Judge — December 27, 1919 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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1 written k of typewntten upon Post of the Card 2 wed to Gelett Burgess, care of JUDGE, w York 3. | answer must be accompanied by the Name and Addr of the Competitor ¢ An petit Answers as de each is written Post Card * has been said that the child of today is born with a high-school education. And by the time children are of age they know a heap more than their parents. How true that is! Why, I’ve seen debutantes that could smoke cigar- ettes before dowagers had ever taken their first puff! I've seen them reading books that their mothers thought were printed only in Latin The young girl of today knows more than you think she thinks you think she knows. Don’t take this sen- tence apart, however, to see how it works, or you may never get it put together again right She knows how the milk got into the cocoanut, 1 which is the older, the hen or the egg, and just what Bolshevism means, and why women paint in public, and why a musical comedy joke is sli tened at the poles, and sometimes W and Y. all of them know Y. She can teach her grandmother to suck ¢ as well ice cream soda Post Card Probloid No. 3 Personally Conducted by Gerett Burcess RULES The Prize-winning Replies to Probloid No. 2 cived at the ic date of id is made to be consi Ace of JUDC the Issue in which Announce 6. The Answer which, in the opinion of Gelett Bur: receive a Prize of Five Doll ther Answer published in JUDG of One Dollar Answers will be publis { JUDGE after that conta Probloid. s. Card not later th the Best, 7 Ev will receive a Payment fourth ii cement of the d Prizes awarded in t the Anno Why, then, shouldn’t she impart some of this wis- dom born of long inexperience? She should. Now for the next question—How? You, dear Reader, are going to tell me—in less than fifty-one words. What I want is a letter of advice from a daughter to a mother about to be marricd—for the second or third time, of course. The first time the poor woman had to trust merely to instinct and her fiancé. She had no daughter to help her. Shouldn’t a Daughter be her mother’s Best Friend? Shouldn’t she try to guide her, and Influence her for Good ’n everything? Sure Many a poor girl simply will not take her mother to the movies; not because she reads all the sub-titles out loud or even because she laughs at Doug Fair- banks: but because the poor woman thinks that Final Clinch shows how they really do it, in modern life. But how uld a daughter explain such things? That is the Probloid. vill be Announced in Next Week “Judge” Egg View News-Notes By Lesur Vas Every LATO PROUTY cornered a polecat last night, and reports that they are phew this season, but not far between Tink Nitz was among se persons who saw a world’s masterpiece movie play in Pollywog recently in which a letter that was crumpled up in the first reel appeared later on all nice and smooth, This is the first case on record of any thing unwrinkling with ag A stranger, who has bee in town several times lately ked Lem Bushnell, our marshal, how big Egg View : was. Lem reckoned that it enjoyed the population of thirty-five, and the stranger reckoned that he did, too. Corny Paine is swollen almost. beyond recognition = with pride, because a — Drawn by J. Re stranger had a look at “ Father Corny’s second-hand Polly- — V'll keep n the n about f ye'll promise not to tell mc wog automobile, and then told Corny that he bet it would go a mile on less gasoline than any five other cars combined Sherm Spoor is already preparing for next spring by leaving alot of empty tin cans scattered around his yard so that one will be handy whenever he decides to dig fishworms. Miss Phrony Edgin, who is enrolling for a course in star movie-acting, by ma has had a photograph « Tink Nitz’s dog taken, with Phrony for a back- ground. The Gift “What are give your w ‘ou going to for Christ- mas?” “T don’t know. I know where she has hidden it, but it wouldn’t be polite to look.” Stocked Up Pedler—Can't I sell you a paper of pins today, lady? Lady—No, thanks; my wort husband bought a new shirt yesterday © comichooks.