Judge — February 13, 1932 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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Red Letter Days M’ dear Mrs. Puyster de Puyster I have your hurried note ask ing me how one ought to carry oneself during and after the Red Revolution that dear Mr. Hamilton Fish has told you is imminent in the country any day now, Well, Mrs. de Puyster, [am afraid you will have to prepare yourself for quite a shock. ‘Things, I do fear, are xoing to be rather heetic and you may have to make some rather heroic sacri- tices. In the first place, you ask how one 1 would sug- st by high-powered turbines over hig and place exists. today—where take up the life of the social refugee. Otherwise, T would ad- the following: first. as soon as you hear the Revolution rumbling up clothes with a sec- itand offer up your house to the first person you meet. at the same time declaring that Mrs. de Say that you hit her over the head with a copy of the social register after she complained burned her ears with the curling iron, ought to carry onesel hand wide seas toward some quict peaceful) monarchy—if such a could if vou stay vise the avenue, cha ond maid, rush Puyster is dead. you Mitex, how are you on nuts and bolts? Do you think you would be thle to nurse Backserew Reverse Power Lathe No, 6 as a skeleton Fordski goes by, slipping Bolt No. 765% thra Body Section At58 and catching Nut) No, 9000000001 —he- fore it gets to Mrs. Gugenstein who is working next to you? Do you think you would like Cabbage Soup and Black Bread? It would probably pull down fundamental structure. Mrs. de Puyster, and keep that horrid Cholly Knickerbocker qui yout his “Battleship when he refers to your dinner en- trances in his social chatter. But then, of course, there will be no Cholly your launching” insinuations JUDGE HIGH Knickerbocker in the United Soviet States. Naturally you will have to give up your lovely 75-room house on the Avenue. You will, in all probability, be surprised to learn that it will make about 40 nice apartments for the families of the Com- rades. But then, you never did know the pos- sibilities of the place, let alone realize its steppe- like area. In fact [have always tho those zht one of unexplored rooms way in the t ner would make an ex- cellent place to exile people to. T would sug- gest, incidentally, that you chart yourself off a Small butler’s— pantes into which you can move Parthenia, Cornelius and) Marchmont and yourself, After all, you are prob- ably attached to the house and would like to stay on, if only for sentimental reasons. »side cor- DANE » GANESH! The new regime ought to work won- He M BE RIGHFO, HOPKINS, —TELL MARIE “SEND MY RED Ne THE Dikliers SPSTTED! NQS. DE PUSIER RECEIVES UWERS COMMUNISTIC COMAWNIQUE! [VAT ders for Parthenia, The strain of so many chari ity balls, dances for the unemployed and) unem- ployed débutante part- ies is beginning to tell. She ought to be able to settle down after the Revolution as the wife of Hopkins, your. first houseman, It may entail some difficulty but you will most likely be able to carry off the mateh. Hopkins is more. the steady type, and can be / trusted to mak ‘ood husband. He never, I understand, takes a drink; he has saved his money, and would offer quite od example to some of the younger (not to mention older) men of our set. [ sup- it will be a little hard for Parthenia to live up to the standards of the lower classes, but in In the meantime I'd start insinuating myself into the good graces of Hopkins; stop routing him up in his (Page 28, please) WP LAUNCHING” pose time it will come, PERSONALLY MUDDUM, | “THINK WeSA BIT , screwy! books.com