Judge — March 3, 1923 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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O. Henry thought that the young man would stand stock still, drop the bun and fi self-consciously at) the broken thread on his overcoa We are a little afraid that he might behave still worse. It is entirely possible that he would call a policeman and hand over the bun in order that a chemical analysis should be made of its contents. Now, no Russia women, or others, have rushed around corners upon us. There is no top button on our overcoat, but this is merely circumstantial. It felloff. And yet we are utterly oblivicus of much adventure which goes on all The very job of getting to Brooklyn Bridge from lower Harlem of a morning should be an escapade for any sensitive person, Of course we suffer in the process, but we get no lift like that of a young queen being delivered from re when at last we break out again from below ground. Some little thrill we do get out of traveling in elevators n tall buildings, There is always that anyious. and exciting moment during which you wonder whether or not they are going to stop when you signal for them. The function of dining and hinching is not without its possibilities for adven- turous imaginations. One might amuse himself, for instance, by speculating as to just how high the pancakes would tower if the daily output were piled one on top of the other. But this moves us less than venturing into those less public restaurants in which entrance is through an iron gate and each visitor must be personally known to the proprietor or at least be able to hand on the password. “A friend of Mr. Smith's.” you must whisper bef you are permitted) to enter and buy the regular dinner. around us. Taeze was also a drug store, once, to which one might go and upon iden fying himself patient of Dr. Bell immediately re gin and whisky in profusion if only he could. pay Unfortunately this romantic 7 hecame so widespread that even the revenuers, in due time, heard about. it and another purple patch in the daily life of the New Yorker was obliterated. Which reminds us that as we speed toward the office of JupGe finishing this article on our portable typewriter a camel is passing by. We assume that he is neither wild nor about to join a caravan ie Never visit the Aquarium after drinl:- ing like a fish. Actress—As I've always said, one must develop one’s talent. Chorus Girl—Yes, indeed; I take long walks every day. to some holy city. Probably his board and keep is paid for by some motion pic- ture concern which is exhibiting “Oasis Love.” Still he is a camel and a true symbol of romance. Once we saw the elephants from the Hippodrome out for a morning stroll and taxicab: drivers honking their horns at them to get out of the way. They might have been so many auto trucks for all the passionate interest they stirred in’ any passerby. The New Yorker is curious in his sus- ceptibility to excitement. He will pause in the middle of the most important mis- sion to watch a man paint “Delicatessen” in gold leaf upon the glass of a shop front, but he will hardly turn aside for even at fleeting moment to look at camels, cle- phants, or cavaleades of Arabs. 'To him these are too distinctly the stuff of com- mercial romance. This v afternoon we have passed a man on stilts standing in the middle of Broadway and serving asa gate for the passage of a tiny auto- mobile. We do not even know what they were advertising. We saw a covered wagon drawn by oxen swing into ‘Times Square. And we passed a man who was exhibiting under a microscope the Lord's Prayer written on the head of a_ pin. To none of these did we pay any atten- tion. After all we were engaged on the much more romantic mission of going to the bank to find out whether or not we still had any moneys subject to our will and call. W Egg View News-note by Leslie Van Erery Psess Caxny, one of our deeper thinkers, announces that he is. plant- ing his garden seeds between the rows this spring in order to fool both the chickens and the weeds. Deanne Per enare tern Blindness occasionally results from sight-seeing. comicbooks.com