Judge — March 14, 1925 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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Fit YOURSELF) for Matrimony! It is a crime to marry before you free book Right Now, 1 LIONEL STRONGFORT Dope, {YT ne seas Boon WS sesey Notice to Judge Contributors O MANUSCRIPTS will be returned unless ac- companied by stamped and addressed return envelope, and owing to the thousands of contributions sent into this office each week, it is impos- sible to enter into personal correspondence regarding them. Jupce has been swamped with KRAZY KRACKS and FUNNYBONES. So do not enclose postage as they will not be returned. As there are very many cases of duplica- tion, the first available one received will be accepted For prompt attention ad- dress manuscripts, in separate envelopes, to the following departments: Manuscripts—Literary Editor of JupcE. Krazy Kracks — Krazy Krack Editor of Jupce. Funnybones—Funnybone Editor of Jupce. Crossword Puzzles— Crossword Puzzle Edi- tor of JUDGE. 627 West 43d Street, New York City “Get plenty of partners?” “Rather. Up to my knees in boys the whole evening!” Demon Nicotine (Continued from page 18) contemplated taxicabs? Or income tax, or keyrings, or shoela or upper berths, or batteries, or liability insurance? We are born into this world naked, and the first thing we know there are about 15,000 things like collar buttons which become part of us. We live a trick life in trick houses and depend all the time on tricks, tricks, tricks. Everybody is inventing something handy. It is all so irritating. Smoking is just another trick, but it makes all the other tricks more endurable. (Even character is a trick. Char- acter is quite artificial. We weren't built to be as nice and peppy and Gaiety (Landon) prompt as character inventors would now have us. We were meant to doze on the beach and frolic in the water and knock our meals out of cocoanut trees. Character needs nicotine to make it bearable.) Still, these boys, Walsh and Illian, do make out a bad case against tobacco. Let me quot me things from their book. Here is a verse: “Fumes that will so destroy the lily Must serve our inner organs illy.” And here are a few lines from the chapter entitled “The Brutal Pare or Sullying ‘Home Sweet Home fany of our members do not believe tus when we frankly tell them that in many homes men smoke right His Worship—What is your name? Prisoner—Sparks, sir. “And your occupation?” ‘lectrician, sir!” Show (London) comicbooks.com