Judge — August 28, 1926 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Snow-white and Rose-red H is a fable which goes well with a cup of hot gin in the eorner just bedtime. It seems that a widow lived in a small apartment in the woods with her two daughters named Tessie and Ella. In front of the flat there were two rose bushes with red and before white roses on them; so, for no good reason at all, the widow used to call the girls Snow-white and Rose-red. They were two of the best children that ever lived (except the writer of this narrative), and they loved each other dearly, some times. So every evening they would gather around the radiator and the two girls would lie down in front of it like it was a fireplace while the old lady read the paper to them. ‘Then they'd all have a piece of bread and jam, including the lamb and the white dove which lived there with them, although the landlord didn’t know it. wild time Anyway, one evening they were sitting around grousing about the weather when there came a ing on the door. “Quick, Snow- white, bolt the door!” said the widow. “Maybe it’s a book agent?” But who should it be but a big black bear which was feeling kind of low and hadn’t eaten for a week and was looking for some honest work. Well, they were kind of leary about him at first but he showed them a letter from his pastor proving that he was honest, so they staked him to a free feed and a blanket to cover himself “a BR So this was their idea of a seratch- Snow-white and rose-red, with. The next morning he left, but it must have created a habit because he showed up every night for the next six wee So when “Well, Home? We didn’t The bear didu’t see the point, which was spring came, he said one di girls, Lhave to go home.” asks both girls together. know you had one!” just as well; but he said, “T have to go and guard my treasures against the bad) dwarfs, who will come back from Palm Beach and probably steal all my first editions. So drop in some time.” But he forgot to leave his address. Well, some time after that, the two girls were taking a walk through the woods when one of them let out a shriek you could have heard in Canarsie and pointed at a nearby orange grove (this all happened in California). So there was a dwarf who had got his beard caught in a tree trunk while he was carving hfs initials in it. The girls went into conference and finally cut off a piece of the beard with a scissors they had brought along for trimming the trees. But the old gent was far from grateful because he said they ruined his beard and he threatened to sue them but nothing came of it. So they walked on a little ways when they heard a yell and who should it be but the dwarf who was being pulled into the water by a salmon he had just hooked. So they snipped off some more beard and again the old gentleman cursed them up and down for interfering. Anyhow, they had just gone a little ways further when they saw the dwarf struggling with an eagle who had tried to steal his beard to build a nest (Continued on page 26) If garters were worn around the neck. comicbooks.com