Judge — July 4, 1931 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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“Here's a balsam-and-pine pillow, sir—it'll make you think you're in the mountains,” 18 “Miss Ricard, take an office message to Mr. Smith.” Freely Give TT is a plea for a little more ¢ crosity, a trifle more open-hanc ness in the matter of lending rettes. As a cigarette borrower of long standing, I cannot view with equanimity the current tendency to- ward conservation among my ciga- rette-buying friends. Things have come to a pretty pass, it seems to me, when the neighbor with whom you walk to the train in the morning says he is sorry but he hasn't one, when you ask him for your customary after- breakfast cigarette; when the man in the office next to yours cannot provide you with something to smoke while you look over your mail; when the old friend with whom you have lunch fails you in the crisis and compels you to drink your coffee without the added comfort of a refreshing cigarette; and when you go home in the evening to find that your wife has just finished her package. Yet these things have been happening to me with distressing Tam tightening of cigarette credit. Busi- ness conditions, to be sure. ¢ not so favorable as they might be, and many people, including cigarette buyers, are of necessity operating on a restricted budget. But pshaw! the money. in- comicbooks.com