Judge — February 15, 1930 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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The Dope on St. Valentine Discovered by Gurney Williams with the Help of George Lichtenstein v's about time somebody eleared up out around the middle of February by a lot of people who don’t know why, so I judge Vd better check the misun- derstanding. (Italics are reminder to editor.) use they kept swain First she'd love Tom better than the rest and then she a Tom was known cracker and a c ca him * “tha doubt un- less the “love bug” hasn't gnawed at you yet. Anyhow, one evening—it was the night of February 14, to be exact— Tom called on Maude just in time to hear these fatal words spoken by Maude to her mother ups' i have a date with Dick Fairf 1a to- night; this ain't Valentine's day!" Poor Tom was stunned and drove home broken-hearted. Maude cried out as she Tom drive « was too la c she ert careful where 3 stick those p Somehow the Valentine's Da ain't round »ression, “Thi got noised nd th although breviation for lin an i. but I'm aly 's without my ge Valentine's know why. street, and } That part is p' stepping into puzz ‘ain't Valentine's Day,” murmured Maude. “There goes that Valentine card,” whispered the natives. loshes, in spite of the rly alwa © a good 5 howl of Hun v galosh ha just such emergencies. Well, as soon as this Tom Valentine got home he sat down and wrote Maude a letter in which he said he had a -erush on her and he sent it with a of flowers as a token of his reg “crush fact that I flowers” messenger boy, symbol of St. f Girls are still getting ers on that day on account of the messenger boys keep dropping them off the handle-bars and running rthem, An his was the ori- the ng that goes on ebru nd many young men are simply overcome with it on around Mande received the mingled sens immediatel flowers with ions and phoned m so sorry, ‘Tomn “Will you be my Val is thus a bit misleadin; a comparative few s F named Valentine. So in order to pr serye the proper sentiment of the pression, cach girl should use the me of her current be lin my Pocolokovit and “Will you be kind enou, to settl pur account?” Just be sure, when you send out your cards, that they properly ad- dressed, and that the stamps are affixed on the outside the en- velopes. For some rea- son or other, postoffice clerks like to cancel the stamps so nobody cancel them over again, 26 Everybody I sat Can on the piano ALERT STOREKEEPER: NATH ING HIS ‘Ps s rive HAT THE AUTOMOBILE: S RPRLE O° a AE OLD DEBATING TEAM FROM BARNYARD COLLEGE, ieidhed when pont CE ss¥ SSsy! ss 24 SESY, SASSY LITTLE SASSAFRAS SASSING A SASSY SASSABY, Ware YER ers, (ONE Cube CanegeD | EY ‘ceo TH HEADWAITE 2 “You CANT | HORN IN HERE | comicbooks.com