Judge — April 6, 1929 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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News Reront K. O Baloney starts training. News Revort K. 0. Baloney can’t find good sparring partner. Up) News Reront K. O. Baloney says, “He's in perfect shape.” oke~ Nraut or tue Frowr K. 0. Baloney. JUDGE Tribulation Gloom pervaded the modest house in Northampton. Even Mrs. Coolidge’s usual cheery smile had left her countenance. And Calvin himself was more silent than ever, if possible. You could have heard a pin drop on a plush carpet. The only sound heard was that of the postman's footsteps, growing fainter and fainter in the distance. Outside flowers were blooming, the sun was shining, all the world nd g: Inside this house, ch harbored a former president of the Great Republic, there was sadness. And yet sadness is not the word. It was not t It was numbness following amazement and result- ing in dejected spirits. It was temporary, of course. It would wear off. The next mail would bring better tidings. Mrs. Coolidge sympathized with her husband, although she, perhaps, better than anyone, knew that he had brought it all upon himself. Any number of offers had come to him upon his retirement. ‘Take, for instance, that editorship of a western news- paper. It could never have hap- pened then; it never could happen to an editor. Such periods of depression are not unusual in the profession; but it was doubly shocking here be- cause it was the first time it had happened. And it was wholly unexpected, as the first time al- So, gloom pervaded the modest house in Northampton, And Cal- vin himself was more silent than ever. The cause of it all? Mr. Coolidge, as a free-lance writer, had received his first re- jection slip. —R. C. O'Brnex Cigarette Manufacturers’ Version “Where there’s smoke there's a testimonial.” They’d Have To Blink—You'd never do in the talkies; you stutter. Blank—B-but they c-c-could t-t-take mum-m-me in sl-slow m-motion, comicbooks.com