The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-12
Eggs and Maggie
Start Next Month
on Tour of World

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cloud on the bass drums!
Jiggsr and Maggie are going to
tour the worlds
Their creator, George McManus.
is about to start them on trip
around the globe IN The State Jour
nall 49, A-sst ae
In all, the history of American
fun making nothing has ever been
imagined like this trip of Americas
two best known comic characters to
all those cities of the old and new
hemispheres of which. since their
fame has preceded them there. they
are already citizens by affectionate
adoption. For the sun never sets
on .Jiggs and Maggie. There are
newspaper readers. old and young.
in China and New Zealand who
know them as well as the readers of
The state Journal. - - ~
In starting his celebrated char
acters on their world journey. Nc
Manus is putting into pictures a plan
he has entertained these several
years and which will be the product
of his own Journeys in many lands
and among various peoples of the
earth. For the father of bringing
Up, Father" is an ardent traveller
himself. For ~ dozen years he has
spent a portion of each year in maxi
ing first hand acquaintance with the
life and people of countries other
than his own. The trip of Jiggs and
Maggie around the world. will, be
the reflection, in part, of what he
has seen and thought on his world
wide travels. -
In following his series day by day
readers of The State Journal will be
taken to the Hawaiian Islands. and
China, to Japan, the Philippines
Korea and Siam whose king Rama
is an enthusiastic sJiggs fan and oc-
casionally sends a =~letter to Nc
Manus thanking him for some spe-
cial moment of relaxation afforded
by the cartoon in the press of-the
affairs of state. Jiggs and Maggie
will visit the Tai MahaI in India,
the Pyramids and temples in Egypt,
forum and coliseum at Rome.F They
will be present at bull fights in
Madrid and old Seville. will try their
luck at Monte Carlo, will disport on
the beaches at Biarritz, Ostend and
Deauville and will embark for
America on the last lap of their
journey-haVing touched all the
high spots in Paris and London
from the green shores of Ireland
where Jiggs shall have hunted the
native corned beef and cabbage to
it's lair.
Their trip vim afford endless play
for the unique humor and sparkling
philosophy which is invariably Of
the essence of every MeManus pic
ture. In the adventures and en-
counters of Jiggs and Maggie all
across the world there will occur
situation after situation which will
be uproariously funny and in which
! the famous characters will conduct
themselves with all their ustomary
drollery and shrewdness and kindli-
ness. To journey with Jiggs and
Maggie will be to put away your
cares and absorb for a few minutes
every day the spirit Of wholesome
fun and happy laughter. Also to
take a memorable trip with keen
guides and counsellors and See the
world thru the trained eyeek of one
of the worlds sagest wits and satir-
lists.
Bag and baggage, trunks, xeuri-
ers, golf bags and poodle dogs. the
Jiggs household will start on its
merry way October I. Trail along
with the happy travellers, do not
miss a moment of the fun. You
will be long On the journey but
never surfeited with it. You will
see the world and be refreshed by
, it, and you will drink to the fill
from the perpetual spring whence
flows mans most beneficent tonic
happy laughter