Judge — August 1935 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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

HIGH HAT Here I am in the city again and let me tell you there’s no better place in summer than Little Old New York. Except Cape Cod, the Berkshires, Lake Placid, the Adirondacks, Maine, Southampton, Montreal, Europe, Spring Lake, and all points north. But there always has to be someone to stick it out. Where would this country be if it wasn’t for the little band of bronzed, clear-eyed men like myself who carry on through dust and heat and sidewalk cafes? What I’m trying to say is, I'm still working for you whether you know it or not and have been busying myself no end col- lecting the following Hihattractive information on summer spots and tropical knickknacks. But first a few unimportant items: F YOU want to play an instructive game during your lunch hour drop into the Socony exhibit in Rockefeller Center. The walls are decorated with a map showing the countries in which motor oils are vended. Each country is not named but is con- nected with an electric button on a dashboard below, The idea is to press one of the buttons and g which country lights up. Bets can be made. You'd be surprised at your lack of geo- graphical knowledge. My favorite recent story concerns the gent who got plenty oiled and started a fight with two officers of the law. When hauled before the judge he had done it, he expli Honor, I wash sheleb: were you celebrating ?” asked His Nibs sternly. To which the stiff one replied: “Tuesday.” And here’s one for married people only. A friend of ours during an argu- ment with his wife flew ina and said: “Never mind my looks, just look at yourself. Do you think that any man would turn around to look at you any more?” The wife replied that she'd bet him five dollars per man that the first ten men who passed would do just that. “You can follow behind and watch them, too,” she added. The husband agreed and out they went on the street. As arranged the husband trailed a few feet behind and “And so, in be- with a sneer in his heart he watched half of the E. Z. Payment the first man approach his wife. 7 With amazement he saw his wife go p, : : Plan Co., | am pleased to by, the man stop, turn around and inform you that the fur- stare after her. Not only that but six niture is yours.’ other men went by at intervals and each 16 comicbooks.com