Judge — October 2, 1926 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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The Sleeping Beauty ow here is a swell yarn we found at the bottom of a box of iron filings and we said right aw it to our dear public to show it to them. Once upon a time there was a king and queen named Morton Steinberg and his wife Fannie. Mor- ton and Fannie had everything they wanted, even an electric fan in the hot weather. They were both kind and wise and their subjects were fairly daffy over them. But there was one thing they lacked: the patter of baby feet. They made up their minds that if they ever had a child they would name it Shirley, even if itwasaboy. They were crazy about that name. Well, one day the king came home from work and found the little wife tatting a pair of bootees, so he tiptoes over to her and then there was a slow fade-out with blur- red sub-titles and an art decoration of a stork carrying a baby. Well, they threw a real party for Shirley’s christening. They had a 1 we owe “TALES_FOR TIRED CLUBMEN Prince Dare and the Sleeping Beauty. cornet band from the Bronx and the caterer was paid strictly in advance. The king and queen invited seven good fairies named Brodsky as god- mothers, and the good wishes they piled on Shirley, you never heard anything like it. But Morton and Fannie had forgot to send a ticket to an old fairy named Lulu Belle, which lived around the corner and the old lady was peeved. But she came any- nd right in the middle of all the predictions of good luck, she pipes up and says, “When that kid grows wa up she will cut her hand on a gin bottle and die of exposure!” So then there was a riot and everybody yelled, “Throw her out, Levine! (Levine was the caterer.) But all of a sudden another fairy raps for silence and says, “I got another wish left! The kid won't die, but will go to >for a hundred years. And then a handsome prince will get her out of the coma and she will marry him!” And right after that there was a loud noise like an airplane and all the fairies left’ for a convention in Atlantic City. Well, King Morton and Queen Fannie were determined not to let the princess pop off into a trance, so they posted a notice saying that from then on, nobody would be allowed to Arrangement in the city for suburbanites who have dinner engagements and cannot rush home to change into evening dr comicbooks.com