Judge — July 16, 1927 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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

JUDGE Ah, These Ad Writers Shaving has always been a darned nuisance to me. It leaves my face red and raw with various sized cuts around the chin and Adam’s apple. Therefore you can imagine my joy when I read, in the advertising section of a prominent magazine, the story of an improved shaving cream. This cream, the ad explained, would tone up the pores of the skin, invigorate the whole face tissue and leave a healthy bloom. A lifetime of intensive specialized study of lather had gone into its manufacture. There was a photograph of a gentleman about to shave. His carefree smile radiated through an inch or so of billowy lather. Ah, how I envied him. This soap would increase in size a hundred times (or was it a thousand?) when a wet shaving brush was applied. A magnified cut showed how the fine bubbles got between the hairs and made them stand up while the razor slid gently across the face. If I would clip the coupon in the lower right hand corner of the advertisement and mail to their office, I would receive a sample tube free of charge. None of that for me, however. Why should I suffer for a week or so while is) \ mI me) EL RZ i | Ke iy Crarry Hussann—Well, Evelyn, I always say, “What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander,” waiting for a sample? I deter- mined to go to the drug store at once and buy the big tube that would last me a couple of months. As I passed the bathroom door “What’s this, Le Dernier Cri?” “Nope—knee plus ultra.” I paused a moment. Hereafter I would be a new man as far as shaving was concerned. Then and there I would have the pleas- ure of throwing the old tube out into my neighbor’s back yard. I grasped the tube firmly and made ready to throw. Then I took one last look at the cause of my sufferings. There was some- thing about that tube Why, | darn it all, It was the same brand I had seen advertised. | —Watrter J. Hormes | At Dawning How doth the busy garbage man Improve morn’s rosy spell?, By emptying the garbage can And banging it like hell! —Farirrax Downey Plane Foolish First Air Pilot—I hate to see women breaking into this business —but then, they’re getting into everything. “Oh, yes—aviatrix in all trades.” 7 15 comicbooks.com