Judge — February 1938 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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Prate I. AN Exterior View Eorror’s Stupy. By THe Way DepartMENT. BOOKISHNESS. Crematory FoR RejecTeD Mss, witHOUT STAMPS, CAULDRON SHED FOR BOILING LONG ARTICLES. INSANE ASYLUM FOR SUBSCRIBERS TO Puck, S SO many of our enterprising contemporaries are advertising the fact that they have new buildings, we can no longer conceal the fact that we too are guilty of a most flagrant degree of prosperity. It is perhaps not generally known that the proprietors of this journal have recently erected a few dozen edifices to be devoted exclusively to those connected financially or other- wise with our staff. Any words of descriptive praise of our new offices might be deemed fulsome, and with a degree of modesty which we un- assumingly though firmly pronounce becoming, we content ourselves with simply offering a few views of this new evidence of our success, taken on the spots by our artists. Plate I, with accompanying ex- planatory notes, represents the gen- eral bird’s eye view of our establish. ment. We may say here that a bird's eye is small and unable to grasp as many beauties at one swoop as the more highly endowed orb of man. kind, and that our bird has omitted many details of our magnificence. Imperfect as the picture is, however, OF THE JUDGE OFFICE. M. Opera House ror Our Dramatic Error. N. AbveRTISING DEPARTMENT. ASYLUM FOR SPRING Poets. HEARSES DIRECT TO CEMETERY EVERY HOUR. H P. Susscripers’ ENTRANCE. S. CEMETERY FOR TARDY SuBSCRIBERS. Among the omitted beauties there are included an Oubliette for the advertising man who hangs around the editorial office and talks all day long. This last helps the man to hang around, but prevents his talking. It is simply a delicate method of ours to keep his feelings from being hurt. We should otherwise like to call attention to the crowd around the subscription door, and to the unusually small number of occupants of our burial ground. As the descriptive note be- neath the picture intimates, these mortuary friends of ours were chiefly those who failed to renew and died either from melancholia or some other similar disease immediately after. In plate four is given an interior view of our office. Simply calling at- tention to the very important bulletin in the left foreground, we continue with plate two, which represents a philanthropic venture we have lately entered upon. It is a little chateau that we use for aspiring artists who want us to tell them how to draw. We take boarders here free of charge, reserv- ing the right to slide them into a we produce it without a pang. Prate II. ANNEX FoR AsPIRING Artists. dark, dank moat, of which we have 30 The Judge comicbooks.com