Life — February 5, 1920 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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OURS FOOLISH | CONTEMPO ARIES ee a RIE ne EGYPTIAN | DEITIES One Good Thing “There is one good thing about this vers libre.” “What's that “ Nobody a popular song.” tried to set any of it to —Lonisville Courier-Journal. Some Service General Washington Lee was the most boastful darky in the regiment. All the way across on the transport he had been telling the world what he was going to do to the German army, Naturally, when the outfit finally arrived in the front lines his companions looked for him to pro- duce, But Wash appeared to be in no hurry, “Yo! all so brave, why don’ yo’ go out an’ git some of dem Jummans lak yo’ said?" sneered one. Ah’s gwine, Ah’s gwine. Gimme responded George OWNE NAME IN EVERY PAIR Those who sell Fownes Gloves do not have to force or explain their wares. Since 1777 buyers have found them the best of GLOVES FOR MEN. WOMEN & CHILDREN He peeked cautiously over the top Seeing no activity from the German line, he crawled over and finally stood erect “Come on, Jumman,” he quavered. Then he waited, Silence reigned su- preme. “Come on, yo’ cowards!” he shouted, feeling safe at last. “Come on out heah and meet yo’ master. Come on, show me somethin’, Ah’m waitin’.” At that moment a German artillery- man dropped a shell within a dozen yards of Wash. The explosion blew him unhurt back into his own trench. “What yo’ got ter say now?” taunted a companion, Wash considered. “Well,” he retorted, “no matter what you say about dem Jummans, yo’ gotta admit they suah gives yo" service when yo’ ask fo’ it."—Home Sector. BINKS DISCOVERS WHERE THF FORMER OCCUPANT OP HIS SEAT AT THR MOVIES NAD PARKED HER GUM “The Utmost in C; People of culture and refinement invariably | PREFER “Deities to any other cigarette 30% Mabers of the llighest Gr and Egyptian Cigarettes » the Nerdd Comparisons Are G. B. 5. The latest of Mr. Bernard Shaws many comparisons between the l'ngl man and the Irishman is: “ There is one point on which the Englis superior to the Irishman. li lishman calls an Irishman a Irishman flames into a rage (b most self-satisfied snob on God's earth and knocks the Englishman down if he can, or reviles him if he cannot. But if an Irishman calls an Englishman a fool, the Englishman goes away sorrowfully and says to himself, ‘God forgive so I am, That Irish beast was right. Something must be done.’” “T am not quite sure,” writer in the London Observer, fits into the present difficult si but it looks, at a cursory glance, as if each had called the other several kinds of fool quite recently."—Boston Transerip To stop the pain of Corns, Bunions, Callouses, Blisters, Tired, Aching, Swollen, Tender Feet, usc ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE ‘The Antiseptic, Healing Powder to Shake tate’ Your Shoes and sprinkle in the ! oot- th. Sold everywhere, Be sure to get (bis kage— 158 GENUINE FOREIGN STAMP: 3 ‘War Issues, Venesuela, Salvador and ]() India Service. Quatemale, China, ete. Finest Fy Big 72, Vets Pree, We Bar HUSSMAN STAMP 'CO., comicbooks.com