Judge — January 8, 1921 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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Drown by Osos Low et \ By H.W. Davis ET out your cyclopedia of this week's literary finds. Here comes Cot about Inki, the Ethiopian vorticist, Fiji versifier of the Malay Peninsula, ance Current with all the latest gabt the free ten or a dozen other hea then with amazing viewpoints and indigestible suggestions about the ultimate achievement of the original purpose Constance lingered so long in a high-brow college for the already-overcultured that they gave her a Ph. D. in philology or something equally harmless to get rid of her. Her degree and } her interest in the infallibility of heathen viewpoints went to her head, and now she is incurable. A Maid of the Moment And that is not the worst of it. They haven't penned her up, and she is at large, flitting hither and yon with incessant chatter about people and movements that you have never heard of and are glad that you haven't. Miss Current's intellect is thoroughly modern in every respect like a new hotel. She knows everything that is recent and very little that is worth while. So afraid is she that what she knows will get musty that she airs it at every turn. But here’she is—about to greet us. We must be prepared for her. [ll chat with her about Inki, and you take Fiji Foo. ] In Spite of Prohibition Teacher (to a class of Kentucky youngsters)—When the sun goes down in the West, what comes up behind those hills? Like a flash, a dozen hands were raised. “Well?” queried the teacher, greatly pleased by this mani- festation of alertness. “ Moonshir chorused the twelve youngsters. Apvaxce Rovatties Narrow Escape By Maxy Granam Boxxer SoM! IMES she looked at him with annoyance. Now and Y again he could be trying. But not for long, for when she was about to be indignant there flashed through her mind the narrow escapes she had had She might have married Jack —who had since grown corpulent. She might have married Peter—who had since become bald. She might have marricd Jimmy—who talked of nothing save the unfairness of prohibition and the bad luck he had at_ bridge She might have married Philip—who was first-cousin to a miser, She might have married Stephen—who flirted. And she changed her scowl into a smile as she looked at her handsome husband. Sometimes he looked at her with annoyance. Now and again she could be trying. But not for long, for when he about to be indignant there flashed through his mind the DW s+ capes he had had He might have married Grace—who had taken up every “cult” in turn. He might have married Frances—who had grown to be as fat as her mother before her. He might have married Dorothy—who had become sloppy, very sloppy He might have married Rosalie—who talked of nothing save her children and servants He might have married Elizabeth—who liked other married men. And he always changed his scowl into a smile as he looked at his wife. n { comicbooks.com