Judge — July 3, 1926 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Don't take any wooden nickels from the Eskimos, Harley. To the North Pole in a Horse and Buggy by Don Herold R. AND Mrs. Hartey Nerr M will leave for the North Pole in a horse and buggy on Wednesday, accompanied by their little daughter, Gertie, and their young son, Arthur. Wh a reporter asked Mr. Neff. “In the first place, I think it will demonstrate the possibilities of the horse and buggy. If our expedition is a success it will bring the horse and buggy into the public eye and perhaps result in its adoption by private individuals as a_ pleasure vehicle. I would not be surprised to see the horse and buggy as thick on our public highways within a few years as the automobile is to-day. I think the horse and buggy has a great future.” Mr. Neff’s is by the North American Alliance of Buggy Whip Manufacturers, who will perhaps profit indirectly if his trip is a wow. Mr. and Mrs. Neff have been pre- paring for the venture for three years. Mrs. Neff has knitted 2,500 sweaters for the children and for the horse, and has baked several tons of dough- nuts. The sweaters and doughnuts have been sent ahead to supply stations along the route, as have also a few carloads of baled hay and as- sorted oats for the horse, and any number of buggy whips for the whip socket. For that matter, a large quantity of extra whip sockets have been sent ahead, for there is con- siderable wear and tear on a whip socket in a journey of this length. “It will be so fine for the children!” exclaimed Mrs. Neff. “Of course, it will mean that we will have to keep them out of school for a while, but I think travel itself is an education, don’t you? It makes more trouble, taking the children, but I keep saying to Harley that it will be worth it. We will be a little crowded in the buggy but I shall not mind holding Gertie on my lap, and Harley has fixed up a little extra seat for Arthur. I keep saying to Harley ‘Think what it would have meant to you to have seen the North Pole while you were at the impressionable age.’ ” “And I suppose the children would ie Le " Ps gk s il ley t Se iy miss you and Mr. Neff and the horse if they had to stay at home.” “Yes, that’s it exactly. Their grandmother sted on keeping them, but I said that they had grown up with Nellie (that’s the horse) and I did not want them separated from her for several years. Nellie is almost one of the family, you know. I think animals have such a good in- fluence on children, don’t you? I xpect we will see lots of trained seals and Eskimos, though I guess you wouldn’t call mos animals.” Mr. Neff spoke up. “If a horse and buggy can go to the North Pole, it can go anywhere,” he said. “That's the whole point. I love horses—and buggies. If I put this trip across it will put the horse and buggy on the map and put it there to stay. Of course, the horse and buggy is not yet a perfected conveyance, but with scientific development and improve- ment there is no reason why the horse and buggy should not be brought to a point where it will be practical for every family to have one, and it can be made fool proof, too, I maintain.” “This trip is certainly going to keep us out in the open air a lot, too. ‘That's one advantage of a horse and buggy that Mr. Neff forgot to men- i said Mr: ff. “Git up, Nellie,” said Mr. Neff. Catal S* and six are seventeen, Two and three are seven, Eight and nine are twenty-one. Four plus four, eleven. Five and eight make twenty-three, Two and two are five; This is what I find each month When the bills arrive. R. C. O’Brien North Pole styles are bound to become a fad for the ladies—and if you don’t think they'll wear them because of the climate, you don’t know the ladies! comicbooks.com