Judge — January 30, 1926 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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something like finality. “And | what's more unless you suddenly emulate the Great Thurston in his now famous disappearing stunt. I | shall be forced to summon the boatswain’s mate and have you heaved to the sharks.” Fred likes to be nautical. He once rode on a | ferry. “Sharks?” I questioned, seizing the opening. “Are just. exactly what I came to talk to you about. | Sharks are ever lying in wait for such as. | yourself; wealthy, handsome, in- fluential and of good family (of which I am proud to say Lam one), | only too eager to bamboozle you | out of your fortune, jewels and fair name. They will get it if I don’t. | Why let it go to perfect: strangers? | Furthermore sharks supply excellent | leather when they are not wrestling | with sparsely clad gentlemen with | daggers in moving pictures called | “Pearls of the South Seas.” This leather is used in making pin-seal wallets such ours. And speak- ing of pocket! did you. ever notice that funny green stuff that some people keep in theirs? It’s most remarkable. You can go into a store with it and © “How you do go on,” interrupted Fred. “With a little encouragement you'd) get somewhere. A lunatic asylum, for instance, would be just to give you an atiiletic scholarship. Really, kid, you ought to go on the stage. One good sock in the beezer with a time worn egg would do you good.” In the middle of all these slightly veiledinnuendoes, the telephonerang Fred answered. He worked there. “Yes, no, sure, why, gosh, gee, wait, all right, in a minute.” (Continued on the next page) getting married?” “Constantly.” —Loxvox Man. “When is your sister thinking of | | “A cuk above the ordinary” IF, LIKE MOST MEN, your taste runs to Turkish Blend cigarettes and you are secking ofte a cut above the ordinary because of the finer grades of tobacco it containg, then learn from Fatima what a whale of\a difference just a few cents make Liccetr & Myers Tosacco Co Way down south in Greenwich Village Far from Broadway’s transient swillage, In Purple Pups and Orange Pollys Dine Bohemia’s hot tomales; Naughty models, most artistic, Long haired poets, anarchistic, Carry on while p'licemen slumber In JUDGE'S Greenwich Village Number. Next Week At All Newsstands Better Than the Parisian Number! comicbooks.com