Life — November 18, 1920 — page 40: what you’re looking at

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“DETER SE: If This Happened on Your Wedding Night! She had gone to change into her traveling dress. A few moments later he found her in her room—the woman he had just made his wife—and his best friend. What would you have done? What did be do? Find out from the story by O. HENRY 274 Short Stories—One Long Novel Like the Caliph of ancient Bagdad was O. Henry. He has explored the byways of colorful New York. He has walked the waterfront, dropped into strange eating places on the Bowery; he has sat for hours, disguised as a tramp, on a park bench, waiting for the adventure around the corner. And he always found it. The city was his world, and it gave him tribute of rich store of material, unfai inspiration and the key to that inner life which remains to most of us a sealed book, More people are reading O. Henry today than ever before. They read him because he has the flavor of life as we know it, the tang, the zest, the breathless, careless haste, the ironic, happy, tragic irresponsibilities which go to make up life as it is really lived. F R E E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM ‘some of the most won. a a and counterplet, seven gripping. thrilling tales that will keep you entranced from the first word to the very last. Whether it be in the lonely wastes of the South African of a Loadon fog—out on the South He makes them so real thot you forget everything sbout you in the He lets you ioto secrets that ike w the real inner workings of Your Last Chance to Get a FREE SET This i the fat edtton of. POiion CREh permits of ur giving them iree Tho 6. Henry. “When this one edition ts Fone (and there are comparatively tem Sits now left) you wil be abse 9 get Thition Oppeabeim's wondertel Sorles oly at their regular bce of $1.75 oF more jon, while yon ram ert the 0. price sith Paling agule ean Sourtarb a ebanss, Dent mise Ihe Coupon. “Bend it today. tue REVIEW or REVIEWS © Piblahera of the American Review of Reviews Review of Reviews Company, Live 11.18.20 30 Irving Place, New York City. Send me om approval, charges pald by you, O. Henry's works In 12 volumes, iim green wk cloth, with ‘set of Filipe mpenbeitn bound in cloth. s, Twill remit $1.59 in five the O. Henry set ca) FREE. Otherwise Occupation sessseseessseseeeess soserne The more sumptuous three-quarter Keratol Nieding of O.Henry costs only few cents more a volume and has proved a favorite. For a set ol this mare Tuxwrows beding. change the terms to $2.09 in $ cays, apd then $1.00 a ont foe 12 months near Fusan to visit an army corps. The agent made the mistake of selling them tickets to a hot-springs resort, very much farther than their intended destination. When they presented their tickets at the depot after alighting from the train, the collector refused to take them because they were issued for a station farther on. Though the travelers tried to make him see that it was the fault of the agent at Fusan and that in any case, as they had paid more than necessary for the tickets, the railroad could not possibly lose any- thing on the transaction, the collector paid no heed. Instead, he took the round-trip tickets away from them, made them pay the regular fare and a fine, and refused to give back the tickets for the return trip. It was written in the little red book of rules that if a man bought a ticket to Podunk, to Podunk he must go. Preaching to a Korean congregation on the dangers of small temptations, a mis- sionary described them as “snakes in the Next day the missionary was summoned to the police station, confront- ed with his metaphor, and accused of having referred covertly to Japanese of- ficials. A missionary’s wife ordered a set of dishes from a store in Japan. When they arrived she was called to the post-office and informed that, as the package was heavier than mailed packages should be, it would have to go back to Japan. She offered to pay double postage, but the postmaster insisted that, as it was written in the book that only packages of a cer- tain size could be sent through the mails, the dishes must go back to where they came from, be made into two packages, and returned. It was so done. Twice each year the furniture in every Korean house must be placed outside and the premises given a thorough cleaning under the eyes of the police. In some sec- tions of Korea the Japanese have applied the same rule to mission households. Re- cently a number of gendarmes visited a compound and commanded that all the furniture be placed outdoors and the rooms cleaned. Though the owners pro- tested that spring housecleaning had taken place only a few days before, they were obliged nevertheless to bring all their belongings outside—including even the books in their libraries—and keep them there until the police had satisfied themselves that the rooms were in proper condition, Thus it is that in Korea a well-developed funny bone is almost more necessary than a willing heart and a wise head, for one must either laugh at the tangles of red tape or else go home to a nerve sana- torium. 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