Judge — February 14, 1925 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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= | " My Friend the Genius [12 him the other day in the | i Automat. He said he only goes | i) in there on int while when a hurry. sides the coffee is good.” | k sen work- Pisin He told me he'd just come be from Italy where he | ing for three years, getting data which | = enabled him to write his famous here's no place like Rome,” for the Chamber of Commerce of that | cily. While over there he stid he had gotten started on his great plan to ; | rid the world of homely pe | ery child loses its mittens.” he said. "OL course, they lose. their teeth, too, but Pve found mittens more snited to my plan. whieh you | 3 “Are you getting anything out of that book on building your own radio set?” mall reasls see is very: simple. | “IW'ell, there are some cute hook-ups and curlycues in here that I'm going to Vhenever a homely child goes | try on my fishing tackle nest summer.” out, just tie its mittens tightly around | 3 NS its neck. You may think the pur- we . en pose is to the child. No. no, FURTHERMORE, I WON'T ray plan tae su radii “By my plan, when the mittens by Don Herold Which are tied to the child get lost Do you get it?” F THERE is anything I don’t want this book. In fact, I have been one T told him I did. I more than I don't want to of the gi est buyers of “How” “Isn't it simple?” he asked. nything else, it isto build my books and one of the worst doers of “Very simple,” is all I could say 5% own radio set. I don't know how to (Continued on page 26) Carroll tell you how glad Tam that Iam not going to build my own radio set this morning. It almost makes my morn- | ing. Life is not half bad. after all | In fact, life is so full of a number of things that we don’t have to build, that Tam sure we should all be as | happy as kings. (This may turn out to be a review | of “How to Build Your Radio Re- | ceiver,” a Popular Radio handbook, | edited by Kendall Banning and L. M. Cockaday.) o 8 There are so many nice big fac- tories all over this great country ol ours, all on their toes and. simply watering at their mouths to build things for us, that I hardly see why anybody wants to make anything at home. T don’t want to make my own = | clocks or watches, pants, overcoat, typewriter, hat, hot-water hottle, rocking-chair, electric light’ bulbs, Buick, or onion bed, so why should T want to make my own radio set? I don’t even want to do my own parlor tricks. I don’t even want to roll my own cigarettes. Still, there is a fascination about Man Jonco—Hare a care, crossword’ I started out the same way! comicbooks.com