Judge — April 9, 1921 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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ONTHEFARM Unique Distinction—" Don’t ever think of giving up your farm and moving to town?”” No,” said Mr. Cobbles, “I don’t. If people keep on going to the cities to live, the way they are doing now, the man who stays in the country will some day become a sort of celebrity.”—Birm ngham Age -Herald, you How He Managed It—A Sullivan county farmer hired a man to help him gather his corn last season. Now, the farmer had a reputation for being an efficient worker, but the hired man was not daunted by it. They started out side by side, the hired man being ad. vised by the farmer to keep as close to him as he could with the row he gathering. But lo! the new worker after a few minutes of keeping up with the farmer passed him and soon was several feet ahead. Frantically the farmer pulled the cars from the stalks, but the new man still kept gaining. Then all at once he heard the farmer shout. ‘“Stop!’’ "he velled. “Stop, if you want to work for me. I never yet Iet any man who worked for me get ahead of me.” And because he wished to hold his job the hired man “slowed up.”"—Jndian- apolis News. The Drawbacks of Democracy “Me, Too, str. I’ riety Yeas oLp— just Like THe Reunite.” “An, Reatty? How meauTirun i aust wave “BEEN DURING THE Estrin!” —Le Journal Amusant (Paris) Not Deaf to Definition Small Boy Parent—(w y, Por, CAN YOU PUT ME WISE AS TO WHAT A PHENOMENON 15? »se speculations need concentrated thought) A PHENOMENON, MY BOY, WOULD BE A YOUTH ABOUT YOUR AGE WHO DID NOT WorRY HIS SENIORS.—London Mail. What the She Wanted—At office a little girl deposited a dime in front of the clerk and said: “Please, I forgot the name of the stamp mamma told me to get, but it’s the kind that makes a letter hurry up.” Boston Transcript. post All the Same to Her—That daddy in the eyes of childhood is always just big a man as any in the world was ev in the West Indianapolis denced one day branch librar; A tiny, smiling girl stood at the desk. “What does your father do?” asked the librarian in an effort to identify her father among the many men of the same name in the city directory. {e’s either a ‘millioncer’ or an engin- cer, and I can’t remember which,” re- turned the tiny one, with a puzzled frown.—Indianapolis News. Pa Ought te Know—Mother—We must get a nurse for the baby. New Pop—A nurse? What we need is a night watchman.—Boston Transcript. v7 Needless Exertion—Jimmy’s mother as giving him a sound scolding about his unwashed neck. “You know you haven't washed your ” said his mother. ¢ whiz!” said Jimmy, a note of eration creeping into his voi n't I goin’ to wear a collar?”—N York Sun. Heavy Consumer of Gasoline— “Didn't your boy graduate from col- lege last year?” “Yes, and he tells me he is still ‘look- ing about him.” “What kind of business do you think he will enter?” “I don’t know, but if all the young women he hauls around in his motor car paid him taxicab rates he would soon be a millionaire.”—Birmingham Age Herald, A Definition—Little Dorothy had been intently watching her brother, amateur artist, blocking out a landscape in his sketch book. Suddenly she ex- claimed excitedly, “I know what dr. 1, Dot, what is it?” asked her brother. “ Drawing is thinking, and then mark- ing round the think.”"— Kind Words. comicbooks.com