Judge — August 28, 1926 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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Special London Correspondence London, England. EAR JupGE: Well, Judge, here I am in the jolly old town of Lon- don. The people over here seem to be quite patriotic as they've a statue of Lincoln or Washington on nearly every corner and a few of William Penn and Ben Franklin thrown in for good measure. I went to Piccadilly Circus to see if it was as good as Ringling’s, and i it, JupcE, they didn’t even have a lemonade stand oranything, I've heard it said that the English didn’t have any sense of humor, but when you see ’em stand- ing around Piccadilly laughin’ up their sleeves at the Ameri would you be 1 tourists ircus you'd who come there'to see the change your mind. Down in the center of town, some- thing like the Public Square in Cleveland, O., they've got a monu- ment to a fellow named Trafalgar with four lions at the base. I gu he used to be a lion tamer in Picca- filly di circus. ems like everybody over here is left-handed, as they all drive on the wrong side of the street. I can’t imagine what would happen if a JUDGE Synopsis—Mr. Blim comes home and finds that his wie returned from the country bringing a heavy coat of tan and a new cook—but which is which? right-handed New York taxi driver ever got going over here. , you know everybody over in A. “T may as well give up. Tl never be a writer.” “What's happened?” And, makes fun of flivvers, “Thad an article on Antique Furniture rejected by The Saturday Eve- ning Post.” but a flivver is a Leviathan beside some of these here miniature cars that look like animated watch fobs and sound like an alarm clock run- ning down the street. I went through Westminster Abbey the other day and all afternoon the guide led me around over the graves of dead kings and queens. He as- sured me that they had all been dead a long time so they didn’t seem to mind it. They used to bury all the poets and writers right with the kings and queens, Also visited the Tower of London with the same guide, who must have been a thousand years old. He had a memory that reached ’way back before Columbus even thought of discovering the United States. He told me all about Bloody Mary and how she buried two princes under the 7 and had them beheaded be- cause Queen Elizabeth and Henry the Eighth quarreled about Charles I's second wife on his mother’s side, who was likewise beheaded or some- thing like that. blocks and headsman’s ax to prove it. It was in this Tower that Queen Elizabeth imprisoned Sir Walter Raleigh for introducing tobacco into England after sampling English cigarettes—I didn’t blame her. Statistically yours, Nate Collier He showed us the comicbooks.com