Judge — September 15, 1928 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE — 1 Pity the poor-r Book Reviewer. —Porm ay Jupcetre, Aged 16 And if you don't think so, my specially if a reviewer dear, you're you are the kind of that me is! Oh, woe is me, woe is me! And woe to the next bird, or birdess, who introduces me around the merry campfires as “little Judgette—she does the book re- y'know"... and then they beg My Dear! Didn't y Blah, bl: and isn't ‘Seup, scup’ delight- fu nd, of course, you've read ‘Whim whimsies’! => And being an honest working girl I have to stand there like an animal cracker and admit I haven't read the damn books, and watch the pitying glances that come over their shocked faces, and then to make it worse, I blurt out, “But I've read ‘The Mystery of the Blue Train’ and ‘Show Girl’!” No wonder I'm never invited any- where any more! But they can’t say I never knew! I guess the only way I can reinstate myself is to join Tunney’s walking trip, but Gosh! I haven't even read “The Bridge of San Luis Rey!" arazy ! views in Judge. 1 just love, wi aS But I have read “Pig's Eyes with Tires,” or is it “Stig Pies with Fires,” or is it Pig Sties with Spires"? ... yes, that’s it! It's by I can’t think of her name, and, My Dear! It's all about a m-m- ried m-m-man and his m-m-m. tress, and its so m-m-morbid and m-m-m-melancholy, and so m-m- are I had heard se “The Greene Murde when I got a copy [took the ifternoon off so that I could finish it before dark! At 11 P.M. 1 was still poring through my Ox- ford Concise Dictionary looking up words that Philo V amazin’ detective, or 1 suppose I should say, criminologist, in S Van Dine’s story let roll from his lips!’ Ye Gods! I felt so sorry for Mr. Markham (the prosecu- ting attorney he was, I think) having to listen to that lingo! And on top of it he (Phil, the amazin’ detective) dropped all his ‘g's, too! If I'd been in that story there would have been an- other murder added to it, and it would have been the amazin’ Mis- ter Vance! as Also read “The Top Kick” and some other short stories — by Leonard Nason, and what a relief it was to get back to normal lan- guage and some nice cuss words! Yes, the girl's hopeless! Mr. Nason, you m hevrons ergeant “The Top Kick” isn’t as nod as the others but it’s mighty interestin’ (there! He's got me doin’ it!) readin’! Sage A Woman’s Side of Politics Even now, after we women have gained the suffrage, there ¢ still those among the oppo- site sex who claim that women have no right in polities, that we show a decided inability to vote intelligently, and that we really don’t know what it’s all about. é It is high time that a counter statement was made by a woman voter offset this damag propaganda against us, and I: the bobbed-haired baby that’s | coming out high-heeled to re fute it I am a Republican, and to prove that I know my politicals. Tl tell you just exactly, with mathematical precision, why [ar | a Republican, | It isn’t because my father was a Republican and his father and his father’s father before him, as far back can remember, use the Republican party is the party, always right y in the majority Neither is it because I am a Northerne tr, for I was born and raised in That Tam a staunch Republi- n, tried and true, voting al- the straight Republican 1 due to one big fact. Republican because my a Demoe —Manton I am ¢ husband i . Berss comicbooks.com