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OUR COMIC SECTION Events in the Lives of Little Women BiWmrtr. w. n. p.) F I N N E y OF THE F O R C E 8j Ted O’Laughlin ©—wnu The F E A T H E R H E A D S ‘y Osborne g>—wytr Bar vez. do Be Y" AL1_'S| NEEDlM’ NEW I RoitsHT./ ^ shirts am Ol / oi'LL GiT 1 CANT GET To S TH,M J -rwe store JEST MOW Vez GOT m£T | THINK that ■There-me \ size -sixteen WOlFE ALLUS WOULD FIT Buys -TM'M-i voa— —ArtD -THAT'S FlMAU/ I'M NOT GOINS' OUT/ Tonight/ WELL— I'M NOT J GOINS' TO MISS 'THAT MOVIE—I'VE BEEN WAITINS To SEE IT— -" |F ^Oi-l <5o To 0gD BEFORE I SET BACK—SEE That The back DOOR- IS lockep— amp if i'm STILL. WORKlMfi WHEM YoJ RBTdfeM — —S/// oi WAMT A CO UPLA SHIRTS BLUE WANS "F3 'VEi BE CRRAzy/ a\ Know oi take, a 7% SOI-ZB HAT— AW ME NECK AlrtT AHV BKSG-ERaJ ME HEAD// VoU <30 AHEAD— I'VE Got This WORK To DO "TcoKlI GHT—AkJD i’m very Tired AU_ RIGHT Nod MIGHT AS WELL SLEEP HERE AS Ikl The Theatre" — I’LL wake ^ Wou LiP amp ■semc> 'Voti To PEP > SOUNDS SEASONABLE A rather old - fashioned school teacher in a poor district had been telling her class of boys about the crowns of glory they would wear when they reached Heaven. “Now. boys," she said, “can you tell me who will get the biggest crown?" “Yes, m’am,” replied one of the youngsters “ ’im what’s got the big est 'ead.” Down Where? Policeman (to motorist) — “Take it easy; didn’t you see that notice— ‘Slow Down Here?’ ” Motorist — "Yes, officer, but 1 thought it was describing your vil lage.”—Atlanta Constitution. Monitions Backet She—Is there much graft in the army? He—Oh, sure. Even the bayonets are fixed.—West Point Pointer. AFTERTHOUGHT The master of the house was hun gry at breakfast, and swallowed a good part of his bacon before he tasted it Then he began to protest violently to his wife about the flavor of the food. His wife offered no apology, but rang for the maid. "Maggie,” she inquired, serenely, “what did you do with the bacon w« poisoned for the rats?” Humorous / » QUIET, THAT’S ALL Two laborers were working on a very tall building. Suddenly the man at the top of the latter called to his mate at the bottom. “I say, Jim,” he said, “come up ’ere a minute.” “What for?” replied Jim. “Can’t you see I’m busy?” “Still, just come up and listen,” said the other. Three minutes later Jim, puffing and blowing, reached the top. “I can’t ’ear anything,” he said, after a while. “No,” said his mate. "Ain’t It quiet?”—Pearson’s London Weekly. Of Course Professor—I forgot my umbrella this morning. King Artlyir—How did you re member to forget it? Professor—Well, I missed it when I raised my hand to close it after it had stopped raining.—Boston Transcript. Remote Control A doctor attended an old lady from Scotland who had caught a severe cold. “Did your teeth chatter when you felt the chill coming over you?” asked the doctor. “I dinna ken, Doctor; they were laying on the table!” was the pleas ant reply. WISE INVESTMENT “I see Smith married Brown’s widow.” “I thought he didn’t like her.” “He didn’t. But she had a lease on his apartment.” Poor Charles “What is there about betting on horse races that is so bad for the health?” asked young Mrs. Brown. “I never heard of anything,” answered the visitor. “Didn’t you? Every time Charles makes a bet he comes home and says there’s something wrong with his system.” Not for Publication "I understand you have been hav ing your family tree looked up?” “Yes, and it cost me $1,200.” “Expensive, wasn’t it?” “Yes, but it cosVonly $200 to have it looked up. The rest was what I paid to have it hushed up.”—Stray Stories Magazine. Snow Bobby from the South was visiting his New York cousin, and saw his first snow. “Isn’t it great?" inquired his host. “Oh, I don’t know,” replied the vis itor, "it’s really nothing but popped rain.” A Diplomat Wife—John, is it true that money talks? Husband—So they say, dear. Wife—Well, I wish you’d leave m a little to talk to during the day. I get so lonely. Ont in the Woods Englishman—Wot’s that ’orrible noise? Yankee—That’s an owl. Englishman—Hi know it’s an ’.owl, but who’s ’owling?