Judge — April 17, 1926 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Revenge at Last H® crept into the art department and clubbed six cartoonists into insensibility. He ran through theeditorial rooms and shot sixteen alleged humorists. He bribed the cook at an actors’ club to put poison in the soup of seven playwrights and nine come- dians. He speeded through the city in his car and tossed bombs at the homes of a dozen movie producers and magazine publishers. “And now,” he’sighed buppily he strolled back to his room, “I think I'm even. I'm quite sure my revenge is complete. Ah! Lovely evening, Mr. Jones! Glorious eve- ning.” “Who's that old duck?” asked a man standing near Jones. Mr. Jones was surprised. “You must know him! He's the sisenteminded ‘college professor “Life is like that.” “Maybe so, but I am going to knock your block off for calling it to my attention.” . = you're always reading or hearing jokes about.” Chet Johnson “LIFE IS LIKE THAT”’ by Don Herold BELIEVE I will quit being im- Life is like trying to pick up a pressed when somebody remarks double mattress with one hand. of something: “Life is like that.” TI e pretty Russian, aren't Of course it is. Stencil” ys Let stencil (Continued on page 27) ittle.” Everyday there is something new by which I am no longer impressed, and it is hard to say where I will end, but life is like that. Every time I lose some illusion I must try my best to find some new one to take its place, and maybe I will come out all right after all. Yes, yes. If [ am not mistaken, it was the Russians who first discovered that life is like that. Well, they would. Their chief industry over there is morbidity. And because they knowsomuchabout morbidity they think they know a lot about life, and when a little child kills its mother and father in their cradles, they si ife is like that Of course it is. And again it isn’t. Iam no authority on life, but Lam apt to rise up and act like one if so many other people keep on speaking so authoritatively about it. The other day I came within an of writing a list of things that life is like—awful, direful, mooky things, such a Life is like carrying a basket of eggs through the Crazy House at Coney. comicbooks.com