Judge — September 8, 1928 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE DOG’S LIFE LC | “Why, there's that Basset Hound drunk again! And he was the sz retest little puppy | Svupertintenvent or Famuirs—I'm sorry to have to tell you, | Milly—you'll have to give up being a Sprite. Whaling Fad Sweeps Newport Fashionables in Thrall to Fishy Art Newport, R. 1, Aug Now that the smart new diver- sion of whaling has reached its height amongst the — sporting strata, havoe has been wrecked in the ranks of the mah-jong and bridge instructors. A recent ob- server at the Bowery bread-lines reports seeing no less than White- head, Lenz, and a slant-eyed Ori- ental named John Chinaman with their coat-collars turned up and a bow! of hot steaming soup in their When asked what) had dothem to this miserable on whaling. “We place the | on whaling,” is what they are al- leged to have said. Practically everybody in our set here has taken up this new and exciting pastime of whaling. Our set, by the way, is almost entirely a love set. as will be seen from the following figures: Tanzer Cressup 6—0 6—0 6—0 6—O 6—0 checkmate But seriously, we call our set a love set because almost everybods in it married for love, that is, all except Kitty Thing, who married for money; and of course without being catty about Kitty, every- body knows she married Joc King for his mone nd nothing else. Po bri her leg yring and they hs But get ting back to whaling. Most of the whaling enthusi- asts here have formed the habit of taking a harpoon in to dinner with them and placing it besid their plate. Last season if you were to ask one of the younger set “What are you taking in to din ner?” the reply would probably have been “A polo mallet” or “A bit of old chives,” but la soeur de mon oncle est dans la jardin (that was in another land, and besides, the wench is dead). The well-dressed whaleswoman hereabouts who would be dis- tinguée has gone in for a mere suggestion of blubber at the throat (Continued on page 26) comicbooks.com