The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 28, 1931, Page 12

—$——— [ SIDEGLANCES - - - By George Clark NI - A SHORT TIME AGO = MR. TOM CARR~ WHOM I HAD- AND STILL HAVE THE GREATEST CONFIDENCE JN ~ ADVISED ME TO INVEST EVERY PENNY ! COULD SCRAPE UP INNIS STOCK — | PAWNED MY LAST THE GUMPS—PAID IN FULL -WELL.~ | BORROWED TNAT MONEY ON LIFE INSURANCE = WHIM MADE TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLS WORTH OF sTocK ‘THAT ) OWNED= AND SINCE THEN~ | GUESS YOU KNOW WHAT MAS NAPPENED = YHE STOCK. 18 NOW WORTN TWENTY-EIVE TIMES ITS, VALUE =, YOU HOLD A NOTE SIGNED BY ME TO PAY YOU A LARGE Sum AT 400% INTEREST- 1 NAVE GIVEN YOU THE STOCK= ALL THAT | HAVE IN ‘THE WORLD = ‘AND IN RETURN YOU HAVE | {Hauel AND NOW WE ARE SQUARE — | \t AND. BOUGNT TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS EIST OF STOCK — NE ADVISED. ME TO EXACTLY- BOY MORE= | CAME TO YOU AND TRIED TO / THOSE ARE BORROW ANOTHER TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS- AND. WHA q TOLD ME TO GET OUT OF YOUR OFFICE- soo AND STAY OUT! GIVEN ME THE NOTE = ‘TO BE PAID SIX MONTHS AFTER MY MARRIAGE= A RECEIPT _IN_ FULL VAM IN LOVE WITH TOM CARR FoR ALL YWILL GIVE YOU ALL OF day STOCK WHICH. V HAVE MERE = VALUED AT $500,000.% FOR TNAT NOTE= WILL You ACCEPT THE STOCK AND GIVE ME TNE NOTE OR WILL YOU TAKE A CMANCE g ON MY MARRYING /J THAT'S 3450, JUST ABOUT A THOUSAND MORE THAN THE MAN WANTS FOR THE WHOLE PLACE TO START WITH. GOLLY THAT CARPENTER FIGURES 300 DOLLARS FOR NEw SHINGLES AND SO FOR FIXING THE CHIMNEN. THEN HE WANTS OO FOR FLOOR JOISTS, FLOORS, WINDOWS, CLOSETS AND ALTERATIONS, ETC. AND 600 FOR A BATHROOM. THEN (50 DOLLARS FOR A O0OCK, 600 FOR A WATER SYSTEM AND 360 FOR A ELECTRIC LIGAT OUTFIT — BON, A THEN MOUNT UP! A SUMMEI COMES HIGH BUT IF YOURE GOING To GVE YOUR WIFE A PRESENT OU CANT Be _/.£ PENURIOUS. - REG U S$ Pi © 1931 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. “Um terribly anxious to go abroad. Ive heard so much about the lobster salads they serve on the ships.” | NOW YOU TELL ONE A LUCKY BREAK On that undersea trip Sir Hubert Wilkins’ job will be to keep the sub- marine from cruising so high it strikes the bottom of an iceberg or so low that it hits Warner Pictures or Continefital Shares.—Judge. | You don’t hear many jokes about y the farmers nowadays. Conditions} : YY Y if y rp Fre U.S. Pu OF, Covi have been so bad. that they've had to! “ if =f y The Chicago Tribune. lay off their hired men.—Judge | “You said you were going to get married last year, but you didn’t.” And harmony in the Democratic; , “No. I was forced into the ranks of A CROOK SNEAKED IN party will come not when they get together, but if they're kept apart— Judge. CURRENT ITEM “In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candlelight.” In summer the same darned way, ‘The bill is still too high to pay. —dJudge. ‘Traffic is so heavy these days and hights the girl who walks home from| an automobile ride gets home before the fellow does.—Judge. And usually when we go out of a Bunday afternoon for a bit of fresh air we get it from a traffic cop.— dudge. People who know nothing are hap- fplest, says a philosopher. Especially ‘when they're speaking over the radio. —dJudge. the unemployed and couldn't make “Well, you can’t expect to get all the breaks.”"