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

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Property ot “> Pabiie Library Little Travels Switzerland—The Vertical Country LrHoUGH Switzerland is one of the smallest countries in Europe it is about the tallest. Flattened out it would spread over most of Europe. Our stay was brief, and we had time to climb only one Alp. We were interested in the story of how William Tell had shot the apple off his son’s head without disturbing the dandruff. It seems that the tyrant, Gessler, was sore at William because one of the cclebrated archer’s St. Bernard dogs once had sniffed rather contemptuously at his cheese factory. So he asked Peters, the milk chocolate man, what he ought to do about it and he suggested the apple stunt, as he figured it would get alot of publicity. Itdid, too. Later, Tell had an opera written about him and toured in vaudeville with hisactac- companied by a troupe of bell ringers. “What a beautiful Swiss move- ment!” exclaimed our guide as an avalanche descended upon us. As we crawled out of the débris one of our party remarked that he had heard a lot about Alpine goats and that we must be them. Berne is situated on the Aar River, alphabetically the first river in the world. Berne also contains the famous old tower clock. When this clock is right, no clock can beat it for telling time. We heard a lot about the mountain passes, but nobody gave us any. We had to pay for everything. Wherever we went the hotel keepers greeted us with open hands. Robert Cyril O’Brien AND THAT AL AINT GOT AL CAN GET-ALS THE SHERIFF SO MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME+ NIDDLEVILLE 1? A NOTED HOT-BED OF MORTGAGES «IT 19 ALSO THE. HOME OF THE. FAMOUS JOHN DOE, HIMSELF- FOR YEARS THE PLEASURE-LOVING TOWNFOLK OF THIS SMOULDERING Lives TOTHE. CRED SUMBING. COMING TO EADTH Why not tell more on those guide boards? — Hello, folks! This is J. J. R. broadcasting direct from the High Hat Roof. The orchestra is now playing “The Farmer Took Away Another Load of Hay,” or something like that. It sounds to me just like “It Ain’t Goin’ to Rain No Mo,’ but it seems to be taking on no end with the crowd. The famous “Rhap- sody in Blue” has been butchered into fox trot time, but, boy, it’s a dance! What the girls will wear! Now they are decorating their ankles with Army identification disks pur- loined from their veteran boy friends. They are worn under the stocking and really it’s awfully hard to read the names! oe “Week-End” by Charles Brackett. One of the brightest books brought out in months. Here’s a bit from it. The writer dreams he’s back in the Eighteenth Century—broke. Suddenly remembers he knows most of the Nineteenth Century Classics by heart. Looks up old Doctor Johnson and quotes him Swinburne, Browning, Tennyson, even Amy Lowell! As his own stuff. The old boy tells him it’s terrible! fp The Six Best “Steppers”: “The Farmer Took Away, Etc.” “Sonia.” “Tf You Bring Suzie.” “April Fool.” “On With the Dance.” “What a World This Would Be.” comicbooks.com