The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1931, Page 10

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY _ 27, 1931 TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES 1 “So it's plain to sec, Mrs. Boggs, tl those office buildings to spoil th’ hat they're deliberately putting up jis for a residence neighborhood.” ] NOW YOU TELL ONE | DENSE DOROTHY THINKS That when a fellow’s salary 1s docked it means his ship has come in. ‘That the long rakish schooners so often seen off the coast these days are America’s hic-cup defenders. That a law suit is a policeman’'s uniform. ‘That you can't buy a watch in a chain store. That the “five-day week” plan should apply to six-day bicycle races That salt mackerel comes from the great Salt lake—The Pathfinder. Not to ancient flappers: The fault in these shiny automobile paints is that they make the old bus look too much like a new one. Ripley says African savages play football with a human skull. Evi- dently they have studied European politics. There is nothing seriously wrong in a country where the soft drink and cigarette people report the best busi- ness in their history. The difference between a convic- tion and a prejudice is that you can argue about a conviction without yearning to use a brick. Wild creatures seldom look col- legiate, despite their fur coats. They have no varnish on their heads. Self-preservation is the first law of mature and doubtless man will be- ome ladylike in an effort to retain a little authority. No man really objects to smoking by women. It just makes him mad to think of those who don’t do it do- Ing it. IN THE LAP OF LUXURY What one would do with a million dollars is a moot question. If such a sum should be given me, hewever, there is one thing that I most as- suredly would do. Fine cars, you say? {Luxurious apartments? Foods of the highest quality? No. That is, these things would not be my first thoughts. I would live a very simple life; a modest country house, a car or two I would have no servants, since I be- lieve that they intrude on one's pri- vacy. In fact there would be only one real luxury that I would allow myself. | Whenever a clinker got stuck in the furnace I would move away and buy another house.—Judge. If great men don’t know things by jintuition, how come Brisbane is the only man who knows how wonderful- ly successful Bolshevism is. Scientists found evidence of ma- \laria in the mummies of ancient | Aztecs. So there's what shoock down | those temples. GENEROUS GIRL Roberta (bored)—Well, what shall jwe do this evening? Robert—Let's think hard— Roberta—No; let's do something you can do, too—Royal Arcanum | Bulletin. Howling about taxes; howling for |more roads, more schools, more cops and more service.—Americanism. | MIGHT CURE DUMB SOLONS Deaf, dumb and blind World war \Veteran is cured by falling down- | stairs. 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THERES: SOMETHING WRONG WITH HIS RIGHT GOSH, SWEETIE-WUFFLES, AF WE STAY HERE AWHILE, THINK OF ALL THE COIN WE CAN SALT AWAY FOR OUR OWN PLACELA (HEN, OU KIDS! (E YOURE GONNA EIGHT, LL BE N REFEREE! BUT IE YOURE JUST GONNA Tat — Wy, cuT Tout! asouT 2 THE GUMPS—WHAT! NO SPINACH? J 7 CHESTER - ] 7 THERE - THERE - CHESTER-1 Now “Ten, Kios! Whar ) aw, HE SAYS HIS. (Is The ARGUMENT DON'T YOU REALIZE THERE ARE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF LITTLE Boys AND GIRLS IN THIS WORLD) WHO WOULD BE GLAD ‘TO HAVE ‘THAT SPINACH ‘TO |S VERY FLATTERING OF NOU, WALT. RIGHT HIND Les? Loos LiKe IT MIGHT BE SERIOUS AN’ THEN AGAIN IT MIGHT NOT BE... ANYWAY, WELL Ou,POP, JUST SEE THOSE TWO TURTLE- Doves! HOw FATHER 1S BIGGER’N -'CAUSE HE ! worra Bx! ee, Vir PRETTY wT OP A BT NSE WT FoR Two OR TAREE TES WoT 1 PAID FOR ‘Tv NMAKE BACK SOME OF WAT SUENR 1 DROPPED WW STOCKS WELL MEBBE HIS DAD IS BIGGER THan your: Mako. (an oa. 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