Judge — December 28, 1929 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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Social Sets When we were newly married, And the bouillon eame in cubes, Our friends and we had radios That boasted but three tubes. But now, since we are wealthy And the wife has a lorgnette, We're spending swanky evenings With the Ritzy ten-tube set. —Antiuen L. Lirpaans With all the new apartment houses installing electric refrig must be a lot of jon, there itors out of work. 100% Talkie There'll never be complete justice until sta © gas-tax laws are applied to ‘a Juncheon-elub and banquet speakers. | too much margin! { | “TL haven't a great deal to leave you except good advices Don't carry } | Stone Walls Do Nota Prison Make — that, lady? Am I cra Me! a con- Then there's the optimist who was Il, I should say not, I'm th’ down to his last cent, and still hadn't gotten any chewing gum, “How long have I been here, lady? Twelve long years; yes, ma‘am, twelve i | | long years. + { “But, my dear man, somehow you stand out among the others that are 114 here. Won't you please tell me how ehh | you got into this place Hh “Those are nice words, lady, the Ha first I've listened to for a long, long Te time. I am, I am proud to say, a uni- a versity graduate, But, to get back to } the beginning. I'll have to talk to you | j fast, because the guards here are a | suspicious lot, and if one of them hap- i | pens to come along and overhear some i of the things I'm going to tell you, it might prove rather embarrassing. I was the son of well-to-do parents. I was always given everything that I } could possibly want, and I think that one of the m ons I'm here in this place tod. But I got in with a certain crowd, and then, you might say, it was the same old story. I was getting into extravagant habits. dit was then that my parents objected, told me to stop wasting my time and get to work. Well, to make a long story short, one of my friends was the only son of a very famous banker. You'd know the banker's name in a minute, but I'd rather not mention names, Well, this fellow’s father had a second cousin who had an uncle on his mother’s side who was a friend of a famous lawyer. This lawyer a personal friend of the district attor- ney, and the district attorney was a friend of all the state officials, even the governor. So my friend told his father to ask his cousin to tell his mother's uncle, to say something to the lawyer, who in turn would see the dis- trict attorney, and the district attor- ney would recommend me to— What's 8 “T want a lumberman’s jacket.” comicbooks.com