Judge — February 28, 1925 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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A Wonderful Age T= witnessed an obdurate Mah Jongg fan Succumb to a crossword puzzler, I've seen an experienced drinking man Reduced to a bay rum guzzler, I've cheered while treacherous miles of sea Were spanned by a blimp’s pro- | | peller, | But here’s the phenom of the cen- | tury: The Thesaurus is now a best-seller! I've listened to radio addicts get Ss 4 re Some noises they claimed were | = ane — music, | “Let's hare a little game of bridge.” I've heard a most elegant five-tube | “And add just that much to the world's total of strain and strife and suffering— set not I." Belch sounds that would render a gnu sick, Games—and Other Unnecessary Hardships Me ved ta. this-age'of mechanical | by Don Herold That once were deemed fictionary, | : But little I dreamed I would see my | ‘i - ae . boys | AN'S. greatest weakness is his ing about the last one. If we can Fight for the dictionary! | passion for making life just preserve the present enjoyable N. D. Plume | harder than it really is. antagonisms of peace, and keep on | (This is to be a sort of wholesale quibbling about reparations, and | review of all published books of continue to hold conferences and ™ rules of all gives, from 1850 to week — counter-conferences, and to disagree Funnybones ; after next. This will put me ahead each week on something on which we f 4 in one phase of my work at least. have unanimously agreed the previ- The editor of Jupce engaged me to ous week—if we can somehow sus- do book reviews. “But I don’t care tain this sort of thing for a couple of to read that many books,” I pro- (Continued on page 28) tested. “Well, don’t say anything about books in your book reviews,” —___ | he suggested.) (He got me to take the job.) An optimist is a person who takes the crank off his Ford ‘Suter pay 85 for Gach one printad . . . The recent war was a typical example of man’s tendency to make life harder than it really is. It was no more necessary for anybody to start that war than it is for me to go | out at this moment and get an ice cream soda. Come to think of it, that is not a bad idea. os 8 6 ] Will Be Back in Ten Minutes (Later.) We actually seem to Hy crave difficulties. Our chief pleasure seems to come out of annoyances. i The minute we get some problem all solved and life simmers down to a ) | quiet, restful, enjoyable state, we kick the props out from under another ton of bricks. My solution for avoiding another “Yes, I'm able to read my paper or converse with my guests since I made this world war is to keep forever quarrel- new arrangement.” a comicbooks.com