Life — August 5, 1920 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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EGYPTIAN DEITIES "The Utmost in Cigarettes” Plain End or Cork Tip Only a Glance Over steaming teacups the two damsels sat and talked. The conversation turned upon an unfortunate individual who had in- curred the disfavor of one of them. I never did like him,” she said. when he used to write me glowing love letters I would only glance over them once.” People of « culture and refinement invariably PREFER Deities toany other cigarette. 30° Only once, dear?” “Well—er—sometimes when I couldn't make out his abominable scrawl I would glance over them the second time." “Indeed!” said the other maiden, “and was that all? Except sometimes at night, I would take them from under my pillow and read them just to kill time.” “And that was the end?” “Yes,” was the reply; “only on rainy days I used to look over them again just to sce how silly a man can be when he Strarguros starts writing love letters, But I only Meters of the Highest Grade Erlich glanced over them, dear. I never did like tend Egyptan Cigaretles inthe Karl him."—Tit-Bits — A Twosome Platform Inadequacies Railroad Pronunciation aap B heat sary iblick and his The platform is silent upon the forty The conductor and a brakeman on . Wile are going ep arRte . | hour week, short skirts, sugar, bare backs. tana railroad differ as to the proper = Putter: Yes, | know; she can’t stand it. nunciation of the name Eurelia. Passes are often startled upon arrival at this sta tion to hear the conductor yell: “ You'rea liar! You're a liar Then from the brakeman at the other end comes the cry “You really are! You really are!” —Boston Tran The Rumor the wayward spring, the dry decision, the | ser He's always beating her. Masur Beating her? Terrible! i} Putter: No! Just golf! —Passing Show. ant-girl problem, how to make a war garden when you can’t find a home, private stock, home brew, what to do with the Kaiser, foreign exchange, sales below cost. the paper scarcity, chilblains, sunstroke and the victrola next door. hoe a In a Pinch, use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE. d Leather Reporter. The most unfair person is the one who asks you for advice and doesn’t let you Ir a man has a great deal to say, you may “It’s just an idle rumor.” : know what advice he wants. be sure that it won't take him very long to “Well, my wife's bridge club is in se —Kansas City Star, say it—New York sion. If those ladies get hold of that idk rumor, they'll soon put it to work.” | —Louisville Courier-Journal. 4 —— “T consiper the laborer worthy of bis hire,” remarked the union organizer. “And the hire the better,” sadly remarked NEW HARPER BOOKS WHAT’S THE WORLD COMING TO? Political Dynamite THE BLOOD-RED DAWN For a Presidential year— By Charles Caldwell Dobie Clem Jester, who had been highering harvest George Creel’s— THE WAR, THEWORLD, AND WILSON The entire back- ground of the big issues, and abatch and is on sale at By Rupert Hughes In the midst of each great hase of modern American life upert Hughes has written a book about that phase—a book that will live. This story of tur- bulent youth, caught up in. the maelstrom of New York, is a novel of to-day for to-day—and to-morrow — written with com- pelling interest and veracity. Illustrated. $2.00. By Philip Gibbs “It will survive as the great est record of four terrible years, a record which is great literature and history, terrible in its un- sparing truth, its majesty horror, its candor, . New York Times. Illustrated. Cloth. $3.00, A novel of romance and real igm set where Orient and Occi- dent meet in the City of the jolden Gate. “The author knows his San Francisco. This story, his first full-length book, gives a graphic and colorful picture of intrigue in the foreign quarter of that city of lights.” — New York Times. Post 8vo. Cloth. $1.75, “THE GREATEST FAIL- URE IN ALL HISTORY” By John Spargo How Sovietism in its original form has failed to cope with unavoidable human inequalities and, under economical - stress, has developed into an autocracy which subverts the chief aims of Bolshevism. Crown 80. Cloth. $2.50, Quenches thirst hands—Barber County (Kan.) Indes. HEENTA FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHECONA EVANS ALE. Tht Leadse] Hote’ Rest Suppl all bookstores. Have you read THE GREAT DESIRE, By Alexander Black?|| Poggesses a charm all its 0 Cloth. Post 800 , ) $2.00 and pleases the good drinker in Es. 1817 HARPER & BROTHERS New York the good old-fashioned Evans’ way | C,H. EVANS & SONS Estab, 1786 Mo comicbooks.com