Judge — June 23, 1928 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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

' A Canoe Trip Through Paris i just happened to remember that i never told you the fairy tale about the college boys europe and if I may add it would an ideal night to sit out on the lawn with our beer and pretzels and two bits to the kidlett who can blow the most foam over the ar hedge well then a couple of fathers decided to work their sons way abroad and so the lads hooked Ist class passage because they wanted to be plebeian and dle class point of view . brought six books one for each day on the water and none of this hanging around the smoking room and ships pool and when they got to paris they cifel tower and tomb 1 mona lisa and notre dame and so each morn- ing theyd get up and go sight seeing all day and they didnt go to the ritz bar and eat pot chips and hang around the conti- nental lobby and at night they went to the opera to brush up on their french and didnt bother with pigales or zellies or montmartre and by 9:30 they were fast asleep and when they woke up_ they were right where theyd been a 9:30 and they reached for their toothbrushes and not for an eye opener and in the afternoon they took a bicycle ride through the rural country to get the rural point of view and four of them didnt sit in the bois to develop their accent and their money held out and they didnt wire home for more funds and in london they went sight secing for a few days and didnt buy a flock of s suits and eat in the cheshire cheese and rave about the roast beef at simpsons and then they said lets ride to some rural english town where its quiet and get the rural point of view and when they were in germany they didnt sce how many steins they could put a nid lets see upoleons at one launching and in rlo they steered clear of casino because they didnt gamble with their fathers money and when they got back home they returned the balance of their travelers checks to dad jump in the tub and dont forget behind the ears. —Jack Civerr Suggested equipment for um- pires to. provide a sporting touch to pop bottle hurling. Letters From a Song Writer’s Mother to Her Son By R. C. O'Briex Darling Boy: You'd be surprised to hear how glad I was to hear from you, not by letter of course. but over the radio. You are too busy writ- ing about your Mommer to write to her. All songs used to | shine, but writers pout sun- some of the song must of t sunstruck now they're about rainy Rainy days is sad enough without singir yout them. Let your umbrella on a rainy rainy day. All right. You do it, But wear a raincoat too, Don't forget. You know what it was said about the imbecile he didn't know enough to ne out of the rain, days. a smile be Suppose all he wore was a smnile. That would be like the dope he was and everybody would know for sure he was erazy and ten days’ observation would sso much wasted time. They could tell in a minute. four walls We got them sick of looking them. We complained to the landlord but he wouldn't do noth- ing. And the ceiling too is ter rible. But we are even with him, rout the struck home too. here and we are The song going to get We are going to get new wallpaper and put it on ourselves—I mean on the walls The doctor said any way Popper needs a change of scenery because people get tired of looking at the same things all the time. It’s that way with us. Popper used to get up when we was first’ married every time I came in the room; now he doesn't even look up. Your little brother Sammy who is learning to become a’ song writer so fast we are getting dis- couraged said could he use me for a model if you didn't object and I said sure he had just as much right even if he didn’t have as much talent. It's K O with slong as he don't write no ck bottoms. Black faces is as as I'l go. Come up some time for supper and even bring some friends if you got any. ourselves, Love. Moment comicbooks.com