Life — May 13, 1915 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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ELIZA AND THE HOUNDS How will they pay for this war? ther “Hoch der Kaiser” or sell “The Watch on Another interesting feature of the competition was the wide geographical distribution of the competitors. It seemed as though every city, town and hamlet in every State of the Union was ambitious to supply the young people in the picture with appropriate remarks, The in- terest also spread to our outlying possessions and several foreign countries. * The following are replies which were also considered in awarding the prizes. They will be found remarkable as showing the varied lines of thought suggested to different minds by the same picture: “Are American arms as effective as German?” “T should consider some American arms very dangerous things to have around me.” “So it took his wound to find your heart.” He (peevishly): What do you find so interesting about those war pictures? Sue (dreamily): The men! “It's the girl behind the man behind the gun That wins the day.” Sue: What are they fighting for? He: For home and country. Sue: Whose home and whose country? Sue: “Just like a woman” not to see glory in the man she loves killing the man some other woman loves. Her Sense or Dancer. “How can men live in those trenches where angleworms might crawl out on them any minute?” “ Unrequited love is war's best recruiting officer.” “ Civilization is only skin deep.” When women vote, then wars will cease. When women vote, there'll be no peace. Sur said: “In the present war Britannia rules the waves and Germania waives the rules.” Sue: War is hell. He: Yes, and the Kaiser's orders, “ Fall in, men, fall in!” Her Suatterep Romance. Su Sometimes I feel like a reincarnated Joan of Arc. He: Kindly remember your name is Schultz. “At present—no, sir; But if away you go, sir, And fight our hated foe, sir, Then—maybe so, sir.’ Sune: I see the Turks have begun hostilities. He: And the loss of a Turkish soldier causes so many widows. ve got a country to die for. Now, sweet, give me a wife to live for—and watch me play the trencher.” I'll marry my brave Francois if he re- “You? Jamais! turns home with only enough body left to contain his soul! “Really, it looks as if we have been sending missionaries to the wrong places.” Sue: When a man talks he never stops to think. He: When a woman talks she never thinks to stop. Sue: When women vote the dove of peace will reign uupreme. iE: Ab, yes—poor old stork! Sue: Father says if Teddy was President this war would now be over. He: It would. Over here. Sue: If thy hyphen offend thee, pluck it out. It’s horrible, all those poor soldiers being slaugh- Oh, they don’t mind that; they’re used to it. “Arms and the Woman.” He: What are you looking at? Suz: The Follies of 1915. He: Anything serious? Yes; the seat of war will need a lot of patching ste this struggle is over. “Come, Antoinette, be reasonable. I can’t help my name's being Steinberg.” “No, but I can keep mine from being that.” He: So your dear count was wounded? Yes, but his picture doesn’t show it. That’s a front view. “She who hesitates is won.” Generatitiss. Sue: Fine records these Generals have. He: They cannot be compared with your engagements and not one surrender. Sue: To be sketched by Mr. Gibson is flattering. He: Yes, the drawing should show our heads slightly turned. micbooks.com