—Hummel, Hamburg. NO, IT’S NEVER Doesn't it ever rain in this coun- try?” “Rain? Why, there's frogs in this; town over five years old that hain’t learned to swim yet."”—Tit-Bits. THE LAST WORD | Brown: You said you always had/ the last word with your wife, but I notice she orders you about. i Roberts: I do have the last word. Didn't you hear me say ‘all right’?”— Answers. MAN OF HIS WORD “I'm sorry,” said the tenant, “but I! can’t pay you this week.” l “But you said that last week, andj several weeks before that,” snapped the landlord. Coolidge and Alfonso are prominent ex-rulers. but Cool! different. He did not choose ‘o run. | —dJudge. ' both | Is) We don't want to criticize those in- vestigators who have been annoying Mayor Walker, but just the samme it's no way to treat a visitor —Judge. Due to the prevalence of hold-ups, physicians answering nicht calls in Chicago will be permitted to carry revolvers. Physician, heel thyself— Judge. “Yes, and didn’t I keep my word?” replied the tenant blandly.—Answers. Dr. Shapley, Harvard astronomer, | we read, spends his spare, time studying ants. Life is just one big picnic to some people.—Judge. IF ANY | And the greatest servant problem | is keeping them out of your good spirits.—Judge. | Well, it looks as though the meek) have inherited the heayweight hoxing| racket.—Judge. | Daily Cross-word Puzzle | ACROSS 1. Of the vope N Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle | Sun Mufied § Migrate . Bod |. Public store. house . First garden . Kind of bale sain ‘opy Title of re- spect Italian capita) xisted ‘ype measure ‘odder pit e vse fodder (talian river |. Genus of the oat Keep from honeybee 41. Silkworm L. Short for a kind of dog unny bin” Stupid vere . 1, 80n 5. Kind of tree Son of Judah FRIENDS Who Took thi Milk? BUDDIES It Suits Fine! WERE GOING To Drink YOUR WIFE'S KITCHEN AN’ A FELLOW.IS ON HIS. MAYBE L BETTER FRECKLES AND HIS WAS MEANT For ME... THERE'S SLEEPING ‘WAY To EUROPE Now, » WITH THE RUBY...AND ¢ STOP AND Have THE ‘TURN IN... TOMORROW NIGHT AT THIS TIME HAD WIS MILK STOLEN A SECOND TAME —~ WHILE SUG-HE REALIZED HIS MISTAKE AND, DASHING To THE HOOSE GOW), HE ec} WITHDREW CHARGES) AGAINST CHICK - BUT “THERE'S MoRE BACK OF The MISSING MILK “THAN APPEARS ¥. ON “THE SURFACE. boi WHO DID TAKE HAVEN'T THey FOUND TuaT FELLOW yer? SURPRISED “To SEE You ouT WHY, DID Mom’ HINE BN THING OML ? NOT ME! NOT WHEN. Xo DO WI wo (eee BInieKe GONNA GIMME _OLD GIPPS Bel To coLcect Oo Wo! HES GOT FOUR OR FIVE OF Em Now! (0 WRITE A NOTE TO HIM— Meape THATLE MAKE Gu22 WROTE To mister 41M come AcRoss! GOUN YM soRRY iT AAD ThAPPEN | tr MUST ‘UE SEEN AWFUL EMBARRASSIN’ FOR Boorse | SHES A CHAMP, THAT KID -- AN! YM sust A PONK ' 1 ALWAYS DO TH’ WRONG THING AT SUET TH’ WRONG Tr: EES MY PREENILEGE YO REPRESENT COUNT OACQUES LA TIFF - AWD TO MAWE ALL DECESSARY ARRANGE- MENTS -ere- PLENTY! BUT, | Bur 1 GE air-tHe As usuar, 5 CREDIT To LINER j DId_ AVL THE HANK , FOR GETTING ° DIRTY WORKS ME OUT WELL. HE DID WT! Your MOTHER AND— A NOTE FROM NY Boss, MR. Grep! on, ‘es! WANTS Me To SEND HIM THE AMOUNT OF OY 810,642 CERTAINLY — COUNT SACQUES LA TIFF YEG THE GENTEELMAN You EENSUTED TREES MORNING! WE DEMANDS SATEESFACTION, BIR --- AND WICKES THE PLEASURE OF MEETING YOU IW AN AFEAR OF HONOUR eee