—Florida Times Union. LATEST WRINKLE “Did you and your wife have to hug the stove last night?” “No; we embraced the pipeless furnace.” Call Again Professor’s Wife—Here is the doc tor, dear. Pro- Chillwit (absent-mindedly)— Tell him I can’t see anyone today. I am too ill.—Pathfinder Magazine. Reason Husband—I sure miss the old cus pidor. Wife—You missed it before, that'c why it’s gone.—Boston Transcript Origin of the Black Maria AS EVERY criminal knows, the underworld name for a police patrol wagon is “Black Maria.” A common colloquialism in pool hall hangouts and disreputable dives is “Black Maria backed up to the joint and got him.” The name Black Maria is much older than most underworld jargon. It originated in some tough sailors’ boarding houses in Boston in the early part of the Nineteenth cen tury. In one of these, a big, strap ping, negro woman called Maria Lee, but familiarly known as "Black Maria,”- was housekeeper. She could hold her own with any man in a rough-and-tumble fight, and she was so strong and fearless that she frequently helped hard pressed policemen to subdue drunk en or obstreperous sailors and pack them off to the hoosegow. Her prow ess became so well known that whenever trouble broke out in the neighborhood it soon became the custom to call for “Black Maria.” She eventually became such a fa miliar figure at brawls and street fights that her nickname became attached to the black patrol wagon in which the officers carried the of fenders away. Tradition has it that Maria Lee finally became involved in one fight too many and got knifed in the back by a Chinese sailor. When the police department’s “Black Maria” came to call for her, the next stop it made was the morgue. The First Bathtub THE first honest - to - goodness bathtub was installed in an Am erican home less than a hundred years ago. Its proud owner was Adam Thompson of Cincinnati, Ohio, a wealthy cotton and grain dealer, who had a passion both lor cleanliness and publicity. The tub he ordered was a custom built job. It was encased in Nicarag uan mahogany and lined with sheet metal. It was seven leet long, lour leet wide, and weighed over 1,750 pounds. The water was pumped into it. On the very night the tub was installed, December 2 0, 1842, Thompson gave a large party at his home as a sort ol dedication ceremony. His guests were invited to try the bathtub, and several ol them availed themselves ol the op portunity. High lights ol the party were lully described in the local newspaper next day, and aroused a storm ol protest in the community which quickly spread throughout the coun try. Politicians and doctors were especially wrathful. The doctors thought it was unsanitary. Politi cians said in their speeches that wash tubs on the kitchen floor on Saturday nights had been good enough lor their grandfathers, and that washtubs were still good enough lor them. The Virginia legis lature even laid a $30 tax on bath tubs and increased the water rates. Despite all the opposition, bath tubs gradually became a fixture in American homes. Moving Pictures CAN you remember back to the time when every movie villain wore a black, handle-bar mustache and a silk opera hat? Those were the days when the cinema was in its inlancy, when a movie theater was called a nickelodeon, and nice people did not discuss movies in public. The first public showing ol a mo tion picture on a screen was in 1895. During the early years, the stand* ard picture length was about 1,000 leet and took ten minutes to show, because exhibitors thought that was all the audiences could stand. When D. W. Griffith put out the first two reeler, they wanted to run it in two parts, like a serial. The first film with a real plot, made in 1903, was “The Great Train Robbery,” a blood - and - thunder thriller. Acting technique was a lar cry Irom what we are accustomed to today. There were no close-ups, until Griffith introduced them to show emotional reactions on the laces ol the actors. Actors in the legitimate theater looked down upon the lowly movie stars, and