Judge — November 27, 1926 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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

Letters froma Boob Abroad D' an JupGe—Well. JupGr, old timer, I've been in Amsterdam, Volendam and Monnickendam now I'm in Rotterdam eating E cheese. You might say that Holland is just one dam thing after another flat as a second- hand Ford tire. and the sky with foamy clouds, like froth from a glass The country is of Budweiser, seems so low you could touch it if you stood on your toes. Holland is full of canals, wind- mills, wooden shoes. gin and foreign- I don’t believe T ever saw so many f vers in my life I took a look at the Peace Palace at The Hague yesterday. By the . their spelling over here is terri : they spell Hague, H-A-A-G, with a double A in the middle just like that. It made me think of the famous brothers I met in London, Well, this here Peace P; © was erected by some guy named Carn naygie so that all the nations of the or Car world cou'd get together on a sort of a brotherhood-of-man basis and al- That's ways be nice to each other. | what started the war. They've got a funny kind of money It takes a hundred cents to make a guilder and a guilde over here, is worth only forty cents. 1 wonder how they get that way? Anybody knows that it takes a hundred cents to make a de and a dollar is worth a hundred cents. Now how can a hundred cents be only forty cents. When a storekeeper argued with me about th I said, “Don't be sill and walked out of the place. They New Arnivat—Looks like hell, doesn’t it? ‘tkid me. Jupce. Just about the time I got to knowing how many hay pennies there were in a farthing, and how many farthings it took to make six thruppence [ left England. and now I gotta learn all over again. I went into one of those Dutch farmhouses the other day and what do you think? They kept the cows — - | in one end of the house and the hay stack in the other, which you'll he to admit is darn nice for the cows. I haven't heard one complain since I've been here. There are hundreds of warehouses here full of gin. Hoping you are the same Cook’s Beau—Mit your wages un’ mine, Helga, we could git marrit. Contentedly yours “Yah. [ cood keep on kookin’. But we'd hafta hire a kook—1 don't Rotterdam, Holland. I:now nothin’ about I:ookin’” Nate Collier comicbooks.com