Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1928, Page 18

: LITTLE BENNY Abe Martin Says: THE CHEERFUL CHERUB BY LEE PAPE. Pop was thinking to himself and ma sed, %ms a matter Willyum, you Mook ,like a terrible tragedy, your not even ! smoking, your: face should be an inch deep in smiles with Crissmas so near and everything. Perhaps thats just it, pop sed. I feel + & sents of impending doom, even my + taist_for tobacco seems to of deserted : me, he sed. + “'Well I feel quite satisfied with my- gelf, Ive practically finished every stitch of my Crissmas shopping, ma sed. " There, wat did I tell you? pop sed. '\ orhe sky seems filled with hundreds: of evil looking berds, berds of ill omen, but hold, wait, on closer inspection I see that they are bills, he sed. Now Willyum if thats all thats worry- ing you, you have a plezzant disap- pointment in store for you, so you mite as well lite up a cigar and breethe easy, ma sed. I figured my Crissmas buying - would set us back at least a hundred - and 50 dollars from the most optimistic viewpoint, but Ive counted up wat everything is going to cost and its ony & hundred and 46 dollers and 75 cents, « she sed. Hit me on the hed with a heavy blunt insterment before I pass away with joy, i pop sed. I feel I shall never smoke agen. But wait, steddy, a sudden lite brakes over me, I reely have something to be thankful for, Im one of the luck- " fest mep in all this glad Yuletide sea- - gon, jingle bells jingle bells, he sed. Why, wat? ma sed, and pop sed, We got Gladdis married off before Crissmas and some other poor mut will haff to stagger under her Crissmas bills, he sed. Meening Harvey, and ma sed, But Willyum I must say that sounds like a low form of happiness. ‘Well then Im a low species of human- klgd. merry Crissmas jingle bells, pop . sed. And he put his feet up and smoked 2 cigars in succession looking as if he felt better insted of werse. “CAP” STUBBS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22 1928 Y[ Goop O BAD GOORY ™ WOMDERING, THAT (3 T ARt QUITE PERPLEYED, IF YOU KNOW YOU'RE FIRED WHAT I MEAN, AS TO WHICH 1S THE MOST INFORTANT IN THE You'LL GET \F e USED TO HISS. TOVIES —L0OKS 0R PERSONALITY ¢ ALL fty 80y FRIENDS YOU KNOW NHAT KACKLES 1IN ' e ! ¢ SHE ISNT So TFOR TH LOvE O PeTe! YOu CERTAINLY PICKED SOME SECRETARY FOR HE SULE ! SHES A The thought of breath PEST —— WHATS Am’ e 50 It bores me ‘most to tears. [ pal Goofy Settled the You INTERGST Mme TELL ME WHeRe T cAn GET TEN PER cenT FoR THE LOAN OF MY COIN AND T'LL Be veERY GRATEFUL T® TEN Per cent? AND BUT IT S TRUE, MUTTe T BOUGHT TEN THOUSAND PERUL SIXES, TEN THOUSAND SAMOA ISLAND FouRS, AND TEN THOUSAND THIBET FIVES: THASS AN AVERAGE Y(ELD OF FIVE PER CENTe SAFE AND CONSERVATIVE | ABSOLUTELY EEF, GUS GEEVEM SAFG, KD, JUST TOLD ME You've INVESTED YoUR ENTIRE CHUNK OF DOUGH IN BOADS: TELL ME \T_AIN'T TRUE FIVE PER CENT, AND T COULD HAVE ToLD You WHERE You CAN GET EIGHT PeR CenTs YES, €ven TEN PeR “At first I thought it wuz jest a silly infatuation, but he seems to be real se- rious an’ wants her t' learn a trade,” said Mrs, Ike Lark, t'day, while dis- cussin' her daughter’s new beau. (Copyright, 1928.) Dangers of Swimming Pool. Epidemics of ringworm in different parts of the country have been laid to the public swimming pool, but exami- nations of the suspected water seemed to vindicate the swimming pool. But it his since been determined that ring- worm was conveyed not directly through the water, but by means of the wet floor about the pool where frequenters of the pool would be likely to walk about in the bare feet. Pools that are not kept scrupulously clean are, how- ever, responsible for epidemics of ton- silitis, colds and some skin diseases. —BY EDWINA Isn’t That Just Like Old Mutt? Well—That’s Settled. NOW COMES T GREAT, PROBLEM OF TH YEAR!, YOUR. N CHRISTAASY WHAT SHALL | GET MOTHER FOR \ CAN_SEE YOU'RE GOWG YO BE A GREAT HELP— HOowW “BOuT A MOVIN' PICTURE CAMERA— (&1 ANYWAY — SO \ THINR G\T HER A AUTOMOBILE~ ST TR THET LAMP OROPS OlL ALL OVER * i o LONG EARED MEN.IT ALWANS LOOKS LIKE [l %5/ PARDON ME = MY FRIENDS AN' I ARE STARTING A LWTTLE POKER CAME IN THE 1 _SMOKER AND WE'RE SHORT ONE HAND — WOULD ANY OF You GENTS CARE To JoIN VS 2 ®R A MOTORCYWE \TH A S\DE SEAT — %l; A SAXAPHONE, . [| HEY! CUT OUT THE ¥/ BuT we'RE '/'|cARDS ! 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YOU Lt MAKE us A VisiT THEN ? FINE ! We Ly “ Look For You. & AN' HE SAID “You CAN ONEY HAVE SUPPOSIN' SANNY CLAUS WALKED UP To You AN’ SAD "C'MERE MUCH IT COSTS BUT 1T CAN ONEY BE [ GENE bv'nu:s eve! Whole In One. BOBBY LOOKS OVER DICK’S 1 PO OBUECY To GIVE. 'EM HOULDER , AN’ COPIES HIS ANSWERS ERAMINATION | [THONT MIND THAT. 50 MUCH = BOT -« D RE Ewi Tfi AT 3CHOL ) > WHY WHAT HAS HE EEN DOING, MR UMBUNNY MISS_ FLOPPY, I'M GOIN’ EV'RY_TIME You SEE MRS. LANY OMPLAIN AB.OIPTUSO AN' fon N oy ALBERTINE RANDALL At the Sewing Circle. * —-