10-Story Book, July 1931 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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10-STORY BEGINS ITS 30TH SUCCESSFUL YEAR! 15 “Come heah wid dat copy of de new nineteen thutty-one 10-Story Girl Photo Revue, niggah! Ah’s gwine use dat volume to bribe de jedge when ah comes up fo’ trial on dat chicken stealin’ business tomorrow afternoon!” minds of two entirely different types of reader the exact effect it was intended to produce in each. Mr. Kane, to whom she handed it at five o’clock, as he emerged from work, it reduced to a state of profound and profuse pro- fanity. “I’ve got a copy of it at ’ome,” she in- formed him, when he paused for breath, “And it’s Dale Street I’m going to to get a summons against you. This letter’ll show as I’ve tried to get you to act straight, so you better fork out as fast as you can. It'll fetch ’em.” It did “fetch ’em!” On the day her case was to be heard she took the child Isa with her, and no child was ever more carefully washed and dressed than Isa was that morn- Her appearance in court, combined with Mrs. Blissful’s neat attire, superior, re- spectful manner and her affectionate letter, assuring her defaulting spouse that a faith- ful and loving wife only awaited his return ing. to make a home for their child; set against Mr. Kane’s obvious perfidy and sullenness, won the day and an out-and-out cash pay- ment of eight pounds for Mrs. Blissful, to be made the following day. ‘““Now,” said Mrs. Blissful, as she left the court, injured virtue written largely on her face, “I must see the vicar’s wife about get- ting a place for Elsie.” ‘‘Elsie’s a good girl,” she said in her inter- view. “She’s a bit rough, but then she’s only young, and she’s a good girl. If I could get her into service in a real good house it would be the making of her.” “She is a good girl,” assented the vicar’s wife warmly, “And, if I may say so, Mrs. Blissful, you have a good family. They are a credit to you.” It was the truth. Whatever her sins may have been, she had allowed none of them to spoil her children. As many a man who has been poor in his youth and has made money (Continued to page 17) ECORMNICLOOOKS.CO