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Home and Comic’! Page of PICTURE PUZZLES mrt ts VaE vecine Worth * ‘WHAT CAPITAL CITY 18 THIS? ONE FIFTH OF TWO THIRDS OF a tftplane model to the brilliant young expert last spring. Mr. Needham the inventor, puazied. judging trom this plane model t al ine model, that s submarine de- signed by you would fly."—Washbing- ACT A wren you say thie is a funny world, don't overlook the fact that you also are in it and of it. A RECORD Of a tine of assorted chatter that went up and down our/dumbwaiter shaft about 6 o'clock P. M. floor buzzer busses: Duss!! buss!!!) Sbrill Feminine Voice—Well’ Youthful Mascyline Volce—Grocer! 8. F. V.—Well, it's about time you snowed up. Did you think I wanted those things for breakfast? This is fine time for you to be coming— when I'm all ready to sit down to the dinner table! ¥. M. V.—There wuz so many or- ders, ma'am, I hadda make three trips. They's a dollar-elghty collect! 8, F. V.—No, you don’t young man! You can't work THAT game on ME! Those things were CHARGED and there's only ninety-eight cents worth. ¥. M. V.—Borry, ma'am, but th’ boss eaid COLLECT. He said not to let you have no more without your payin’ Busa!l cash. 8, F. V.—The idea! Why, I pay my bill every week, You take those things right back and don't you stand there libelling me for the whole apart- ments to hear! ¥Y M. V.—Ain’t your name “Short, Apartment 30?” 3 F. V.—-No, my name “BHORT"—it's LONG. ¥. M. V—Weil, ain't this Apart- ain't ment 30, No, 8808 Umpty-thira Street?” 8, F. V.—This is NOT. No, 8808 is the ts mext door! u ‘Third-floor buzzer buzzes: BUZZ- ) Nervous Feminine Volce—Who is it, Whoisit? sh oa ; musouline voice—I-yu N.¥.Vrdoet Not to-night. Come 4m the morning, 7 5 Wretntes eoatratto voice—Ice man! $ WD By Hazen Conklin Coprright, 1915, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York HROUGH THE PoRT HOLE. episode XEXXKKIE “'S°MATTER, “LOVE DREAMS” “Ov RavED THE MIGXT \Nou PROPOSED JD Me! CURRENTS WORLD, T hi ursday, December 9. REPT? RIVE ee POP?” FLOOEY AND AXEL—Acxel Is Now Wholly Converted to “the Cause!” bod al os ao ian OE rence? Peace 2? WHo VANTS PEACE? NET ENGLAND | MCT ITALY! NoT FRANCE ! HET? NOT WALL STREET q Y'Poom init! CANT CHA SEE THIS 1S NO PLACE “TD “TALK ABouT WAR? THis S A “PEACE SHIP” AN’ AND REMEMBER, BILLY, How We DANCED TO THOSE BEAUTIFUL STRAINS? 4 > TUM-TUM- = TUM- DEE =I Tum- y i); TTA \ Youne MAN. 4low CAN You Be WALHING STRAIGHT AHEAD AND NET BE GOING NOWHERE FOLKS UPSTAIRS Ceneright, Wik, Prem Pabteniog On (MY. Roveming Worl! | we ae PEACE AT any Price reali, Ces (ON Mes SHE | COMPLAINING ABOUT THE MUSIC - GOODNESS, THey muSt BE _ WILL ‘YOU PLAY 2 SOMPIN ELSE CAUSE MY PA 1DOOGOM COOK FICTION ICE MAN! T. M. ‘esum? W. C. Ve—Why don't you ring my buzzer when you leave my ice 1m the morning? T. —I do, mum. W. C. V.—Well, you didn't THIS morning! My ice went up and down the dumbwaiter all day, and I only discovered it by accident, The piece that was left wasn't any bigger than a gherry} T won't pay you for itt (Top floor busser busxzes—BUZZZ, BUZZZEZ2Z2!) . Shrill Feminine Volce—“Well?” Hoarse Masculine Voice—"Grrrocer- teat” ‘Are you from Soales told them I wanted delivered before five, tier with you people?” Vea shaft — SQUEEK- What's H. M, (Dumbwaltet od SQUBEK-8QUEE SQUEB,) ok here, GROCER!" Yeah?" “The onions aren't here!” where are they? 0 ‘eah? V.—When_ that second-floor wo stopped the dumbwatter to put her milk bottles on did she tako anything off? HM 3. F, ‘an it a package? H, M. V.—-Yeah 8. F. V.—Then it was my ONIONS 1 OOK them, Shi havin k and onions, | It ft something awful. She took my_onton: H, M, V.—Yeah? Wrathful Contralto Voice-—No such thing! I never nions! Besides, they w nN they werg turnip them oft by mis take, I ¢ want your old turnips, | You send down the dumbwaiter and T'i_put them on! BANG! 8. F. V.