Judge — March 8, 1930 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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JUDGING BOOKS D° you believe that if you drink | from a garden hose you may get a snake in your pumpernickel box? That an apple a day keeps the doctor away? That getting fried will kill a cold? T! warts can be removed by tying knots in a string and burying it at a crossroads by moonlight? That it is possible to take the eye out, wash it and put it back? That expectant | mamas who listen to symphony orches- tras will produce Beethovens? That typhoid comes from fish in drinking water? That oysters are an aphro- d ? If you do, Dr. Morris Fish- bein’s “Shattering Health Supersti- tions” is just the book to read till the doctor comes. The good, stout Dr. Fishbein has applied a little medi- cated Nathan & Mencken to a carload of these ancient prejudices and untan- gled them, putting you right in cach instance. We'd like to add a few he didn’t mention, to wit, that a brass key down the neck will cure a nose- bleed, that you must starve a fever, feed a cold, that Faith Healing will grow hair ona bald spot, that an old stocking around the throat will « sore throat, and that a pic pork tied under the chin in sc nel will Indian sign the mumps. Should you be the sound-as-an-apple type. the book will prove an amusing handbook to con and add to. To him who is Tired of It All in the Haunts of Men, Harvey Fergusson’s “Footloose McGarnigal” provides a pleasing armchair journey into the fastnesses of Texas and thereabouts. Curiously it follows the nickel mage zine formula in that a white-colla man heads for the wide hokum s: and sits down on God's green foot- stool to think out what puny stum- | bling animals men are after all. There is also a good deal of roasting venison | over an open fire with the b’ars as your friends. Yet there isn't a bit of Zane Greying matter to a line of it. McGarnigal wanders as a man might, reacting normally and without any red corpuscles streaming all over the place. We liked his ad- ventures around the bachelor quarters of the Forest Serv They smacked of true camp life, and the men that actually go in for the thing were there large as life. The low-down on Taos, N. M., the Greenwich Village of the Southwest, is splendid, as is the pi ture of the new Indian. The way McGarnigal handled his women is an eye-opener, at least as far as writing it down frankly is concerned. It is travel without Baedeker boredom, and the West without war whoops. By the y, read Fergusson’s “Wolf Song, too, the only honest novel ever written on the West. —Trep Suanr GILLETTE BLADES too/ Piuebear Sor it sharpens the New type blade or old makes no differ- ence to Precision Bluebeard. This new Precision Stropper, with its green leather stropping rolls and handle is as necessary as lather to a happy, speedy beard-removal. In a few seconds it brings a used blade or a fresh one to a wonderful perfec- tion of smooth, gliding keenness. The Pre n Bluebeard principle is an entirely new departure in blade stropping; it aligns the teeth of both edges of the blade in a single operation, Precision Bluebeard actually pays for itself in a few short months. Be sure to look for the green leather rolls and handle when you buy if you want to get the genuine. THNew Precision STROPPER: NEW 6io GILLETTE"Blades "~~ ~ IF BLUEBEARD HAS NOT YET REACHED YOUR DEALER ~~~ CLIP AND MAIL THIS COUPON! Beardsley & Wolcott Co., Waterbury, Conn., Bluebeard Stropper Division, My Dealer has not yet received his stock of the new Precision Bluebeard Stropper. 1 enclose $1.95. Please send me one (prepaid). I understand that in return for my trouble in mailing this coupon I shall receive a Large Tube <3o023 Shaving Cream FREE Name c veseees Dealer mee ' ' ! 1 | ' ' 4 comicbooks.com