Life — November 13, 1919 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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828 First Lessons in Banking EAR BOBBIE: In the Cause of Thrift I send a Highly Moral Gift— A Model Savings Bank, affording A. Means of Temporary Hoarding. This Bank is made of Babbitt’s Metal And shaped like Popocatepetl ; The Top thereof presents to View A Slit for dropping Pennies through. (The Chime of Pennies, clinking-clanking, Imparts the Only Joy of Banking.) But when you wish to draw your Pence, Remembering that Violence Is like to rouse Parental Clamor, Forbear to smash it with a Hammer, But shake and bounce the Bank about Until the Pennies tumble out. And when these Faithful Walls surrender Reluctantly your Legal Tender, You will, I have a Fond Misgiving, Expend the Whole in Wasteful Living. Arthur Guiterman. On Boxes in General LL over this country there is a secret confederation of post-office-box holders. These are not those large gentlemen whose businesses compel them to have their mail delivered, for purely commercial purposes, in city post- office boxes; but those individuals who, inspired by a com- mon human trait, resent the intrusion of others into their affairs, and take a special delight in preserving their cor- respondence from the scrutiny of the vulgar. Many of them, with the advantages of free delivery, prefer to walk scoreless S Garage Owner: ste HERE! NEXT TIME YOU TELL A CUS- TOMER HOW TO AVOID ENGINE TROUBLE YOU GET FIRED. THIS AIN'T NO AUTOMOBILE SCHOOL 200V HEAVENS, BILL! WHAT ARE You AT?” vk HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT HAVING BREAKFAST IN RED THAT I'M GOING TO TRY IT.” miles every day, merely for this personal satisfaction. The box, indeed, has enthralled the imagination of human beings from time immemorial. Nothing delights a baby more than a box: it is the first symbol of individual ownership. Con- sider the jack-in-the-box—that unfailing source of joy; even in maturity we never quite recover from its spell. There is the Easter hat box that my lady's hat comes in What plutocratic joy it contains! The first thing a normal boy does—if he be not the son of ease—is to obtain a soap box and put it on wheel candyman who first conceived of sending out his product in pasteboard boxes? Surely a large part of the attraction that sweets hold for us lies in their covering. To own a box that belongs exclusively to you, one with a cover t with a simple movement will conceal its contents from the public, one in which you can place your cherished posses- sions—this is one of those fundamental human satisfa which defy analysis. Remove the form of the box from the race and we would be lost. It is the one thing that endures from generation to generation. The man in the box office unconsciously feels his importance; people in boxes at the circus and the play are, after all, but children If they could draw down a cover over themselves they might not do it, because their pride would compel them still to display their special privilege; but, nevertheless, they would all like to have a cover that might be used if they wanted to use it. Even hedges come in the form of boxes. Man carries his thought of the box from the cradle to the grave, and when he leaves the world, he does it in a box— ; and who was that canny ctions comicbooks.comnyy