Life — May 18, 1916 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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A young American artist who has just returned from a six months’ job of driving a British ambulance on the war front in Belgium brings this back straight from the trenches: “One cold morning a sign was pushed up above the German trench facing ours, only about fifty yards away, which bore in large letters the words: “Got mit Uns!’ One of our cockney lads, more of a patriot than a linguist, looked at this for a moment and then lampblacked a big sign of bis own, which he raised ona stick. It read: ‘We Got Mittuns, Too!’ "—Argonaut Why Not? “What do they call a man who goes up in airships?” “An aviator. of course.” And what do they call the place where they keep the airships?” “An aviary, you booby.” —Baltimore American. “THE ACCIDENT OF BIRTH" The Limit He was a very small boy. Paddy was his dog, and Paddy was nearer to his heart than anything on earth. When Paddy met swift and hideous death on the turnpike road his mother trembled to break the news. But it had to be, and when he came home from school she told him simply: “ Paddy has been run over and killed.” He took it very quietly; finished his dinner with appetite and spirits unim- paired. All day it was the same. But five minutes after he had gone up to bed there echoed through the house a shrill and sudden lamentation, His mother rushed upstairs with solicitude and sym- pathy. “Nurse says,” he sobbed, “ that Paddy has been run over and killed.” “ But, dear, I told you that at dinner, and you didn’t seem to trouble at all.” “No; but—but I didn’t know you said Paddy. I—I thought you said daddy!” —Tit-Bits. “Mas. CHATTER seems to be quite a conversationalist ” “Yes She has three cars to brag about and six servants to complain of.” —Boston Globe. Lire is published every Thursday, simultancously in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions. $5.00 a year in advance, Additional postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1 04 a thiol to Canada, 52 cents Single cur- rent copies, 10 cents. Back numbers, after three months from date of publication, ascents. Issues prior to 1910 out of print The text and illustrations om Live are Co oparighted. For Reprint Rights in Great Britain Live ia for aale by all newadealers in Great Britain and may be oblained from book sellers in all the principal cities in the world. The foreign trade supplied from Live's London Office, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, London, E. C. No contribution will be returned unless accompanied by ‘stamped and addressed envelope. Live does not hold itself responsible for the loss or non-return of wnso licited contributions. Prompt notification should be sent by subscribers of any change of address. opply to Live, Rolls House, Breams Buldings, Fetter Lane, London, E. England enthusiasm for 2 mnapived “by atte ts recincpired elrier RENCH Naturay Seana TAB is WATER OME of Nature’s tnumphs, such as a sun- For a hie claus Hike bal“tay PERRIE set, you cannot transport, but Perrier, one of her supreme delicacies, is so bottled that wherever opened it is as fresh and brilliant and bubbling as when it gushes from the glorious Penter spring in Sunny France. A glass of Perrier alone or with a slice of lemon in the early morning is invaluable in gout and uric acid troubles. Obdtainable at all high-class Hotels, Restaurants and Grocers, Pennies, Leto. SIS Longacre Bldg, Cor. Broadway & 42d St., New York own carbonic gas, A Complete Electric Light Plant for your Country House for $350 Extreme simplicity of operation Low cost of operation and maintenance Absolute freedom from trouble Dependable under all conditions Moderate cost of installation These are features of the Mor-Lite in- dividual electric light plant for country homes. one current for behing the 1 average house, garage, etc., and for op- cee i erating any household apparatus, feel as vacuum cleaner, sewing mat electric fans, etc. Costs only about ten cents a day to use. We have larger plants where greater capacity is needed, also smaller and lower priced outfits for bungalows, etc. Write for Bal- FAIRBANKS, MORSE & COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK IORE 47 Oliver St. 30 Church Street Ppa te comicbooks.com Sh 2a ®.