Judge — July 2, 1921 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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“YE'VE COME HERE TO DISCHARGE ME! Don’t tte aBout it!” “No, no, Marte, no! I onty caAME IN TO SAY GOOD-BYE!”” The Piffle About Pep By H.K. Epert SOME of us can remember the time when judgmeut was respected in business, manners counted in social intercourse, and dignity se emed proper in the church. Now the first thing they ask of a man is, “Has he any pep?” Pep has put poise out for the count. The quiet, steady, thoughtful man who has his employer’s interests honestly at heart is outshone by the shallowpate who gurgles with easy enthusiasm and imparts to his labors a noisy and feverish activity. The courteous, self-contained gentle- man seems dull and old-fashioned in com- parison with the exuberant spirit who is hailed as “the life of the party.” The kindly, benevolent preacher of years agone is fast giving place to a mili- tant person who swears in the pulpit. A dash of peppei adds a fine flavor, but too much spoils the dish. This mania for pep has substituted jazz for music, sex stories for literature and slap-stick stuff for humor. It is responsible for short skirts and red cheeks; Charlie Chaplin mustaches and 'ATERMAN’S Ideal Fountain Pen is the product of an organization that for the past thirty-six years has been making fountain pens exclusively. Today the line of Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pens covers every proven advance in fountain pen construction. It includes the regular and safety types of dropper filled and pump and lever filling devices aie self-flkng types. Being pioneers and recognized leaders of the industry, we are the natural market for inventors with ideas that in their judgment would improve our product. No one is or has been keener to investigate these claims than we are, because it has been our intention from the first that if ever a better fountain pen than Waterman’s Ideal was made we would make it. It has happened and will happen again that fountain pens appear on the market with “talking point” devices that during our far greater experience we have already experimented with and found either impractical or inferi- or to devices of our own intended for the same purpose. The man, woman, or child who buys Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pen gets 100% fountain pen efficiency because every material, process or device included in it has been proven by the longest years of experience and experiment as unequaled for its purpose. Back of every Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pen is a world-wide service to assure its enduring satisfaction, THREE TYPES— Regular, Safety and Self-filling, $2.50 to $250 Selection and Service at Best Stores Throughout the World L. E. Waterman Company, 191 Broadway,N.Y. 129 So. State Street, Chicago 24 School Street, Boston 17 Stockton Street, San Francisco | embezzlement; automobile accidents and @ | the shimmy. Draven by Mente Jounson-+A. L. L. Gettinc THE Hook. | Children who ought to be spanked and | sent to bed are goggled at by fond parents because they show pep. | Old folks who ought to know better are dragging their poor, complaining legs over the dance floor to show they still have pep. Who started this preposterous piffle about pep anyway? Financial Note Teacher—Where is the capital of the United States? Bright Lad—In Liberty Bonds! 3 His Burning Retort De Style—King George has sent coal to Canada. Gunbusta—That’s nothing; President Harding has sent Wood to the Philippines. What He Was Looking For “T do wish Harold,” said Mrs. Comely, “that you wouldn’t stare at other women so much. It’s very rude and is certainly no compliment to me.” “On the contrary, my dear,” replied the resourceful benedict, “I was looking to see if I could find a prettier face than yours and I confess I really cannot.” comicbooks.com