Life — September 2, 1920 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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sAUT SCISSORS Aut NULLus On the Mother's Side Poor father gets it from the most unex- pected places, even from the cemetery. Cer- tainly there is no tafly—no epitaphy, so to speak—handed him in the following inscrip- tion on a tombstone in Birmingham, Eng- land : “Here lies the mother of children seven, Four on earth and three in heaven; The three in heaven preferring rather To die with mother than live with father.” —Boston Transcript. A Matter of Training Executive ability has been variously de- fined, but the following from an executive with a sense of humor seems to cover the whole subject. He said; “ Executive ability is the ability to hire someone to do work for which you will get the credit, and, if there is a slip-up, having someone at whose door to lay the blame.” LIPE’S CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL NOW TO BECOME AN ARTIST Block heads should be used to draw from at first, If you have none handy, get some member of the family to pose for you, As soon as you have the block head mastered, copy above sketch. Use your own originality and draw a teacup or rose in the hand; they sell the drawing to a magazine, and with the Money and Credit The unsettlement of foreign exchange bred a considerable contempt for fore currency in the minds of certain Ameri The American father of one Yank who b stayed in France to “ established a generous line of credit for him. Friend Son began to hit things. up rather hard, and in consequence the father received a cablegram reading: “ Your son's account already overdrawn one hundred] thousand.” % To which he cabled back to the bankerss| “Tf you mean dollars, send him home. if you mean pounds, tell him to be caref if you mean those funny little things, lef him have all he wants.” —American Legion Weekly, Obtuse Muceins: It’s strange that Wigwag doesn't succeed. He seems to have no difel ficulty in catching on. Bucotx Maybe the trouble is he! doesn’t know when to let go. —Philadelphia Record. Whew an energetic man finds a four-leaf” clover, it generally means that he will have New York Evening Post. five thousand dollars open a delicatessen store. good luck.—Jewell (Kan.) Republican, Live is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, Great Britain, The foreign trade supplied from Lire’s London Office, Rolls House, Breams Canada and British Possessions. Title registered in U. S. Patent Office. $5.00 a year ings, London, F. C. Canadian distributor, J. R. Tanguay, 386-388 St. James ina ce. Additional postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.60 a year; Montreal, Canada. to Canada, 80 cents, Single current copies, 15 cents, Back numbers, after three months No contributions wil be ceturned ualeis accompanied by stamped end s cents, Issues prior to 1910 out of print. lope. Live does not hold itself responsible for the loss or nom-return of e : 4 “ ” licited contributions, , in Live are copyrighted. Tor Reprint Rights in Great Britain Hey hate if edivesx ahanld reach this-vlkce te wade gti toe y to Lire, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Lane, London, E. C., England. ‘ ¥ 96 of i wo mechs prior to theta issue to be affected. People of taste and discrimina- tion give The Hollenden its charm. They are the friends who have come to know this hotel as their own. For them it has the intimate qualities of a personal club. THE HOLLENDEN CLEVELAND RATES ith Bath Single + + $3.00 to $5.00 Double + - $5.00 to $7.00 Twin Beds - $6.00 w $8.00 “ WANT TO SEE THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE.” “ YE'LL MAVE TO WAIT A MINUTE, THEY'RE JUST DECIDIN’ IT! comicbooks.comi}