Judge — February 25, 1928 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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WOULD YOU LIKE TO EARN BIG MONEY IN YOUR SPARE TIME? ANY Holt users have made as high as $100 a week! What do you do school ? afternoons after What do you do when your wife is out at a concert? CAPITALIZE ON YOUR SPARE TIME! BUY A HOLT! Read what “Red” McGillicudy did during his spare time. “T seen your ad in the JUDGE book and went right out and bought a Holt. Since then I've increased my income from $11 a week to $10,000 a year and only work two hours a day!” YOU CAN DO THE SAME! “GET HOLT OF A HOLT!” ® OLTS [ ALLEZ-OOV-BOOM! Continued from Page Twelve came into instant favor and soon the sound of whirring pedals vied with the sound of the whirring wind-mills of the Lowlands. Where the people of Holland were accustomed to go on a two-, three- and even six-day skate (the maximum skate on which a Dutchman can be induced to go), they now went on a two, three or six-day bicycle tour What reader of “Hans Brinker” not with the account | of the extended travels per- formed by the bouers, the bulb DR. XAVIER forcers and the RUPPZKNOPE cheese chandlers of the country in the ordinary in- tercourse of com- | merce? Days and days on the ringing. steel having long been | as nothing to the ordinary Hol- lander, soon days and days over the flying wheels | wrong to were as less. eat garlic Thus it was : that in two gen- and have| erations a little Hans or a little Gretchen was born with his or her foot in the saddle, so to speak, and a na- tion of six-day bi i created. routes developed, it took a neat six days to make the grand tour of the country — start- ing at Edam, through Shie- dam, Rotterdam, Hotdam, Goydt- dam, Haarlem, Spuyten Duyvel, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, back over to the Bronx River Parkway and ending at The Hague. On pleasant days it is still more the custom than otherwise for a merry party to start out on “dijkes” over the grand tour, merely for the exercise or a little breath of fresh air (frijsh looftijk). As for the existence of the profes- 26 ALSO Is it you ever been a mother? MRS. SILAS MARNER in Next Week's Issue a native knowl- sional six-day bicycle race in Hollan? you would no more hear of it than you would of an open national chew- ing-gum contest in the United States. or an open-and-shut national frog- cating contest in France. Holland is too accustomed to six-day bicycle riding to grow excited (beit) over it With her, six-day bicycle riding is a necessity. Any Dutchman _ that cannot hold his own for six days on a bicycle, is just a Dutch- man! In_ fact, any attempt to organize a_bi- cycle contest for | money prizes would bring out the entire Dutch nation in com- petition, judges Official Tonsil Snatcher of Europe, will tell How I Got Alfonso’s 3s fachae. Adenoids and the peaceful land of a million tulips would be a veritable sham- bles. To avoid this very dis- aster, in ) ycle riding within the bor- ders of the Netherlands was declared against Dutch law (ver bootjen). It is for this reason that the next time you examine a si day bicycle race program, you READ what Mrs. Silas will find a dis- Marner has to say on tinct majority of Hollanders (mostly younger sons) entered in the ranks of the riders. Compet- ing in foreign lands, they are 57 Other Varieties (and who will of articles | not wish them the best of luck?) attempting to turn into coin of the realm (jacjk) edge and a nat- - ural ability. In- deed, their skill and power, aptitude and proficiency was acquired almost with — their mothers’ milk (milik), the mothers, in turn, acquiring the milk from the neighborhood miljkmann. For in Hol- land, even the neighborhood miljk- mann (that odd fellow) has a bicycle. comicbooks.com