Judge — November 1, 1924 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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some Armenian widow or orphan, or some one who would have been really helped by it? T must admit that the book does heights in spots. ‘The ution of the mother of a appeals to me as good a raiture as even Lytton Strachey might have done with this | neglected historical personage. In the chapter entitled “Why Didn't Some One Stop Little ‘ | powerful er au family and of Uncle Tom for tioning the whimsical death—wisl Litthe Eva—the author strikes off Little Eva's mother with this single caustic phrase: “Her mother was of a non-committal disposition and did not express herself one way or | the other.” Is not this a masterly and complete picture of Mrs. St. ( Be Then there is the paragraph at the bottom of page 1 A lot of New York women are getting alimony who don’t carn it.” One of the most amusing sketches in the book is a hasty drawing on page 56. An old lady reading a newspaper says: “I see this is | ‘Deep Breathing Week’.” Her hus- band, who is evidently stubborn to all ideas proposed by other people replies: “I won't have anything to do with it.” This strikes me as being particu- larly funny. OF course the book might be a whole lot funnier. It depends on how funny you like books. I heard some folks say recently that they were disappointed in Joe Cook—that he was not as funny as they expected him to be. Personally I thonght Joe Cook was just funny enough, and Herold says in the preface to his book that he hopes many readers. | will find it funny enough. He says | that he will be glad, on receipt of a stamped envelope for reply, to. send any disappointed purchaser a list of books that he considers lots funnier. He also apologizes for the size of the book, saying that he knows there | are lots of books larger than his but that they wer great deal more trouble for their authors and arc probably a lot more trouble to their A Recommendation Mistress—You say: you worked for the Van ‘Twillers. Can you prove | that? New Maid—Well, mum, I can show you some spoons an’ things with their in Boston Transcript American Red Cross Serves Humanity Have you a little Crossword in your home P JUDGE will meet—and solve—a burning issue of the day in its Crossword Puzzle Number Out Next Week No home should be without one