Judge — October 24, 1931 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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BEAGLING CROPUET PLAYERS IN CENTRAL PARK J Beagling Is On! Brees Bros., the upturned nosed haberdashery fellers, been kind enough to send me a little leaflet: suggesting that I get myself ready for the be season, which opens soon, I ng, $ you prob- ibly didn’t know, is the sport of hunt- ing on foot behind beagles. Beagle: of course, are not things that fly | in Mobile, but dogs. Not that I'm not fond of beagling Uncle Twitheram yet at least three months of beagling 1 year or he was no good at the Hunt Balls), but I'm afraid I have to fore- go it this year, You must wear a proper beagling costar To appear behind the b in overalls or any old thi to offend the tion the I haven't the price. see, to beagle properly one les dressed would be proprieties, not to men- beagles or the prey. No woodchuck wants to be a sucker for a second-hand Moe Levy hunting. rig. And altho beagling affords the real that quire an expensive only social hunting doesn't re- a horse item in upkeep, oats and the cost of currying the price of the beagling outfit is prohibitive, at least this hard year. From head to foot these are the items ne d: A Hawkshaw black i up @ #13, a sack coat of green cloth @ 370, white gabardine knickers @ £16, special green stock- ings @ ¥ white leath ats @ 38.50, shoes with studs white JUDGE IMIG E> P27 tar % "aa remgn tN flannel shirt @ 2 ing pin @ #26, erystal sporting sleeve links @ $115, cape gloves @ $6.50, gold safety pins @ $6, sandwich box and flask in’ | hound couple @ hunting tho hook @ = ¥#0.50, breeches paste @ button guard @ $0.50. , crystal sport- case @ crop @ $28, $4.50, unbutton Propert’s white and lastly, a The sum total of this Neopolitan- ing ri omes to $370.50, and you t off how practically im- possible it is for a young inan to enter this year. He might, of course, start in by few of the beagling necessities, say like the unbutton hook, the white breeches paste and the button guard and then save up till he was able to buy another and more costly item. He might, too, borrow enough from the Morris Plan and buy the outfit plunk off the bat, altho I don’t recommend this, It would be very embarrassing were his outfit to be attached by a col- lector in the middle of ¢ with a swanky hunt club. heagling buying vod beagle Another point against beagling is that if you live in the city, as I'm going to this winter, you can get very little use out of such costume, granted you have onc. ‘There is very little game abroad within the city lim- its, aside from the squirrels and sheep in Central Park, the animals in the Bronx Park Zoo and the Little Italy. ‘These make very poor vats in ASST Y “TON LWA T= quarry, they say, altho I imagine you might get in a lot of fun tracking down the croquet players in Central rk. This being the case, about the only thing you can use the uniform for is at fancy dress parties. Contest Wit not Speakeasy Owner Popu- larity Contests? I'm always reading about how Miss Petunia This tlethwaite, of P. 1890, Wins a Free Trip to Liberia for being the most popular teacher in Astoria or how Kate Smith just manages to nose out Rudy Vallee by sixteen million votes in a contest in) which thirty-three trillion votes were cast and for which Miss Smith (Continued on page 24) Age Sos eer BateGr eH TONY ~— TONY. comicbooks.com