Judge — March 20, 1926 — page 20: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“T see there is a fur strike.” “Pre been on a fur strike for a long time. As long as my wife in- sists on freezing from the knees down, I’m not going to worry about her temperature from the knees up.” PRO, BUT MOSTLY CON by Don Herold ENTLEMEN prefer blondes, but take what they can get. ee 8 Galoches set the calf off pretty. * # A couple of other similes: As superfluous as a fifth Marx brother. As noncommittal as a cigarette advertisement. ee * The technique of to-day becomes the hokum of to-morrow. ‘+ * It ought to be easy for me to get alot of money; everybody gets mine easily. ee There is some talk of their making paper money smaller. This will in- crease one’s chances of losing a dollar bill in an old suit of clothes, and thus getting the start of a fortune. see America and Italy are now the two nations most notably lacking in a sense of humor. The Cathcart case is a recent instance in America, and as for Italy, instances come to our ears nearly every day, the most recent being their ruling that no passports shall be issued to Italians with performing monkeys or bears for fear they may injure Italy's pres- tige in other countries. se * Oh, Lord, spare us from the doings of our Dignity. so 8 We have always talked of England as a land with no sense of humor. They have it beyond any of us. For centuries England has got away with the greatest rascalities because she has worn a twinkle in her sleeve. It is illuminating, in a discussion of national sense of humor, to compare our so-called greatest American play- wright, the somber and sophomoric EugeneO’Neill, with England’sgreat- est playwright, George Bernard Shaw, the greatest living kidder. s * * Mississippi is passing a law pro- hibiting the teaching of evolution. It seems to me that all monumental guesses, even if mistakes, should be told about in schools as a matter of historical completeness. I would like for my daughter Doris to be told about all big human hunches, re- ligions and tangents, and allowed to take her choice. My hope would be that she would choose all. The; here—I don’t see how anybody ¢ reject any of them. se * “The dial system is a real advance in the telephone art,” says an ad of the New York Telephone Company. Is there anything left that ain't art? We have tolerated the use of the word in connection with barbering, horseshoeing, vaudeville acting, cir- cus performing and pastry making. Are we now going to have to listen to references to the trucking art, the piano-hoisting art, the building- excavating art, the baggage art, the bituminous coal mining art, and banking art? Next thing we know, somebody will be referring to life itself as an art. ee # Mail carriers are now reputed to be our most healthy class. This is perhaps because they don’t spend their vacations sitting around. “aE tire es ABSENT-MINDED P1rano Mover—Doctor, I’m worried- down feeling all over my back and shoulders! comicbooks.com