Judge — January 3, 1931 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Just the Best Time By Quentin Reynolds O" Mair, here wanting to exchar that, Madam? ... You got a step-ladder for ent and you want to exchange it for a doze yrted, open-work mauve — stockir m. What could we do with a step-ladder her flounee es another one of those peopl » What's Xmas pres pair of our Puleleeze, oe. Now way, Mamie. But it gives me a chance to tell you about going out with Jack last night, and oh, Mamie, we had just the best time. And, Matic k practically proposed to me. Il, he came around to get me, and you should have seen him. He had on that red-and-green tie I him for Xmas and a new suit. He looked like a letter from home. “How do you like the burlap?” he says, modeling: the suit. “A button came off my old suit, so T threw it awa I almost passed out. “You threw the suit away?” 1 asks him, “No, dope,” he says, winking at me. “I threw the but cou Xmas present. . is such a card, Wherever we go people say ton “My, your boy friend is a scream, In fact, he is’a riot Once my father said to me, “That Jack is so funny that some day somebody will give him enough rope...” nough rope for what?” I asks. Snough rope to hang himself,” the old man says, but he was only kidding, as he likes Jack very much except he would like him better if he would get a 5 Well, [and Jack went to a party which was tossed by a gentleman friend of his na “Look—s’radio station, Joc.” ned Bill Corum, And we — clse between times, even if it was being a radio announcer, had just the best time. It seems that Mr. Corum ix a — but he says it would spoil hin, ; census taker, and he had finished taking the census and “Between census’.” he says. “you gotta keep in train he wanted to celebrate. You see, that is all he does, and — ing for the next one. Like [go around asking people they only take the census every ten years or so, and when have they a radio and how many children they have and they are through Mr. Corum has nothing to do for ten how's their old man—and things like that, ‘That all takes years. T do not see why he could not work at something — practice, but by hard work and giving up my luneh hour to study, I ahead, and soi am forging: day I hope to be the dean of census takers. Why, on one block alone in this last census 1 counted eighty people, and there was only one house on the block and that was the police station.” Never heard of eighty living in a sta- “Well, Twill admit.” this egy plant squawks. “that a lot of them was transients.” Well, Mamie, maybe 1 am crazy, but [couldn't figure this radish out at all. after all, he is giving arty, and Tam never one to look at a gift horse In fact, I am never one to have anything to do with ny kind of horses. So they Il started talking about the “Tech! Toh! Today the boss tells me I gotta find another job on account Xmas presents they they're cuttin’ down on the advertising appropriation.” (Continued on pa 5 comicbooks.com