Judge — May 11, 1929 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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Mu t lecture THE SAD STATE OF THE THIMBLE MANU FACTURING INDUSTRY” » you don't have te ask him, the slightest hint being sufficient and he invited me to hear hin, He spoke hefore a serious little group of Christmas Card JUDGE thimble manufacturers to steal these dimples from thimble own ers. They left out only a few dimples each rand thimble owners didn't notice that they A streak of luck were missing. Idea Thinkers in a back reom I'm going to report his lecture * deploring “LT stand bef 3 this double-breasted suit to mince no words in Then, perhaps, you will with me... that it isn't funny, * . unit: of our industrial life If [ were to minee words, you who hear me would —undoubt edly say. ‘Oh, it's a mince meeting, iy it?) At this point Mac waits for a laugh. ‘That's what makes his waiting for langhs. Tf there are no laughs, he laughs himself... he wil! not barrassed ! ou undoubtedly re tinues, “my investis: tub Rug scandal... manufacturers colluded with and rugs were ruined throughout country. Tub owners retained me as and after but two ered that tubs were being manufactured without drains and plugs. When you go home Sat their investigator, months [ dise urday night, look in your tub. If th is a d have me to thank. “Thimble owners have recent ly retained me to investigate the Thimble Manufacturing In dustry. [ have discovered that in 1903) dimples in thimbl numbered 311. The 1 thimble hay only 127. dimples. It took twenty-six years for n in it, you 1," he con of the Bath when bathtub rug- makers and manufactured tubs with no drains in them, Tubs ran over enabled me to stumble on this thimble-dimple scandal. The wife of a friend of mine darned a pair of his sox in a April, and from then until St. Valen- tine’s Day, she darned no more of his sox She recalled that in 1903 she worked with great speed in’ the darnin When ——N she darned them suey SAY —~ in 1929, the Y A RAINDROP_ \ darning was {aot Hint ON HE slower and more K WEAD WHEN HE / tedious. She S SIXTEEN * thought it might her advanced but a phys- on ical exami proved she was as fast as ever. I questioned her closely. She told me her needle kept slipping around on the thimble. — Some times it would take four or five seconds before the head of the needle would slip into one of the thimble’s dimples. ‘That was my clue. I asked if she still had the 190% thimble. She found it on the snout of a il shaker. I counted the dimples. 311. T then counted the dimples in the 929 thimble, 127// [ then subtracted 127 dimples from 311 dimples. The first time I got 174 missing dimples. I subtracted it over and found it was 184. To verify my subtrac tion, [ added 127 dimples to 18+ dimples and it came out all right. “T then placed the matter before government authorities and they set about to discover what was being done with the missing dimples. “Where do you suppose they found them? “In Ann Pennington’s knees!" And, fortunately, Mae's lecture comicbooks.com’