Judge — May 9, 1925 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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<< —— Yourtns (arriving in New York)—And to think that we've been kidded all our lives for being tins! New York's Little Joke Brooklyn Trew York is bounded and con- founded ononesideby Brooklyn. Brooklyn supplies 80 per cent. of the gags for vaudeville comedians in New York. According to New Yorkers, Brooklyn is still a virgin inhabited by — strange ts, rubber plants It’s a lie—a deliberate, malicious hie! Mong with Hoboken, Hohokus, ‘anarsie, Oshkosh and Squeedunk, Brooklyn is erroneously regarded asa funny place. Old New Yorkers tell of being lost in the wilds of Brooklyn for weeks at a stretch \ quaint idea persists that travel in certain parts of Brooklyn is accom- plished only with the aid of dog sledge and native guides. It's a lie! You see, I was born and razzed, L mean raised, in Brook- Iyn and IT reseut these slurs on our peaceful hamlet. I rise to defend the Borough's Until next Tuesday. Next Wednesday I move over the river to New York. ext Thursday I'll have some great stories to tell you about Brooklyn, the slowest, de ty staidest burg in the Union, Why, they're dead from the neck up over name,— jest, laziest, queer confined to sides to avoid being trampled. there—oh, I forget, I shouldn't talk this way until next Thursday. But, some day, most of us return to Brooklyn, whether we want tu You see, 90 per cent. of New emete: are over in Brook Arthur L. Lippmann This Ought To Be Good Good daughters ought to make good wives. Good wives ought to make good mothers. Good sons ought to make good husbands, Good husbands ought to make good salaries. New York people must soon be classed as Expresses or Locals and all slow moving be comicbooks.com