Judge — December 31, 1921 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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| | | | West Indies If you do business ever expect to visit Cub you will want these g the Virgin Islands. you will gain much from ting text and their remarkable pictures which have becn specially gathered {or these books and printed from new type and plates on fine quality book paper. ursions, sports I facts and. Pocket size, flexit in colors, helpful 1 on receipt of price. A. companion the West, Indi Island of Cu Commerce; H: The very latest and best, authoritative Guide Books to Cuba and the are interested in, or and the West Indies, t_and best, au’ uba and the West | sickly simper of the h Ma LC Jotul mape. 75c Postpaid on receipt of price, WILLIAM GREEN, INC. 627 W. 43rd ST., NEW YORK CITY Judges’s National Smile Week AMONG the thousands of responses favoring Judge’s National Smile Week, from prominent persons in all walks of life, come occasional bits of humor and cheer worthy of reproduc- tion. George T. Treadwell, of Selma, Ala- bama, sends in his letter something that this generation perhaps has not seen, although the grandfathers will remember it—Josh Billings’s “How to Laugh”: “Thar is one kind ov a laff that i always did rekommend: it looks out ov the eye fust with a merry twinkle, then it kreeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze ov a kandle, then it steals over into the dimples ov the cheeks and rides around into those little whirlpools for a while, then it lites up the whole face like the mello bloom on a damask rose, then it swims oph on the air with a peal az klear and az happy aza dinner- bell, then it goes back agin on golden tiptoze like an angel out for an air- ing, and laze down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it cum from.” Forrest V. Routt, Principal, Alham- bra City High School, Alhambra, Cal., writes: “I am heart and soul for anything that will produce and promote clean and wholesome mirth. 1 have long been an en- thusiastic advocate of the value and power of the smile: not the sar- donic grin of the misan- thrope; not the leer of the sensualist, nor the sneer of the supercili- ous; not the smirk of the egotist, nor the sentimentalist; but the frank, open, toothpaste- ad smile of whole-souled mirth, good fellowship, and good humor.” Representative Thomas D. Schall, writ- ing from Washington, contributes this timely rhyme: Sing a song of Volstead, Snoot full of rye, Four .and twenty high- balls In his tummy lie. When the Court was opened, The stew was in a daze, At the Judge’s murmur: “Ten dollars or ten days!” William R. Dodd, of the Health Department, Akron, O., writes: Mine is a sad story. 2 Formerly known as “Smilin’” Bill, | was an inspiration in any gathering, With my smiling countenance I have time and again chased away the sor- rows and tears of others—but that was in the past. To-day I go about my work with a seriousness that casts a pall over my home. No more do I meet my wife with a smile. My face is drawn and my lips turn down. My friends have even turned against me. They look upon me with a sus- picion that is maddening. On every hand I hear it insinuated that I have committed some crime and that my conscience is slowly killing me; but on February 12 next it will all be over, and I will be able to smile again. I can’t smile now, for I am engaged in a serious business, an occupation that is nerve-racking. I live in deadly fear that I will miss one of them. I am looking for smiling faces. I must win the contest that Judge is now conducting. Charles Chaplin wires from Holly- wood, Cal.: “Enroll me in the smiling throng, and we'll all smile together!” DISTANCE PREVENTS “My wife and I never argue.” “Don’t you spend any time at home at all?” Drawn by CLive Weed. A private view—The lady whose pet phrase is: “Yl make a man of you yet.” comicbooks.com