oll EK > I \ ‘dh ls | i { ! | | ! i | i | | | | | I | | | ot { hardly seems / MAKE BELIEVE MARY DO You KNOW * ( ALL ABOUT WHERE WHERE THE * ) |T'§ AT! YA WALK HOBBS HOSPITAL / STRAIGHT AHEAD IS AT THREE BLOCKS THEN eo TURN AROUND AND GO THIS WAY °N THEN THE OTHER WAY — 'N THEN [T'S ON’ THE OTHER LITTLE GIRLY, /On sure! 1 know THANR You! taxi wie You i KINDLY TAKE US TO THE HOBBS HOSPITAL w Yes. MAM Ft 7 B= Coovelhi 1H, bv DAT Fublivhiag Co., los. Lo AFTER I EXPLAIN TO HER WHERE |T’S AT SHE GOES AN’ TAKES A TAXI SOME FOLRS DON’T PPRECIATE BEIN’ DIRECTED 1 By Helfant ‘COURSE 1 DION'Y cf KNOW WHERE THAT HOSPITAL WAS AT ANY MORE THAN SHE DID BUT I WASN'T GONNA \ LET HER THINK I WAS THAT Suen i] 0 = =, = ~ ART HELFANT] PLANE IN DISTRESS Aviator Winging His Way on Non-Stop Flight to Hawaii Sends S.0.S. Special to The Funnies by Empty Ambrose, only passenger aboard the ill-fated ship BOARD the sea-plane SEA A URCHIN. April 31; Well, hear I am folks, up in the air, It impossible that. this great flight to Hawaii has really star- tled. But it have, and what's not more, I am one of the crew, We took off this morning at 10 P. M. from Roosevelt Field, Lost An- gelus, in a south-northern wind. A grate crowd had gathered to see us disembark, and when the wooden doors of the hanger were rolled back and the plain came shooting out they was no longer able to hold back their enthusaism. With one achord they rased across the field and began cut- ting strips off the wings for suvenirs. Finally someone hacked off one of the propellor blades. . We took off, however, at the stroke of daw, none the worse for the ex- perience. First we flew over the Golden Gate, circling several times above the Statue of Liberty. Then, when the guns of Fort Sumter had fired five times into the air in salute, we headed toward the Atlantic Ocean. : For a long time we followed the Hudson river, passing Albany, Pitts- burgh and Cleveland on the way. ; At Chicago we saw a group of natives playing among the palm trees on the beach and the pilot threw down a note asking: “Is this the way to Cuba?” But although we hung suspen- cioned near the Washington Monu- ment for a long time, there was no reply. Soon, however, a series of snow-caped mountains reaapeared in the distance and we new we were on the right path. : Our flight across Alaska was cold and uncomfortable. The engines froze and one of our wings was snapped off by a mountain peak. But it takes worse accidents than them to discour- age our pilot. : Right now we are fighting one of the worsted storms that have ever ragged across the Bering Straight. It is becoming hard to balance my type- writer and I have given up trying to drink my tea altogether. The pilot keeps turning around, though, to tell me everything is not all right. Just now the lighting lit up his face show- ing his one glass eye to be still the same bright, cheerful blue as when the sunshine flooded our path. “Bad news,” he whispered, “our gas tank is leaking.” “Let’s have a look at it,” said I. “Have you got a match?” For a few minutes he fumbled around in the pockets of his drill suit but at last shook his head sadly. “Afrade not. It wouldn't do much good, though, because snow has clogged our proppelor, too.” z I smiled." “That's easily fixed. Cut the propellor off.” E I started to crawl out on the re- maining wing to cut away the propel- lor. But he stopped me. “Stay back,” he shrieked. be killed.” “We'll probably be killed anyway,” I said to cheer him up. So, if you wait just a minute, folks, while I hack off the propellor, I'll be right back—That is—wxtychHLt—Sojhelgting qiiieonr is happthenkkking. We're going down —down— “You'll Editor's Note: The Sea Urchin seems to be in distress, alright. But we shall not give up hope for Empty yet. A SILHOUETTE ALBUM You probably have a photograph album of your friends or thought at. some time or other of starting one. But a far more interesting idea is an album of silhouettes and it isn’t very difficult to assemble either. A silhouette, as you know, is a pic- ture done in outline and filled in with one color, usually black. It gets its name from Etienne de Silhouette, a French politician of the 18th century who liked to cut portraits of his friends out of black paper. Since Mon- sieur de Silhouette was generally dis- liked anyway, because he disapproved of the extravagance of the Court, his simple pictures were ridiculed and called “4 la Silhouette." But later on they became fashionable and it is little wonder. For there is nothing more piquant or charming than a lovely “profile painted in black and mounted on white cardboard. The professional artist, of course, draws his silhouettes on paper, ivory, or glass; or else cuts them freehand with a scissors. But a simple method by which anyone can get good results is the following: First secure. some drawing paper, some dull black paper, a lamp or can- dle and, in case you do not draw very well, a pantograph, which is an instru- ment for enlarging or reducing draw- ings and can be had in any art store. Now, pin a sheet of drawing paper | on the wall, then place your sitter ' on a chair close to the paper so that his or her profile is parallel to the wall, Next, set the lamp or candle several feet away in such a position that the light will be on a level with the center of the sitter’s head. You will now find. that the profile is cast in shadow on the paper. Draw carefully around it. Then take the sheet down and begin to re- duce the drawing either freehand or by means of the pantograph. In case you tackle it freehand, four or five re- ductions will be necessary before reaching the correct size. Begin about half an inch inside the line and follow each curve carefully. Then commence half an inch inside that, etc. When the proper size is reached compare the result with the original, make any necessary changes, then trace it on the black paper and cut it out, No! You caAN'T BE A COP —You'Re NOT STRONG CLANCY THE COP WELL, I'M STRONGER THAN You! NOT STRONG ENOUGH 7? You TEN DOLLARS ; Lv BET CAN HOLD UP THE WORLD / YOU WIN BUDDY YOU SURE ARE STRONG !
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