Judge — April 21, 1928 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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New Model PocketGen The busier you are, the more you need a reli- able watch. This new model Pocket Ben is that kind —and it’s not only good- looking but sturdy— dependable. Sold everywhere for $1.50. With night-and- day dial, $2.25. Built by the makers of Big Ben and other Westclox WESTERN CLOCK COMPANY LaSalle, Illinois 4 wind-sbleld, Bov—Mother heard ‘as ‘ow you caught a burglar last night, an® she says will you please let me didn't come ‘ome last night. Judging the Shows ( Continued from page 19) Mack for his own use—he plays, need I mention the fact? hero—it must give Mr. M degree of personal glow : poor, humble critic like myself not only has never enjoyed but greatly envies. As T move about in this world, I find my valor and beauty totally lost upon the per- sons who cross my path. ‘Though iny ear is always, with a some- what tic eagerness, cocked to overhear whispered tributes to my shape and loveliness and to my muscle and winning charm, I never hear so much as a peep. What I want to hear, when I pass elegantly by, is, “Ah! There gocs the handsome and courtly Nathan!", “What a truly ma cent fellow!", “What beauty of face and form ‘I could love a oman like that!" and ‘That's Nathan! Was there ever so Greek a goc But do I hear it, or anything like it? What I I do not. lear is, ‘There's that tave a look at tim, ’cos father Passixe Siow, dirty bum!" such a mu) Well, I'm getting tired of it, that’s what; I'm getting tired of it. I want to get at least a vicarious kick by writing a pls for myself like this t has written for himself. ‘ tenth line of which Mack compels of the lesser characters to whisper in awe that Mack is the cat's. TI want to get myself up in a splendiferous costume — and stand in front of a big audience and have myself alluded to every few minutes as hot stuff, a tropi- cal lover, an Apollo, a fellow with a divil of with him, a dog with the ladies, a thing of beauty and a joy forever, the way Mack gets himself alluded to. And I won't rest until, after forty years of suppressed desire, I get my wish. r “Did you ever see comicbooks.com