relused to accept movie contracts while they could get parts in the smallest stock company. But times change, and the introduction of talking pictures about 1926 killed most ol what was left of the old theater. Inventors say that the three dimension movie is the next step. When that comes, it will probably make the talkie appear as old-fash ioned as the silent picture seems to us now. Diphtheria Ancient Disease Diphtheria is an acute infectious and communicable disease found more frequently among children than among adults. It is character* ized by the growth of a false mem brane on a mucous or abraded skin surface and is due to the presence and proliferation of certain bacilli and the toxins elaborated by them. The disease has been known since antiquity, but is has been only with in comparatively recent times that men have learned just how to com bat it witb success. Worthy of Your Pride! \/IOTHER, between you and me Sis is getting to be a little show-off. Last night when Dick called, there she sat, big as life, right in the middle of things chirp ing about the new dress you made her: how you used a remnant left over from one of your dresses, and got it finished in one after noon—she even had Dick feel the material. Well, Elsie, you can’t blame the child’s appreciating herself in a new dress. How about ourselves? Didn’t you say your jumper was the talk of the Tennis Club meet ing yesterday? And haven’t I been spending more time before the mirror since I made my new “Stylish Stout” model? I actually feel like a new person in it—imag ine me being vain at my age! Flatters Stout Figure. Oh, Mother, you’re not vain and you’re as young as any of us. You just were lucky to find a particu larly flattering style for your fig ure. That soft jabot makes you look lovely and the whole thing is so slenderizing. But only an ex pert like you could make such a dress. It isn’t being expert, Elsie, it is choosing a pattern that is deftly designed and giving full step-by step instructions on how to pro ceed. Several Blouses. I’m going to make another blouse for my jumper soon, Moth er. I always admired that white pique shirt of Dick’s, so I think I’ll try it for my blouse, since the pattern is a lot like a man’s shirt in design. The Patterns. Pattern 1229 comes in sizes 14 to 20; 32 to 42 bust. Size 16 re quires 3% yards of 39-inch ma terial for the jumper and 1% yards for the blouse. Pattern 1847 is available in sizes 36 to 52. Size 38 requires 4% yards of 39-inch material. Pattern 1882 is designed for sizes 2 to 10 years. Size 4 years re quires 1% yards of 39-inch ma terial. New Pattern Book. Send for the Barbara Bell Spring and Summer Pattern Book. Contains interesting and exclusive fashions for little children and the difficult junior age; slenderizing, well-cut patterns for the mature figure; afternoon dresses for the most particular young women and matrons and other patterns for special occasions are all to be found in the Barbara Bell Pattern Book. Send 15 cents (in coins) today for your copy. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 247 W. Forty-third street, New York, N. Y. Patterns 15 cents (in coins) each. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. FOR QUICK HEADACHE RELIEF mtit a PULL Demand and Get Genuine BAYER ASPIRIN Belittling Is Useless The foolishest thing is to belittle genius. Genius IS. DISCOVERED Way to Relieve Coughs QUICKLY ITS BY relieving both the irritated tissues of the throat and bronchial tubes. One set of ingre dients in FOLEY’S HONEY A TAR quickly relieves tickling, hacking, coughing . S . coat, and soothes irritated throat linings to keep you from coughing. 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Thus Calotabs serve the double purpose of a purgative and diuretic, both of which are needed in the treatment of colds. Calotabs are quite economical; j only twenty-five cents for the fam ily package, ten cents for the trial package. (Adv.) 1 Ki>(nl III(*in 1 Ilwtl Thvm! ADVERTISEMENTS Are Your Guides to Value I
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