Judge — May 8, 1920 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Digest of His First Meal baby his daily vocabulary drill, Inthe meal is it?" Oatmeal Mother was giving morning when we eat what * was the lisping answer Indianapolis News. Still Fond of the Rattle Kedd—So you've had the baby out in your flivver I see Greene Oh, ves, take him out every slay in it “Does he like it?” He's tickled to death! was brought up on a_ rattle You know he Yonkers Statesman Why Not?—Flathusi—Have they de cided on a name for the baby yet? Bensonhurst—Not yet “Why the de “Well, she wants it called after her father—Peterson, “And he Oh, he wants it called after his father whose name is Peter.” “TL suppose they'll compromise.” What « n by compromise?” “Why Yonkers States man ou m call it’ Pete.” Undesirable wits laby sent down from heaven?” “Why, yes.” “Say, mamma, Um. They like to have it quiet up there. don’t they?"—The Home Sector Just Like Pop— Mrs. Bacon — Does the baby take after you or his father? Mrs, Egbert—Oh, his father Why do you think so?” “Because every time the little opens his mouth he puts his foot in it.”— Yonkers Siatesman dear the Buy Products sft) worth at L.? Nothing doin She Was Honest—Mrs. Flathush Did you ever act as a judge at a baby show? Mrs. Ben “T supy trouble decid Deautiful haby “Ldid not. My own child was in the —Yonkers Statesman, hurst—Oh, yes; once. you had a good deal o g which was the most show.” In Father's Footsteps—Mrs, Smith —Does the baby take after your hus- hand? Mrs. Jones—Ves, indecd. We have taken his bottle away from him, and the other day the little darling tried to creep down the cellar steps.—The Home Sector, World’s Humor Overdone Defense—The visitor to the lawyer's office stood in amaz “1 say, old man!” he excl “Whatever has happened to you? a motor smash or what?” The lawyer shook his head wearily as he gingerly touched his bruised and bandaged face. Had “No. You remember that case the other day when I defended a man charged with asstult? Well, E made a strong ples for him on the ground that he was a fool rather than a criminal.” “Yes, but I did it so well that he was acqu and he waited for me outside the coi San Francisco Argonaut Maybe So—In an Irish courthouse an old man was called into the witness box, and, ig confused and somewhat near sighted he went up the stairs th bench instead of those that led to the box. The Judge good-humoredly said Is it a Judge you want to be, my good mat?” “Ah, sure, yer worship,” was the reply. “I'm an old man now, and mebbe it’s all I'm fit for.”—Yoush’s Companion “T should hate to have shall try to Her Theory hushand who argued. 1 marry a lawyer.” “Why, lawyers are the very men who Bur not without a fee." —Sen Fran- cisco Chronicle, Legal Wisdom— Young Lccver—lf our case fails, what would you suggest? Old Ditto—Ii at first you don’t acquit, try again.—Baltimore American comicbooks.com