Judge — February 8, 1930 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Sleuth Work For nearly three hours Hector Brice, one of the detectives assigned to the Rothstein case, had sat with his shoulders hunched forward and his brow furrowed in intense concentra tion. Grimly he had determined t solve the problem before him in sy of its complexity, and now, with « brier pipe clamped between his teeth, he was absorbed in considering new possibilities and discarding old ones. “I've got to solve it, that’s « the detective thought resolutel must be a solution to this puz I'm going to find it if it takes the rest of my Nothing Think, an, think!" he himself. Twenty minutes passed slowly by— another twenty —and_ still Hector Brice sat immersed in thought, ger pling with the problem. But suddenly his gray eyes glinted like steel. The pipe fell from between Brice’s teeth and a smile crept over his countenance. I've got it,” he barked exultantly, “T've got it! They can si at us de- tectives all they want, but at last I've solved the whole thing. For a lor while it fooled me, but now . . Triumphantly Hector Brice pen- ciled the word nu” in’ the cross- word puzzle before him, then rose from his chair with a sigh of satisfa tion, —Orsonxn Ronninxs 1 stop. me. commanded Naturalists recently claimed that the ostrich does not bury its head in the sand. The story, it seems, vented by evolutionists trying to find some animal predecessor for the affee- tionate couples who taxi down our brightly lighted city streets. JUDGE More Reasons Why I Gave Up Bridge “Gosh, can't you even shuffle? Why 1 not try putting them in a dishpan stirring ‘em with a spoon?” ... “Be fore we play the next hand, folks, I've got a trick to show you. Choose a card, . oT guess it’s really my art I supposed everyoue rd of an informative double.” Let's have just one more rubber. > ought to go home as early two o'clock.” 5... “You should — be yall the t old man—ha, ha, et that bid was * 2... "Did you read about the woman out West who shot her husband when he made just Le "AS Twas say- ing, in a case like this the experts all playing for a Let’s see, penny a point, weren't w then, that means you owe us Child Psychology When I entered Simpson's living- room, [beheld him prancing about be- fore his small son. Simpson is some- t of a fanatic on the subject of He child and juvenile. behavior- ists. So naturally I was surprised to notice his actions, “How would baby like a great, big, wonderful teddy bear?” asked Simp- son ay he jumped up and down on the rug. “And how would papa’s darling like to | a wonderful set of real clectric trains that go around on a big, hig tra And would daddy’s little pal like to have a set of lead soldiers that march up and down? And what would baby say to a fine set of stone blocks, so many that they couldn't all find room on this carpet 15 “Look here, Simpson,” I said. “I may not know much about Child Study and Juvenile Behaviorism, but I don't think it does the kid any good to whet hiy appetite for all these things and then to deprive him of them.” “Shows your ignorance of Child Psychology,” said Simpson, “This is baby’s most important daily period his morning lesson in Sales Resist ance.” —Anriur L, Liveaaxs There’s one thing that they sell, short) any cant more —and that, of is the new-style skirt. course, And some of the juries recently have rend: 1 decisions that would put a National shame. League umpire to Then, too, some of the seen recently haven't bec on the other hand, they haven't been fought either, We've been thinking it over, and have decided that there ought to be « tel in Wall Street, and we've y named it “Inn Arrears.” And, furthermore, since the Wall Street br chorus girl has yone back on the stage. <, many Listen, Mr. Grover Whalen, would you mind coming up to our boarding house some morning and making a few regulations about the bathroom? There hasn't been much news from Washington lately. Ah, well, sleeping it off, no doubt. Sh SSIES i Sates LD comicbooks.com