Judge — December 27, 1919 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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mem Almusement COHAN & HARRIS Fea TE irae ea a Sur 3) COHAN & HARRIS Present THE ROYAL VAGABOND _ “BREAKING ALL RECORDS" The Girl le] The Limousine "100 FUNNIER THAN ‘FAIR AND WARMER’ REPUBLIC Aa HW. WOODS PRESENTS A Voice in the Dark _“Begins where all mystery plays end"—N. Y. Globe HAPPY DAYS MATINEE EVERY DAY THEATRE Be Evening 830° Mates Wed. &s EVERY ONE! The Trysting Place By D. B. Vax Bures HE who is so fortunate as to possess a mind should be careful not to mislay it. Ab: sence of mind at critical periods is fatal to happiness. If Grimley, when arranging to meet his wife and take her to dinner, had made a note of the hotel appointed as the trysting place, he would not have found himself stalled on the corner of Fulton Street and Broadway, with the shades of night falling fast and his mind a welter of con tradictions. For the life of him he couldn't remember the name Mrs. Grimley had shricked down the stairs as he bolted through the door late for the train, as usual, and consequently he hadn't the least idea where to go. In great agitation he ran over the names of all the hotels he could think of, t not one struck an answering chord. “God help me!” he groaned, as he realized his predicament, “A scrap of paper may not avert the ruin of a state, but it would save mea row with my wife! It’s all the fault of the beastly system! If there were but one hotel instead of a thousand, one could remember, but with half the counties of Europe and all the Pullman cars wie HIPPODROME HAPPY PRICES Seats annexed to bills of fare, confusion of thought is inevitable: \ thin lash of rain loaded with East River chill touched him coldly, reminding him that he had also forgotten his overcoat “Deuce take it!” he muttered, “I cannot stand here all night! At least, 1 can go up town,” and he hailed a passing taxi “Where to?” asked the “1 don’t know,” blurted absent-minded honesty “What!” ejaculated the chauffeur, and made as though to open the door, but thought better of it. “Well, why not?” he reilected, * there's more 1 y to be made to around nuts » don’t know where nt to go, than who do,” with which comforting conclusion, he headed north I should "he said to himself ly’s Laboring mind reflected the confusion of the street. In vain he called ne of every hotel he had ever splendid proce great but none suggested out Grimley, with they w from those to mind the na heard of In hostelries sed in review Mrs. Gr y T must try fter all. is 7 Now. if I coul * but the o1 hat oc k hotels were snother thod,”” he conclude memory tter of a: ciation related fact! to him in connectis nitude of their bills, ac ful. He put his I ud che sl de the morti a straw hat © This It is b ough to feel 1 ass. but to be clothed like n the streets of New York on r day hich seemed into overy too, and cold Nove t Leghorn—but no Drawn by J. K. Buyaxs My audiences never appl "They wait for the fi Maybe that’s the part th 30 ad when I'm speak like the best.” ‘THE INSTRUMENE OF QUALITY Semi-permanent Silvered Needles play many times, mellow the tone, do away with the inconvenien and are toed on ALL meres of steel n Selt. 25¢ per package of 5. ot oll dealers Sonora Phonograph Sales Co., 279 Broadway, N. Caution! Peyre frequent matter, astronomical This wearing of clothes to please abstraction is not what it cracked up to be. [am ina worse sweat no than f ever was in July, so why not dress ax gly?” and he fell to seeking inspiratio the fronts of the hotels they here in those gilded halls his w How | nuld she wait? He wait putiently? How long woul wait at al? And if they ever met again, wh Ishe say? He feared she would sy muc would find no answer. ” he retlected, “pec her before, and in such ¢ he only precedent he e and | pass waiting would what happens? recall was the sad case of Evangeline mlessly to: nissing one another pictured himself about the Met street ¢ and 4 in well, not in Phila , surely—but Belles L complete the parallel. At the ne of Bellevue he shuddered, and hi 1 uve shuddered still more could he have looke into the chauficur’s mi that gentleman’s thought ju as to his ultimate destination. “It isa case for alcohol,” he concl rum can help me now. Plai mind has gone forever, but a couple of cocktails may bl up the embers sufficiently to enable me to find my wife,” and he stopped the car in front of th Darbyshire. He was painfully conscious of his unseason able headgear, and fancied the crowd eyed hint curiously as he made his way through the corri dor. “And yet it must be pure delusion,” thought, “for a freak is nowhere so inconspicu ous as ina New York hotel. Probably merely nother symptom of my disorder,” and then a hwell-known voice at his elbow said “It's a good thing I noticed you'd fc fvour hat and overcoat and brought them along gotten utrte Srp Dre $2.25 posted. Heda kevleage a Wite Sold ve “inher Peepie's Oplalons"*and Table of Contents Puritan Pub. Co. Dept. 792, Central, Philadelphia, Pa. comicbooks.com