Judge — July 30, 1921 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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g YLIM Drawn by James Hammon Digest of the World’s Humor How Could She Tell?—J. D. F. writes us to tell of a young woman he ran across on the second floor of the Museum of Natural History the other day She stepped up to a colored man and asked: “Would you tell me where the museum is?” He looked at her astonished. “Ma land, lady!” he replied, “it’s all ovah de placc.”” “Oh, this is it then?” came from the young woman. “I didn’t know. “You see, I’m a stranger in the city.”—New York Evening World. Those Girls—Miss Thinii—Don’t you think my new dress is just exquisite? Her Friend—Oh, lovely! I think that dressmaker of yours could make a clothes- pole look graceful—Boston Transcript. The Untold Tale—A lady rang the Advocate phone Monday morning, as it tings a hundred times a day. But in this instance, the lady started to give an item for the paper. The reporter interrupted: “Wait a minute, please, till I get a pencil.” But the lady never hesitated, but kept on with the item. “Hold on a second,” pro- tested the reporter. “I’m not getting this —can’t remember it all—wait till I get a pencil,” and then left the phone to go to the pad and pencil. Returning to the reporter heard the woman’s voice just concluding—‘‘and be sure you put it in tonight’s paper,” and click!’ She hung up. And now she'll know why the item never got in this paper.— Columbus Advocate. His Name for It—She had the habit of being late in keeping appointments. Well, that’s nothing; so have other women. This particular day the appointment was with her husband. At last she did put in an appearance. “Oh, are you waiting for me, dear?” “Waiting? No; sojourning! ”—Yonkers Statesman. Reasonable Dismay—“The old-fash- ioned girl would have been horrified by the clothes now worn.” “True,” replied Miss Cayenne. “But the principal reason for her horror would have been the fact that such things were then wholly out of style.”—IWashington Star. Expert Economics mi i bitin “M NESS WOMAN, MY DEAR. PAIRS OF SILK STOCKIN: TO THIRTY FRANCS AND WITH THE FOUR DRED FRANCS I saveD I GOT MYSELF THAT DUCKY urtLe HAT I enviep so Mucn.—Le Rire (Paris). |UCED FROM FORTY 21 No Covering—‘Let me _ sce tongue,” said the doctor. your “Certainly,” said the patient, suiting the action to the word. “You're all right,” said the physician, “you’ve got what is called shirtwaist tongue.” “What's that?” asked the young man, inalarm. “Why, there’s no coat on it.”—Yonkers Statesman. Going Down.—A_ nervous woman went to have her throat examined by a specialist, who, while adjusting the laryn- goscope, remarked: “ You’d be surprised to know how far down we can see with this instrument.” “Is that so, doctor?” faltered the patient, Then after a pause, she said, “Before you begin, doctor, I ought to tell you that I really hadn’t time to mend that hole in my stocking before I came here.” — Houston Post. Incurable—A very fat man, for the purpose of quizzing his doctor, asked him to prescribe for a complaint, which he de- clared was sleeping with his mouth open. “Sir,” said the physician, “your disease is incurable. Your skin is too short, so that when you shut your eyes, your mouth opens.””—Boston Post. Pure Symbolism—“ They say Chinese doctors write complicated prescriptions.” “T can believe it after looking at a laundry check.”— Louisville Courier-Jour- nal. Comicbooks.com