Judge — August 6, 1921 — page 21: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Tl get -old n?” “qt ike 0 ine, the uch vas ere me ind 1gs ol- n’s YWEUIM mammy came in for her monthly allowance. As she could not write, she made her mark. Previously she had always made an X, but on this occasion she made a circle. “Why, Linda,” said the man in charge, “why don’t you make an X as usual?” And Linda, replied earnestly: “Why, I done went and got married yesterday and changed my name.”— The Arrow. SAVE THE SLEDGE—A couple of negroes were digging a hole in hard ground under a_ sidewalk. One, down in the half finished hole, held a small iron pipe upright, upon the end of which the other pounded with a large sledge in order to loosen the dirt. The sledge wielder swung the heavy tool rather recklessly, and it looked as though he might miss at any moment and strike his com- panion’s head, just below. A pass- ing white man cautioned: “Better be more careful, Tom, or you’ll bring that sledge down on Andy’s head.” “All right, boss,” replied the sledge swinger, seriously; “Ah’ll be more careful; dis am de only sledge we got.”—Arkansas Thomas Cat. BrRokKE—“Judge, I wuzn’t shootin’ no craps. I wuz lookin’ on when de cop grabbed me.” “Yes, your honor. He was stand- ing there with the lining of his pockets pulled out.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. Full Value Received “THIS IS A FINE PICTURE! IT WAS PAINTED AS ‘STILL LIFE,’ EXHIBITED AS A LANDSCAPE AND SOLD AS A PORTRAIT.” —Die Muskete (Vienna). A-Hunting We Will Go! UTILIZING A USELESS IMPLEMENT —“He is a man of great scientific attainments.” “What has he ever done?” “He discovered a process for con- verting discarded corkscrews into can openers.”—Birmingham Age-Herald, THERE ARE OTHERS—In a man’s life there are three tragedies. The first is when he decides he’s too old for Lord Fauntleroy curls and mamma decides otherwise because they’re so cute. The second is when the high school Beatrice he can’t live without marries and he doesn’t die. The third is his shape in a bathing suit.—Boston Transcript. 23 His DILEMMA—There are still one or two of the old-time “stock” the- atrical companies touring the smaller towns. One of these has at least twenty plays on its list. Recently it was giving a show in a village hall. The performance was pretty bad, but the villagers found it quite inter- esting till, at the great climax in the third act, the hero forgot his part. After an embarrassing silence of about two minutes he hissed audibly to the prompter: “What's the line?” “What’s the play!” the prompter hissed back from his little box, as he grabbed a pile of two or three dozen books and began to run through them feverishly—Los An- geles Times. Low DowN—Every man may have his price, but some are so cheap they give themselves away.—Petersburg Index-Appeal. comicbooks.com