Judge — December 20, 1919 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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HIS probloid is easy 7 fe ' 1e legends of antiquity described several | things that were supposed to be impossible. Hercules, i} for instance cleaned the Augean Stables. But we, } to-day, every day, in fact, have many tasks set us to which that little job seems simple. _ It is hard for us to ise the rent, for instance but still, it is easy enough for the landlord, and so that won't do. ome people say it is hard to make both ends meet, pwadays; but if they try it with a hairpin they will have little difficulty. The discovery of the North Pole? The ascent of the Highest Himalayas? But you forget the aeroplane! With experience and a capacity one can even get Bll drunk, so the Prohibitionists tell us, on 2.75 beer. The husband of a brunette sometimes found it hard he } Prosioiw No. t Prize- WINNERS aaa The Probloid was: \ A subtitle for a movie scene showing Lloyd George as With the Vanhat keeper of a faro and dance h in Arizona dancing «ith one of her curls for a keepsake HE printer’s strike, the scarcity of sugar, and the President’s illness *n everything so delayed the Nov. roth issue of Jupce that we have had to be leni- ent with that ten-day limit 1. All answer within which answers were Cards, the Ic to have been filed. Nevertheless, the winner i, came in under the wire just on time with the following — ; solution which is hereby awarded: be ad ress of the C mpetitor may Post Card Probloid No. an barber, Larruping Lloyd, the bold b bad by RULES s must be written in i g way of the Card. fth Avenue, New York. er must be accompanied by the Name and ompetitor, send as n ded each is written = not est, will receive a Prize of Five Dollars plished in JUDGE will receive a FIRS PRIZ ; “So you refuse to sell | a lock! By | rge, I'll pick this one | like a reel burglar, and | add it to my ‘air of dis- | © The Answer which, in t i} tinction!” bs | Henry Fisner, 7. Every other Answer p 200 West 84th St., Payment of One Dollar | New York City. 8. Answers will be publishe | fourth issue of JUDGE Not only that, but, with a uncement of the Pr H determination worthy of a 2 a Gevetrr BurGess to explain the presence of a blonde hair on his shoulder but that was before the days of female hat-snatchers at the restaurants. After you've been to a vaudeville show, or a circus, you begin to believe that anything one can thirk of, one can do. But then W. J. Bryan, you know, has held the thought for some time, and if we give the President time enough, and a few more dictionaries, somebody else may have a chance at the White House. It seems hard to make water run up hill, until you go to the sea shore and watch the tide come in. And if you talk in your sleep about Rosalie—pshaw, that’s just the name of your latest oil-well Everything is too easy, in this world, it seems to me. I want to have somebody tell me of something Really difficult, and tell it in less than thirty-one words. That is the Probloid better cause, the same happy author sent in another, al- most as good: “George's six-shooter picks a curl from the pick of the pictures, while Miss Pickford 1s swinging to the pick of the ukalele.” a © boy, Mary Pickford (disguised as oo his famous scissors But any of the following, rlie Chaplin) and shoot- \Z t appropriates a cork- we think, might get a posi- 14 rew tress froc the d tion as subtitle writer with ng beauty. Ms Max Sennet “Lured by the lilting jazz, It and fairly flummoxed by Chary Chapford’s fluttering feet, the faro Premier draws a bead on Chary’s hair ap- parent and kops a curl for keeps. » of Richmond, Va kor typewritten Lewis A. Burveicn, Augusta, Me. to Gelett Burgess, ¢ s “He his trusty shooting-iron for a curling- iron” R. P. Conway, Philadelphia, Penna. uses “Oh Lloyd, you have taken one of the locks from my head so that I am losing my mind!” Dax Daty, eland, Ohio. desired, t Card. the Contest must be han Ten Days afte Cle which Announcement of the ‘Two aspirants sent in an- swers as neatly lettered as any we have ever seen on a joldwyn film, with the ad- ditional merit that neither Clinton Spencer of New York pinion of Gelett Burgess, is nor J. W. Korninsky of and Prizes awarded in Union City, Conn., mis- after that containing the An- spelled a word in his sub- rid, title, nor made an error in grammar! One them, comichooks.