Judge — September 30, 1922 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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As We Were Saying by Arthur H. Folwell Nature Studies by W. E. Hill Her ball dropping in a robin's nest, a woman golfer climbed a tree and played it to the green. Are the works of Baron Munchausen out of print? I£ not, we'd like to add a postscript. And what a shame the Baron wasn’t a golfer! hands with 100,000 White House visitors in the course of a year. This winter, with the consequences of the coal strike upon the country, he should blow on the hands as well as shake them. Saad A toad takes one-sixteenth of a second to catch and devour his prey. We'd like to arrange a special speed trial between a toad and a New York quick-lunch patron, PAS ‘The tendency of too many Americans is to have no respect for their Government.—Gorernor of Kansas. One way for the American citizen to conserve his regard for his Government is to shut his eyes to all Washington dis- patches, and to read nothing more recent than the speeches of Daniel Webster. tse When Will Hays wearics of his movie job, Joe Martin might be cast for the part. Pisstrwia HARDING | shakes Joe can’t make as good a speech as Will, but he can look infinitely wiser. as The people who control the convention will frame the platform—A New York politician, But the really vital work of a conven- tion lies in framing the voters. ery PROHIBITION enforcement agents are singularly reluctant to get down to bed rock. Instead of arresting flask tipplers in restaurants and cabarets, why don’t they go after the leather mer- chants and silversmiths who brazenly dis- play both flasks and cocktail shakers in their show windows? It is they who lure the weak to wrong doing. Surely, a little stretching of the Volstead Act, so as to permit the confiscation of flasks in show cases, would be a simple matter. tae If the Government is to operate the coal mines, it should be possible to put Congressmen at some useful employment. sae If the food supply isn’t replenished, Austria’s head men fear the ascendancy of Bolshevist agents. If Austria has read the news from Russia, it knows that Bol- shevism, and bread are not synonymous, ase “Tt takes years of training to know how to teach beautiful movements."—.1n instructor of the dance, Of the seo muscles, for example? ae 4 Ragettd jail Sane tees the walls of whose cells adjoined a movie theater, y petitioned to be shifted because of the pipe organ next door. “Cruel and un- usual punishment” indeed! What couldn’t they have done with a movie organ, or even a movie piano, during the Spanish Inquisition! eae The heat of the star, Aldebaran, has been fixed by astronomers at 10,000 de- grees centigrade. We can readily be- lieve it, having once spent a summer night on the Pullman sleeper, Aldebaran. sae beaglthe Palen eae * sty apr, pb in Mr. Hearst's syndicate man should get promptly on the job and sell it “Abie, the Agent.” ery Consistency is a jewel. Which is why we are not surprised that the Moll Pitcher Club came out for light wines and beer. tae The eagle may be the American em- blem, but to Jersey fruit growers who re- ceived from the middlemen one cent per basket for peaches which cost the c consumer $38, the blood-sucking leech would seem more in keeping with the facts, tan If anybody near Chicago should be chilly this winter, just let him don one of Voliva’s eight-piece, moral bathing suits, and defy the icy blast. Take it from Paris, fashion experts “see a tendency” toward the return of the hoop skirt. as on the hip. When that happens, it wil! be possible to carry stuff on the hoop as well One of the big issues of to-morrow will be the right of prohibition agents to search hoop skirts without a warrant Old Doc Blue Laws meditates on the hoop skirt 22 comicbooks.com