Judge — December 8, 1923 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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Drawn by Perry Bartow Under Cover by Chet Shafer N° OFFICIAL conference is needed at this time to fix a date for the annual adoption of the yarn-tied comfortable that fits up around the ears on a frosty morning. Now that the blackbirds have hauled tail for the Southland and the fingers of small boys in the great open spaces are all over walnut stains, it may be assumed any time. It is up to every individual to drag it from the shelf in the closet off the bathroom whenever that move seems advisable. And this can be done with the assurance that no matter how heirloomatie it is, it will be in choicest harmony with the scason’s styles. Regardless of the distinction or fame a man may collect during the early part of the year there always comes a time after the first frost when he reckons his comfortable as his greatest possible at- tainment. No matter how well he looks in soup and fish he feels considerably better under the folds of this never- maligned contrivance. It instills within him the beautiful desire, when he reaches. out a goose-pimpled arm and edges it up Team-work, over his fast-ducking dome, that he might remain forever as is. Without a qualm he would suffer his fortune to be spent on demurrage charges. Glories he would give the air and honors he would gladly relinquish if he might keep in close com- munion with his comfortable indefinitely. The comfortable is, irrefragably, man’s trucst friend. Its constaney cannot be questioned. The coal man may promise The difficulty of proposing to a fancy skater. delivery and renege. ‘The janitor may yield to his anti-stoking propensities But when the biting blasts of Boreas begin to blight the community the com fortable never flinches. It. spreads out its protecting squares over the scene in homely, but dependable sincerity. It never switches its affections unless there is some one on the other side who insi on better th fifty-fifty split. [ts fidelity is spectacular, for, without tributc it will continue to repel the weather until the buds burst forth in the spri Think not, however, that the affections of a pink-bowed comfortable go. unre- quited. Because the sensible gards it as his finest asset. He rates it above all his other possessions. He looks upon it pridefully in. the evening after he has put up the window and just befor: he turns out the light. After he gets his nee for a drive down the fairway oi dreaiiland he draws it up under his chin with a fine display of tenderness. And all that will induce him to turn it back in the frigid dawn is the odor of steaming Java and buckwheat cakes assailing his nostrils as indubitable proof that break fast is doggone near ready. man re comicbooks.com