Judge — December 18, 1920 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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a ee > a A Good Time Coming “Wett, WHAT DO You sez The New “Did = Mrs. Grabcoin vote? ‘0, she failed to get the social rec- nition at the polls she considered her How was that?” “Her cook was in line just ahead of her and refused to yield precedence.”—Bir- mingham Age-Herald. Admiration—* You seem very atten tive to that soap box orator.” “Yes,” replied the man who worries about fuel. “He is standing on the mak- ings of a fine bunch of kindling wood.” Washington Star The Horrors of Nepotism—"I'm sorry you were defeated,” said a sympa- thetic friend of the candidate. “ Perhaps it is better so.”” “That's the way to look at it.” “Yes, according to an elderly aunt of mine who keeps up with all the family connections, I have no fewer than four living relatives. I couldn't hundred have possibly provided jobs for more than half of them.”"—Birmingham Age Herald. Insect !—Mrs. Enpeck—Henry, I have political ambitions. Mr, Enpeck—Getting tired of confining your bossism to a certain party, ch?— Buffalo Express ABOUT ME TO LAUGH AT “ NOTHING YET, BUT THAT SEAT HAS JUST BEEN PAINTED don Weekly Telegraph The Pleasant Statesman— Disraeli used to say that although he was always forgetting their faces and never remem- bered their names, he had no difficulty in being pleasant to his followers in the House of Commons. “When I meet somebody in the lobby whom I don't know from Adam and I see that he ex- pects me to know who he is, I take him warmly by the hand, look straight into his eyes and say, ‘And how is the old complaint?’ I have never known it to fail.”"—Albany Knickerbocker Press A Footnote to History Lous XV Snow me Mrs. Newrich—No, HEELS ARE MUCH TOO SOMETHING A LITTLE LOWER, Louis XIV ox a Louis XIIL— (Turin) THESE 16 JOURYALISM 2, Looking For An Alibi—Friend— What's the idea of introducing jokes into your “Home Information” column. Editor—We had to do something to ex- plain the conduct of readers who got to laughing over our household hints.— Boston Transcript. Cavalier Treatment—The World reporter was refused an interview. All members of the family regarded him with hostility. The reporter was_ insistent, and following his professional intuition. poked his head through a crack in the door opening to the front room. He was promptly ushered out to the porch by two male members of the family and told to leave—Tulsa World. First Aid to Editors—"That’s a rather heavy paperweight you have on remarked the visitor. said the editor of the Toad- “That's what I call my vine Clarion. ‘mollifier.’” “Ves?” “Sometimes an infuriated citizen comes into my sanctum seeing red and vowing to skin me alive. I toy with this paper- weight a little and it isn’t forty seconds before his temperature is normal again.” —Birmingham Age- Herald. An Editorial Wail—*The milkman used to give us 30 tickets for the Tribune. When he paid up this week he gave us only a dozen. Measured in milk tickets the Tribune should be $3.75. Two bushels of wheat used to buy it. Measured in wheat this fall the subscription should be $4.25. Not long ago a subscription would buy 20 pounds of sugar, it now buys seven. Seven subscriptions would buy the editor a suit of clothing. Now it takes 37. The white paper in one subscription now costs five times the former price." —Marquette(Kan.} Tribune. His only Grievance—* Who is the indignant caller?” “One of our prominent citizens the editor of the Toadvine Clarion, “ who gave an interview to our local reporter and expressly stipulated that his name must not appear in print.” “Then it evidently got into the paper.” “Yes, and he’s mad because it was wrong.”—Birmingham — Age- said spelled Herald.