Judge — May 28, 1921 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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Joux H. A Husband’s Thoughts B MeNetry "TIDY blue flames ilickered and died in the log fire. The lamp with the orange-colored shade threw a dull duced glow over his round, pufly face and his shiny, bald head as he sat in the cushioned tapestry armchair and gazed She sub preoccupied into the fireplac was reclining on a divan opposite, te- urding her husband intently. She ob- erved the vexed frown that ruffled his forehead, the sunken spots the lines denoting fatigue around his nose, and the drooping mouth. A feeling of compassion for him took pos- session of her. This is what the wife thought that her husband was thinking: ‘I've had a terrible day at the €. I don’t sce how I can stand many more of them. My nerves are on edge and I amacomplete wreck. It wouldn't be so bad if I could come home and forget my troubles, but here am worrying about them now. The responsibilities of man- aging a business have become so strenu- ous that I sometimes doubt if I can hold upunder them. Really, if it were not for my family I would give up entirely.” This is what the husband was really thinking: er picture I saw this afternoon. [ didn’t care much for the ending. It was rather disgusting, too, the way the husband deceived his wife. I hate that sort of thing, but the picture, of course, was simply portraying one side of life. Still, she was very stupid not to catch on to the way her husband was making excuses about going to work all the time. , I've got to stop spending so much time at the pictures ternoons and stay around the office more. I'm getting fan. Wonder how the market closed jer his eyes. _> Drawn by Curnuos Baskeavtiur, Ja THE ONLY HONEST- TO-AGNES INGENUE IN THE PARTY, WHOSE THOUGHTS WERE MORE UPON THE CEREMONY AT THE CHURCH THAN THE PROSPECTS OF THE COLUMNS OF ACCOUNTS Ov IT IN THE SOCIETY PERS. “That was a cle’ There Are Others Mars is not the only planet that is drying up. -—~ ww De AND AREN'T YOU EVER GOING TO LEARN TO SWIM OT UNLESS TH’ SEA WATER TURNS TO BEER, Mua. Tue Kextucky ramovs. The Duke of Paducah By Groxcr Mitcneut MAN WHO MADE ra oxy Sano and quartered by Havana Wrap per Pp J DGI him from every angle, Irvin Cobb may easily be called the Heavy-Weight Champion of Light Literature. His text-books on Medico-Science have taken the sin out of Medicine, the rations out of Operations, and the urge out of Surgery. He is one of our most involuble citizens—a man of a few thousand words. He is the pic-eyed piper of American Letters in that he has led the American people to laugh, that laughing, they might grow as fat as himself. By and large, he has made his name as famous in Ken- tucky as Feuds and Moonshine, and that’s a man-sized job to do with a mere, dumb typewriter Urban and Rural By" D ELICIOUS fun is found when authors write Of life remote from city blaze and din; How natives hasten on their fevered flight To depots just to see the train come in. womas J. Murray But naught is said about the wild applause In city halls where drama is the rage; Enthusiasm knows no saving clause, When paper locomotives hold the stage! ? comicbooks.com