Judge — August 8, 1931 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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re The Parlor Inane asep on “Peter Thompson's Trip to New York,” which amused your Great Aunt on long afternoons under the maples, but a good deal more suggestive and sophisticated, Ruth Harding Pack’s new game called Blankety Blank” is hereby tendered for your inane attention. All you need is a copy of Ruth's book, a pencil and 1 fertilized imagination. Any num- ber can pl Each one is told to write down a prescribed list of words deftly inserted in a form printed in the book. Then the story is. read aloud and the words are fitted into their improper places, followed by loud lecherous laughter all around at least that’s the id Dog Days Te wife of a friend of mine began dropping into. the neighborhood drug-store afternoons two or three times a week for a cooling soda. On these oceasions she usually was walk- ing her police dog. The dog would accompany her into the drug-store and stand on his hind legs with his paws on the counter and lick a dish of i cream alongside his mistress. A day 1 her month’s statement from the drug-store and on it were twenty-three ice-c n items totaling $ which puzzled The lady telephoned the dru and learned that her d ing there alone practically every morning shortly after his breakfast and hanging on the counter until he was served with ice-cream. or two ago she rece her. had been Eye-Queues Ts a narrow strip of paper, say foot long and an inch wide. The paper, of course, two sides and four edges. Now fold the paper so that it will have only one edge and one side. The combined ages of Mike and Ike are 100 years. Mike is one and onc- quarter times as old as Ike was when Mike was 10 years older than Ike is today. How old is Mike? died and went to Heaven, ng led such a dissolute life on earth St. Peter was loath to admit him. But the fellow pleaded so to get in, and St. Peter, not being in such bad mood that day and wishing to give him another chance, said: “I'll let you JUDGE in permanently if you can go in among those angels there and, without ask- any questions, pick out Adam and i him to me. I'll give you ten minutes.” The chap went ‘in’ and brought back Adam in less than the time limit, never having laid eyes on Adam before. How did he do it? Last wee . 1: Smith must have said * truthful man’ be- cause if he a truthful man he would not say “I ama liar,” and if he were a liar he would not say “I am a liar,” either. This makes Jones’ tement untrue and Jones therefore ar. Since he is a consistent liar, his statement that Brown is a liar is not true and Brown must be a truth- ful man too, Brown having referred to Smith as a truthful man must be so, since Brown always tells the truth. Smith is therefore truthful, Jones a liar and Brown truthful, too. No. 2: That number i The Road to Mandalay Vixwixe myself along the Jersey Coast a recent Sun- day night I thought it'd be nice to make the trip back to New York by S. Mandalay, that old barnacled tub of love that has been plying be- tween the Battery and the Skeeter Coast for lord knows how many years and is as much an institution as the Albany Night Boat, only they have cabins on the ter. I wanted to see how things were. Well, are things ship-shape? After this you can week-end Bermuda because I have tasted (and smelt) life in the raw. from nds, the weirdest point of ion it’s ever They are! have your I started off lot to encounter. of Luna Park and ask your boat. and that isn’t it. ture Railway. touring at with-a-mallet-and-m: jiggers where I drov 500 which was marked SIS found the toy train. This train is squats in his cab and works the throttle; lit tle puffs of real sm come out of the chim- ney (they probably have a midget inside on his back blowing up a cigarette for the ef- fect), the tracks lead down the pier for about 500 yards, and there, men, we ne on the good ship S. S. Mandalay. My fellow passen- gers seemed to be the pick of — Saturds Line-Up at Police Headquarters and they were all very salty al- beit a little pickled to boot. We had an es- (Cont'd on page 27) one of those The directions are: V der the Roller Coaster, turn left at the Frozen Snow stand, and keep straight on till you get to the Skee-Ball alley Turn right there and walk down the hill to the Minia- I did as directed (de- hit-the-ball- -the-bell-ring- the ball up to SY) and 1 lulu, the engineer trips to been my I—but wait a minute, you must hear about it. no reason at all you walk into a kind tlantic For y to the alk un- _ TRUCK DRIVER} “ | SISSY! TT comicbooks.com