Judge — February 28, 1925 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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— ' The Price of Propriety E social faur pas is the current i horror of horrors. Each week | | more budding romances and happy if | homes are being ruined, according to H |] the advertising columns, by crass a ignorance in the subtler conventions. Hi | Sooner than we realize the daily i | papers will be carrying paragraphs | somewhat like these: i “Susan Swishy indignantly denied | reports to-day that she was matri- i monially considering Henry Mews- lach. ‘I wouldn't be seen with a man who doesn’t know how to enter | | a ballroom,’ she added. Susan oper- | it ates riveting machine No. 4, at the | ‘an Foundries.” “To whom it may concern: It hav- | ing come to my attention that my 1 wife, Bertha Spratt, has been ob- Hh | served picking her teeth in public and shining her shoes by rubbing them | against her stockings, I will not be | responsible for any further debts con- | } il tracted oF trespasses committed by | | her—Jack Spratt.” i | \ “Convicted of murdering her fiancé, i) Rosie Rosen, when interviewed to-day H by reporters, said: ‘I murdered f Jake because he drank coffee from it the saucer. I should have been | 4 warned when I noticed that he wasn’t | iy particular about little personal things i) that men neglect.” “For wearing tan button shoes with ij a full dress suit at the annual out- ing of the Subway Guards’ Rod and i Gun Club, Max X. Press was fined } $100 to-day by Magistrate Flanagan i in Etiquette Court. criminal branch.” | Sauntering up Park avenue last } | evening with two pretty young : = a f women, Algernon Fish was observed f walking on the inside, nearer the Bospie—Hey, papa! I'll get you my sled if you want it! { buildings, leaving the two young i women on the outside toward the i | curb. Outraged by this flagrant violation of common decency a mob i of taxi-drivers soon gathered and ‘ were at the point of violence when ' the Decorum Division arrived from headquarters and beat the crowd 4 j back with drawn clubs and machine i guns. Fish was held in $50,000 bail } for a hearing to-day. The police j state he has a bad record, having } been convicted of eating with a knife, | failing to remove his hat in an i elevator and improperly introducing i The boozchound with the supersensitive scent, and trained to stand and two strangers from Des Moines iW | point in the direction of any alcoholic beverage was found absolutely useless on many time: | | any crowded thoroughfare. Arthur L, Lippmann | / — comicbooks.com