Judge — February 1935 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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Mythology Cleaned and Pressed Orpheus and Eurydice RPHEUS caused his lyre to sing so eautifully and mellow The tigers turned to tabbies and the hardest rocks to jello. | He married young Eurydice, and barely brushed her lips When, bitten by a rattlesnake, she handed in her chips. Orpheus sang his grief around the world of men and ladies, But all to no avail, and so he ambled down to Hades, He awed the apparitions and the demons with his lute-o, And plinked into the throne-room of Proserpine and Pluto. There he strummed his tragedy, with “Did anyone fancy improvising, bring along Till king and queen within them felt the wells of pity rising; a Judge Cross He moved the stern old Pluto—which Word Puzzle | is news by definition— Book?” And Pluto said his bride would be released on one condition: En route to upper ether, if the youth once turned around Eurydice’d be taken back and kept there underground; And in their hurried exit, near the upper earthly levels, He turned, and—swish!— was carried back by d From then his tune was mournful, for his heart was heavy-laden, Consider the grim prospect of days in And when he scorned the come-on of * ] } a lovelorn Thracian maide an open boat with nothing to do but twiddle She simply up and killed him— (which your thumbs and count the gulls! is not a bad idear * . . * To us the: ooning lads who Think of all the fun you'd be having if | o"Neare forced to herr only some foresighted soul had thought Albert G. Miller. to stow away a copy of Dumb Judge's 6th Cross Word Puzzle Book GONE. peoele, ure born: dim acquire it Take our word for it. No cruise is com- cine plete without one. And it's downright folly time at the wro to weigh anchor without first clipping the eraser ont it coupon below. wv pencil for the first end, the end with the nd holds r d _—S ee He pushes in the top of milk bottles. JUDGE, 18 East 48th St, New York, N.Y. | He squeezes shaving cream tubes Please send me __ copies of Judge's 6th Cross Word Puzzle hard. ae . Book at $1.50 a copy for which I enclose $ | He butters the outside of sandwiches. He once tried for three hou Name... | a crossword puzzle before he discovered it was a chess problem. Address... He's that way in everything. City sad State...... | But he has one thing to his credit. | He originated Intelligence Tests for Copies of Judge's 2nd, 3rd and 4th Cross Word Puzzle Books Adults, and Mental 1.Q.’s, That is, are still available at $150 each, and copies of the Sth, at $1.35. || ter sot the idea from him. comicbooks.com