Judge — May 1934 — page 18: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

— — * “What'll you give “Les see ‘e Tom exhibit bands, buttons, match ers. It is born with Man to acquire. That is why he takes unto himself a wife. e men make a hobby of that, too, The urge to collect, the hobby instinct, starts in our youth, With some of us it lies dormant, in others it shows itself early. But it is there with us all, never- box covers, tokens and t theless. Look around and about you. More people are col- lecting things today than ever before. They have more spare time, more leisure hours and almost everything is collected as a hobby. The clothing you ing of Fashion. or shawls. Others vear is collected under the head- come people specialize in shoes, ha! lect stoves, horseshoes, hitchin: wooden india buttons, stock certificates and cards. They may be crazy but they get a lot t of it, And because my hobby is Hobbies, I am probably the craziest of the lot. lf you have a hobby I wish you'd write me about it If you haven't a hobby I warn you, I'm going to try to entice you into one. And swap? I'll swap almost any- thing or find a swapper for yo In fact, I'll start a swap column, and here are a few letters just to get thi started. D R Hobby Editor: You possibly remember me as the disabled veterar who wrote you some time ago of the Pennsylvania beer tax stamps. Now I sending you nother denomination. Please accept it as there are two to the set. I have several of these stamps and would like to ex- change them. I don’t want to sell any but would like to swap with some one who will let me know what stamps he will exchange for them. Cordially yours, Leonard A, Brunell one of Dear Sir: I have a dozen hobbies but the strangest one I have run across, was this week when told me of his. He collects saf largest one in the world. I have a collection of autographs of brewmasters that is most interesting. I have one of a brewmaster (Li ma 1 young colored man pins and owns the eb "5 Brewery, Bklyn.) who has been brewing since 1872 and is still going strong. Yours truly, A. W. Hutat. Dear Sir: I have 741 railroad passes issued from 1878 to 1886, *What'll you take for her? 1, they were satisfactory and the prop- erty changed hands. Then Tom traded a couple of white alleys, for three red tickets... ing, did Tom Sawyer, until he had enough tickets to get a bible. Millions of boys and girls before him, the millions of boys and girls who fo cigarette pictures, candy pictures, ice cream tops, cigar | he kept on trad- lowed him, all traded 16 comicbooks.com