease expired. They have offered us everything on earth that we could not possibly take, and I shall have the sided Send No Moos fer ont tion, charges Examine care- Biunments ore SUPERIOR hanpestir'ot YEARLY INCREASE 1a J. Mi. LYON & CO., 1 Fate Coals Ra 10% Decent oo ot ‘Maiden Lane, fy Cash Perhases, EW YORK THEATRE COHAN & HARRIS wevanscest 1 Wed. & Sat. “BEST MUSICAL PLAY SINCE THE MERRY wipow” The Royal Vagabond ORIGINAL CAST THEATRE, Street W. of B: Sat. 2:30. REPUBLIG way. Evening 8:30, Mats, Wed. A. H. WOODS PRES ‘Ss A VOICE IN THE DARK With Original Cast HAPPY DAYS eveny"one wiz +HIPPODROME Seats 8 weeks ahead. MATINEE EVERY DAY HAPPY PRICES. carefully withheld everything we could use So I am sitting on the root of a Carolina poplar tree, sharing the shelter of the chilly pole, the leafless branches and the wrapping of a large check with my wife and son. The grass is getting short in this vicinity, winter is coming on, the boy is growing, and there are perforations i in the check that let in the wintry blasts. But if it rains I shall have the check certified. t Drawn by NoRMAN ANTHONY “What's lingerie, dad?” T. B. Mf. —Material for making chorus girls. comichooks.coyy