Judge — May 2, 1925 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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“Dow't say anything about comniuting to hin.” “Whye? “He had a suburban breakdown year before last.” My Suburbaphobia by Don Herold UB means under. Urbs means S ity. Therefore, people whe live in the suburbs live in the subway. This sounds insane, and it is. Ut is the fashion in’ magazine articles these days to tell everything. Well, I have) surburbaphobia—fear and dread and hatred of suburbs. Avoid the subject of suburbs when you are Don't bring it up. 1 seream. TL look sane and normal, but don’t say suburbs to me. Five years ago L moved from New York inte a beautiful little village about fifteen miles north. And for four straight years I won the Pulitzer prize for being the world’s. worst commuter. If there were trains, i ne Tf water, I yot into it, my time to commut IT struggled to om hold my little around me, might missed th there was hot It took me half the other half amily together. I laugh when I read of the hardships of arctic or tropical explor I explored a suburb. Then a year ago I moved to the heart of New York. P descended on me. I tell my story because it may help others to escape from suburban suffering. Do you look beneath the surf of the jokes in the funny papers? Last year there were 39,000 subur- Did von ever stop to figure that where there ban commuting j there must be made up in is so much smok: kes are not just people's heads. (Continued on page 30) The Gyp-sy Trail T HAPPENED this way. Robinson eame over to my « und a ing to pay you bi borrowed last summer.” He drew a roll of bills from his pocket and began to count. ‘Ten, twenty—by the way, how old are you “Thirty,” [T replied. fifty, tinued, peeling the bills from his “Forty, sixty.” he con roll, And how old is your grand m rhow, anyhow?" Seventy,” Doan pleased at his kindly interest in our family wered, secretly y he handing to pay off t And he wa money in my pocket triumphantly me the bills t to you ated, I shoved and when TE got home Twas 820 shy. dall through my desk, but I can't find the two missing te hh, that counted the money in my presence. [ve k Robinson Pin glad, tl Otherwise TE might be accusing hin unjustly. Til be in hot water if- my wife learns of this. Pm sure Pve lost $20, ALL TAKE Ying OV- ROBBERY UT - &® - ATTA-BABY SS Lig comicbooks.com