Judge — October 3, 1931 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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WA LWA T= Number Please! M y good friend Ted Shane handed me a book the other day saying, “You're interested in good numbers. Here’rea few that'll give you an oppor- tunity to improve yourself.” Snceri disdainfully, I took it indifferently, hardly waiting till he was out of sight to fall to scanning it greedily in hopes of finding new beauty that would be good for the mind as well as the eyes. You can imagine my chagrin when I found it to be just a book on Numer- ology, by Flo Campbell, a mathemat- alled “Your Days Are ical mystic Numbered. But always the one to do myself some good, I thought I'd draw the veil on myself as the book enables one to do. I felt I was getting no- where vibrating to jazz bands and I ought to find out what proy ting to number, as Numerology you do, would mean to me. (In dentally, I have vibrated very agree- ubly in the past to the numbers s ind eleven, Also, I am not so | ut_ making little joe, the hard way, and eighter from decatur.) Putting the numerological works to the name “Judge, Jr.,” I find to my imazement that I not only have a Better Nature but also an Urge for the Higher Things. It seems that I am not a bottle-searred stew, roue and high-class bounder; that I do not hope to marry into the Scandals’ chorus; that my taste is not for gout-inducing wealthy drinks and foods; and that my ambition is not to avoid such irk- some things as hard work, mental thinking, instalments and mar On the other hand, Numerology s this about me:— I want “big a to handle them.” Well, don't I hope to carry on con- currently with a gal from the Follies, Scandals, Vanities, Band Wagon and Little Show? Iam cuhrazy about construction. Am I? I've got a private armchair along the rail at the Radio City airs and the power I love huge financial operations. Too truc, too true. Don't I advo- cate a 550-year moratorium on all per- sonal debts? I love to m and direct. Haven't I always wanted to be both motorman and conductor? I am gencrous, large-minded (come Mr. Modest), powerful, depend- able; have strength, poise, determina- tion; and tho I may be fond of money and display, I can be a cornerstone in the community. Well, ask any gutter about me. I’ve supported the curb for years. no} SUNIOR WRIES AgoUT WINDOWS ARSE We Way! W/-5> Lastly, I can ma artist, word-slinger, j or decorator.” Tho I don't like the last part of that crack, am I blown up and should you be proud of your little Jr.! And here’ is some numerological dope on some friends of yours and mine as I've worked it out with my lit tle book—according to their vibration- al number aspects :— George Jean Nathan wants “re- sponsibilitics, a home, steadfast love, domesticity, roots. He would make a good evangelist, minister, reformer, philosopher or professional uplifter.” “great critic, eler, milliner Just an unmarried Mencken at heart! Pare Lorentz has big qualities, is a planner, a boss, and would make « good “hotel executive, institution he of personnel, or tea-room ma Sidney Lenz would make anything from banker to steamship line owner In fact anything but a bridge fiend. As for my old blood pal Jefferson Machamer, have I big news! He, it seems, “loves ] scie’ . strange won't be the ideas of others. He bility like you and I take poison, He discards readily and holds nothing (never re membering evidently which are trumps). Loves needle beer, which he thinks every bit as good as spark ling Moselle. Would make a good trained nurse, hospital chief, welf: worker, dealer in home necessit matron, mother's helper or profes sional guardia Hmmmmm! Border News Canaptan farmer drove 44 tling Model T off the Windsor ferry not long ago and stopped at the Detroit customs build- (Continued on page 2+) comicbooks.com