Judge — February 16, 1924 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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In Which Walter Prichard calls George Jean a Liar! (Continued from page 20) quered. The world rolls over them and flattens them out into perfectly respect- able stock brokers and members of the Oakland Golf Club. But it is quite evident from his mother’s book that Harry Hapgood wasn’t to be flattened. He was too much of an indi- vidual. And his mother, also, was too wise a person to want to see him flat- tened. She must be rather a nice mother for a boy to have. We wish she was at the head of some schools we could men- tion. At seventeen, after he had stood school as long as he could, Harry was staked toa trip West, and had started in on his own, when the blow ne. We shall never know what the result: might have been of giving such a boy his head. Mrs. Hapgood paints this rez able and shrewd portrait of a , with a mother’s understanding, but with an artist’s vividness and strangely with- oul any sentimentality or quite pardon- able excess of personal emotion. Prob- ably for that very reason other women will not greatly care for it, and the men who ought to read it—parents and school- masters—may think it just another Selt- zer novel and pass it by. Actually it is a beautiful, true and v able book. If you, dear reader, have a son, go and buy itatonce. It will help you to understand him. “Mie Heroes or THE Puppet Stace,” | . ¢ Anderson (Harcourt, Brace & Co.) begins follows get his first experience at a puppet I certainly cannot forget mine. bored to t . Doubtless this is a ful confession, but in extenuation ay that L was nota child. Iwas own man. Not long ago there were some Italian puppets exhibited in New | York. My worthy colleague in JupGe, admitted that he was borec half hour. But I think George is a liar. I think he was bored from the start. He looked so, anyhow. I think most grown people are bored by puppets, unless they | are working the strings, in which cd they don’t have time to be bored, or are the author of the puppet play, in which | case they have all a parent's pride. [| think puppets are a survival of the child- hood of the r. and consequently a | rather silly toy for grown-ups. Nevertheless, I have read Miss Ander- son’s book with the greatest delight. . To read about puppets is a rare treat. To fancy yourself a child and watching the battle between St. ¢ and the hun- dred-stringed dragon is as pleasant as it would be painful actually to watch that battle now. And then there is Mr. Punch. Punch, of course, was not a puppet. I don’t quite know what he | was. I only know he isn’t any more. (Continued on page 27) | Inefficient modern coal mine oper- ation, G-E mine locomotives are supplanting the plodding mule Good-bye, old mule In 1892 a G-E loco- motive was placed in a large mine in the middle west. It isstill in service and has hauled more than four million tons of coal. Thousands of G-E lo- comotives are now serving mines and industrial plants. A faithful old fellow, the coal mine mule; but expensive. He was Slow, and required much attention; and his working life was short. Today a durable G-E loco- motive, with one operator, often hauls as much coal as three mules, with three driv- ers, used to haul. GENERAL ELECTRIC Diamond Hanks money on diamonds. Why Pay Full Prices Costs Nothing to See ‘lure guaranteed. B fo. weit They ail say GLOVER’S does the Business ‘plains sill 4 togay for your Lise. Bontal card will do H.CLAY GLOVER CO.,Inc. 3 ‘5317 De Roy Bid 127-29 West 24th Street Now York City comicbooks.com