—That's right, grocer. Her are the onions, It’s the turnips that are missing. Pull the dumbwaiter down to her door and get them! H. M. V.—Yeah, (SQUEEK - SQUER, SQUEEL!) SQUEE | \ Bo-Feep anc: Boy Blue and Mary worked at making woolly sheep for Santa, Both maids loved Boy Blue, but none oul teens which HE loved. Mother Goose rewarded her young men for gallantry, and up to this time Boy Blue had felt rather out of things, for Jack, Peter and others had honors, but he had none, ON CARDBOARD T! —— PASTE iN BOOK, OR MARGIN AND ts had Now, i happened that because so many Kiddies asked Santa for fly- k ing machines and steel toys an¢ automobiles, and Mother. Goose's folks 3 knew nothing of making these things, that she had to send for experts in this line. And a merry group of gnomes they were,.to be sure; and when théy had finished the first automobile they asked Mary and Bo-Peep to Ip come for a ride, And this proved the real test of whom Boy Blue loved. and next evenin, A huge doll had to go immediately to reach a child in a faraway lant by Christmas Day, and dolly had no shoes, Bo-Peep's fit her per $0, not to disappoint the child, she gave her brand new, shiny slippers. Then Boy Blue became a gallant by carrying her all the way home, which made Bo-Peep sure that it was HER he loves! Bo-Peep Tooke ther prettiest, and Boy Blue admired her in the fresh pink bonnet and crisp petticoais as tre bade her farewell and wished her a good tine. But he frowned upon Ma these auto builders?” She said she was. said, “but if you go you eee never speak to me again.’ Mary did not go nd said: “Are you going out with “Well, you can do as you like,’ he Boy Blue were wec, $IVOHOTICOHWOOAOGS OOO GOODS g COLOR YOUR MOTHER GOOSE FAIRY BOOK = 8 And Compete for a Five Dollar Award. ©) THE EVENING WORLD will award $5.00 young readers who submit the best colored pag Goose Fairy Book” complete from cover to concluding page, $5.00 Class A—Children not over five years of age. $5.00 Clase B—Children over five but not over ten, $5.00 Class C—Children over ten but not over fifteen, You may use crayon or water colors. If you have missed any back pages, send a two-cent stamp to the Evening World fer each page desired and they will be mailed you. The cover wae printed Oct. 11. T ge will be printed Dec, 18 Your book, complete, and every pag: jored, must be received not later than TU DEC. 21. Add Park Row, N. Y. @ sheet of paper, pinned to the test will be returned. Cheering Christmas Gifts for Children in the New York City Hospitals. All the “Mother Goose Fairy Books" received in the co that have been nicely and carefully colored, will be distributed by THE EVENING WORLD as CHRISTMAS GIFTS among the chil- dren in the hospitals in Greater New Y: Whether or not you win of the satisfaction of knowing that your efforts ening CHRISTMAS for some child less if. jarde, you will have the gone toward bright. appily situated than ree * “Naw, sir! Ef @ Sticking to the Track. | ,onacr'on that there riovstod pe | former Congressman Martin|you could ketch me in a minutere Little tells the tale, a railroad Saturday Evening Post, was built through an obscure corner of the State of Texas where no railroads ever bad the hardihood to venture before. On the day the first train ran over the line the engineer, pulling out from a small way station, discovered that a country boy was riding @ borse between the rails a short distance ahead, The engineer sounded bis whistle again and again, but the rider only lashed his norse Into a gallop and made no effort to turn off into the farm lands which flanked the right of way, At the end of a mile-long chase the locomotive was so close upon the laboring horse that the cowcatcher almost touched its hind hoofs, The pestered engineer leaned out of his cab window. “You blamed Idiot!” he yelled, ' “Why don't you get off the track Over his shoulder tho frightened yokel dung back a desperate retort; a \