Judge — March 12, 1927 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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POPULAR MECHANICS NUMBER OF JUDGE SOME NOVEL IDEAS HELPFUL HINTS How to Get a Fish Out of a Brook Start back to land movement. Fi will join. Will leave brook. Pose ¢ gentleman farmer. Lose money. De- mand government aid, Ask fish for rent. Fish will post pone payment. Move night before first of month, Leave no address | Tell fish it should have ambition. ae Fish will be flattered. Will go abroad nai Swim English Channel. Be featured first wi on Keith Circuit. great Broadcast jaz Quant music to fish. Fish Prophecy of typical American highway in 1931, Hard on the will run amuck., Will leave home: motorist, but they only hit the high spots anyway; safety assured Sink to lowest depths. for the pedestrians Become pic- — colo player. Inform prohibition agent fish has been drinking. Agent will padlock brook. Fish left high and dry. Procure hook, line and sinker. Bait. Place in brook. —W. W. Scott ; e Building With $5,000 In (/t can be donc) Free Shure I had only $5,000, so I said to my phy architect, “Draw me a plan for an “Mat up-to-date dog kennel. Nothing fancy hey ~ —just four walls, clapboarded, a pitched roof, an entrance and a win- The Worst Is Yet to Come—— cow. Never mind about a stone foun- A loud-speaker that takes up a collection dation.” He charged me $1,000. “Be care- ful whom you get to build—it may come you well over $4,000,” was the architect’s last word. The lowest bid [ got in was $5,800. This did not in- clude the mason’s figure for a cement floor (two by four): $3,200. I de- cided to do my own wiring with an ex- “who! tension cord from my auto. The heat- ing plant was, of course, out of the er question. T had a blanket. The bad ve news now stood at $9,000. Luckily, . an uncle of mine died and helped me r- out with the missing paltry $5,000. * Sh Then there were a lot of extras not 115 called for by the specifications. I Les stole $500 from my architect and ! managed to come out even. H ” No, I do not keep a dog. The [Na \ house was for myself. This is the ix way I solved the building problem. ] | Skirts couldn’t be made any shorter, so legs had to be made longer! —Epmunp J. Kur Le 18 comicbooks.com