Judge — October 9, 1926 — page 29: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“Being shot at sunrise is a great thing if you can afford it.’ SUNNYBOVES, a / \ ite poe pays 85 for each one ae) | A society woman has a lizard which sits on her shoulder. Others ha ve trained their pet reptiles to walk by their sides and carry parcels. —Eve Fatt \ lady was visiting the servants’ registry office. for my country house,” the manageress. to her assistant. on our books who would like spend a ¢ she enquired. rer or so in the country? —Tattler “LT want a good cook she informed The latter turned “Have we anyone to Pulborough Council have decided todo without street lighting. Belated revelers will now have to rely on the light of one of the moons. —Humorist tot The bank of England recently ceived a shipment of £400,000 sovereigns from South Africa. trouble is that America may get hear about this. re- in The —London Opinion Pd Fond Father (to daughter)— I am happy to Timson has asked for your hand. Dear, announce that young Daughter—But, papa, I don’t want to leave mamma. “Don’t let that bother you. can take her with you.” You —Answers SIH A lady, going away for the day, locked everything up carefully, and for the grocer’s benefit left a card on the back door. ; “All out. | it read. Don't leave anything,” On her return she found her house ransacked and all her choicest. pos- To the card on was added: ‘Thanks. ) | haven’t left much.” sessions gone. door the We | —Boston Transcript | DISZY WELLS They called him Rip be- cause he’s always on a tear. Judge pays $5 for cach one printed However storms may interfere with travel, telephone operators are at their posts An Unfailing Service Americans rely upon quick commu- nication and prove it by using the telephone seventy million times every twenty-four hours. In each case some one person of a hundred mil- lion has been called for by some other person and connected with him by means of telephone wires. So commonly used is the telephone that it has come to be taken for granted. Like the air they breathe, people do not think of it except when in rare instances they feel the lack of it. Imagine the seventeen million American telephones dumb, and the wires dead. Many of the every-day activities would be paralyzed. Mails, telegraphs and every means of com- munication and transportation would be overburdened. The streets and elevators would be crowded with messengers. Newspaper men, doc- tors, policemen, firemen ness men would find th ing conditions more those fifty and_ busi- selves fac- ficult than the before telephone had been invented. years ago, To prevent such a catastrophe is the daily work of three hundred thousand telephone men and women. To maintain an uninterrupted and dependable telephone service is the purpose of the Bell System and to that purpose all its energy and resources are devoted. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH ComPANy AND AssocIATED ComPaNIEs IN ITS SEMI-CENTENNIAL YEAR THE BELL SYSTEM LOOKS FOR- WARD TO CONTINUED PROGRESS IN TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION ANOTHER BIG BURLESQUE Week after next on oi al! ‘Newsstands will appear THE VANITY FAIR NUMBER OF JUDGE All the Art and Literature that’s fit to print and only 15 cents. What could be Fairer than that? comicbooks.com