Life — January 8, 1920 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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—————~ § — % 3 AUT SCISSORS AvT NULLus The Right to Breathe From food and wine and warmth de barred, The music of my soul resounds; There is no registration card To keep my bellowing in bounds. Through Westminster I walk and see The men who cut my dinners short ; But what of that? The air is free, And this is England. I can snort. —Punch. One Advantage Another encouraging thing about the interest women are displaying in learn- ing how to vote is the possibility that they will share their newly acquired knowledge with the masculine members of their families—Arkansas Gazette. What has become of the old-fash ioned idea that there must always be a calm after a storm? So Subtle! “Not all the poets,” observed a fre. quenter of cosmopolitan society, “have the gift of uttering quick, light-winged, magical nothings in society. “T knew of one poet, greatly in vogue in Paris some years ago, who was not exactly a fluent dispenser of cpigram, He was invited to the house of a great lady of the Faubourg St. Germain, and as soon as he entered he became the cen ter of a circle of admirers, who waited vainly for some subtle or poetic conceit The poet remained silent, ill at ease, red in the face and uneasy of feet. “*Come, my dear poet,’ the hostess finally begged, ‘say something to us!" “*Have you observed—duchess, he faltered, desperately, ‘ that—this—year's pawn-tickets are pink?’ "—Tit-Bits, A critic isn't always a person who has tried to do it and failed. Sometimes he is a person who feels too darned su perior to try to do it. —New York Evening Su Ir Congress wants to regain its popy- larity it need only pass a bill kiving housewives mandates for their cooks —Merico (Mo.) Ledger. The Public: Now axwitwate, b —Kansas City Times. Lire is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions, Title registered in U. S. Patent Office. $5.00 a year in advance. Additional postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.05 a year; to Canada, $2 cents. Single current copies, ro cents, Back numbers, after three months from date of publication, 25 cents. Issues prior to 1910 out of print. The text and illustrations in Lire are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights in Great Britain apply to Lire. Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Lane, London, E. C., England. The foreign trade supplied from Liru's London Office, Rolls, House, lreans B ings, London, E. C, Canadian distributor, J, R, Tanguay, 386-388 St. James Se Montreal, Canada. No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by stampe envelope. Live does not hold itself responsible for the lois or non licited. contributions. Notice of change of address should reach thit office ten days pricr « issue to be af “PARDON ME, BUT IF YOU COULD MANAGE TO SECURE FOR ME y AN AUDIENCE WITH ONE OF THOSE DUCHESSES—SAY, SOME DAY NEXT WEEK—I'D LIKE TO BUY SOME HAIRPINS comicbooks.com