Judge — August 21, 1920 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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ae En ee TOT ae See TN On. Just too Late—Mrs. Kinks severe- ly)—Henry, there is an account in the paper about a business man leaving his wife and running off with a pretty typist. Mr. Kinks—I1s there? Mrs, Kinks—Yes, there is, and it’s the third account of the kind I’ve seen this week. Mr. Kinks—A|l this really doesn’t interest me, my dear. Mrs. Kinks—It does me, Henry, you have a pretty typist in your office. Mr. Kinks—No, we haven't. My partner eloped with her last week.— London Telegraph. cided.” Hoxp tus Ni “Yes, but did you observe also that it I wish you — was always the lady who thought first?” tenced yesterday in Special $ A Pardonable Blat— wouldn't call me your lamb when folks © —Columbia (S. C.) State. Why not, Eddie?” His Fear—Grimes makes me feel so sheepish."— breaking off your engagement with that — make young widow. Aren't you ai Baltimore American. take it to heart? Wise Man!—*"Mr, and Mrs. Slocum Gayleigh—No, but I’m afraid she will coat and IL couldnot a seem to be an ideal couple. Last night I take it to court.—Boston Transcript. behooves us to face these two catastrophes with the same fortitude we have exhibited in the face of other national mis- fortunes. Ts amusing objection raised by one artistic section to cer tain forms of New York’s proposed memorial to its repre sentatives in the late war is brought to mind again by the recent yacht race. These artists objected to some of the memorials proposed because they included the element of utility. To be truly artistic, they claimed, such a memorial should contain no suggestion of use. This is decidedly a departure from the old canon that the highest province of art is to make the useful also beautiful The 1920 yacht race scems to have introduced the new idea into the world of sport. The claim of all sports has hitherto 7 Peter—YOU ARE A MILLIONAIRE? Le WHI Karikaturen (Christiania) “Vamped"—“If you will permit me to say so, you have just had a beautiful caller.” a book agent,” replied the busi- h faraway look in his eyes “What was she selling?” “T couldn't tell you to save my life. All I know is that she smiled and I bought.” —Birmingham Age- Herald. Bond Market Note—Harry Brandon, who walk into Macy’s department store March 27, hung up his hat and IT reTcu A caMeL! noticed how their thoughts always coin- elected himself a clerk long enough to get possession of a raincoat which a custo- ad left for alterations, was sen- not less than six months and not more thar. three years in the penitentiary. “Tam abond salesman and I had to a good front,” Brandon said when aid she will asked if he had anything to say before sen- tence was passed. ‘I needed a new rain. fford one at the price asked.” —The Sun and New York Herald. Se you wrote been that they were something more than mere amusement The improvement of physique by emulation, the bettering of breeds and the increase of skill have all been urged as the reason for the development of sports by public contests. When the sport of yachting has been carried to the point where its finest products cannot race in fair weather and are afraid to race in stiff breezes, the sport has reached a degree of refinement that removes it from the realms of use or true sports: manship. Children sailing toy boats in a sheltered pond may be doing quite as much for the world the promoters of these tremendously elaborate and expensive contests between inter- national millionaires and syndicates. The America’s cup as a symbol of international pluck and seamanship appears to have shrunk in value. lcomicbooksteom