Life — December 9, 1920 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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Sterilized Kisses “Among new inventions is a kissing screen, a small contrivance which every sanitary lover is expected to carry in his pocket.” There is great danger in the kiss; There has been and will ever be The game with any pretty miss That has no danger’s not for me. From kisses I have caught with case A dozen kinds of heart disease. The kiss that has been sterilized Is rumless punch, a sexless dance, A saltless egg, a game devised With room for neither skill nor chance. What's caught from kissing, bachelor, Is something to thank Heaven for. —Sydney Bulletin. The One and Only! A British merchant who has just been the In a Pinch, use ALLEN’S FOOT-EAS guest of the sultan of Zanzibar was invited to inspect the harem. In the garden was a merry-go-round that the sultan had imported great expense from the United States. Several of the wives were mounted on the A Cc wooden horse. “There's Only One Girl in This World for Me” was the tune that was Face Powoer being played by the organ. —Detroit Free Press Lablache pays homage to the complexions “T hing about Esau.” directed of millions of fair women, who in apprecia- at Ss something about Esau.” directes “We use Lablache, and always will the catechism teacher. | until something better is ‘ Vincent, after clearing his throat, ex found.” Lablache has [RTD plained that “Esau was a man who wrote been the standard for ae » fables and sold the copyright to a publisher arly fifty years. : iN for a bottle of potash.” __ sratase Substitutes ‘Ss ( —Varsity News (Univ. of Detroit). “Tt. be frank with you,” declares the : y enthusiast, and immediately the listener sets rBEN. LEVY CO. KR his indicators at “doubtful.” ies Raga Gon esas Ba. NY a Florida Times-Union. SD BACK OF THE HARPER NAME-103 YEARS OF GOOD BOOKS NEW HARPER NOVELS CALIBAN THE FOOLISH MATRONS THE VACATION OF By W. L. George By Donn Byrne THE KELWYNS What some of the leading critics is a story of how four women By William Dean Howells say: The Nation: “Burning ca work out the problems of mar- dor... magnificently alive. jage. “This new novel places “Out of a momentary pause in The New York Evening Post: Hele le ES “ Donn Byrne in the vanguard of a jazzed world I seem to see a Peeler gee pa Hina modern novelists."—New Haven white-haired wizard take down SUnwore Nimes Aa -aeaci Courier-Journal. “Mr, Byrne his violin, and to hear in the picture of this wonderful age.” has high convictions about mar. clean, pure, compelling melody Philadelphia North American: riage and his novel embodies the expression of a power, ele “A brilliant_revelation.” H. L. them with fire and absorbing mental, penetratingly ardent, lu: Mencken: “The best novel that drama—a book presenting with minously sincere, that shames George has ever done. $2.00 true artistry a segment of life.” every shabby trick and consi AN OLD CHESTER SECRET New York Times. the tom-toms of art to a pitiful By Margaret Deland YOUTH CHALLENGES Alexander Black in the is the story of the growth of a rk Times. $2.00 fnother's love. for the child she By Clarence Badington Kelland had disowned. How this love Against a realistic picture of | THE GREAT DESIRE came, all unbidden; how the great industry, Mr, Kelland By Alexander Black Sy Tie TT, child, grown to a splendid man- lect “ke diawatic’ (tary, OF hood, sat in judgment on bis Bre 4 parents, and how he weighed ¥e. uth’s_ revolt: of Bonbright is the book which the ¢ i ote, VII, heir to millions, who headed by the late William Dean "AD ieres alice gave oreniaiag oy sacrifices everything to love, only Howells, universally praised as asked “nothing, of “little Miss to be thrust from his new para- one of the great American novels Lydia” make a story as dra- dise, and forced to win back by of our generation. Thirteen matic and appealing as any Mrs. as strange a road asa rich man months after publication it is still Wig Sv00) LIRR: TUR MONTH SxvORE:cHM Deland has ever written. $1.0 ever trod. $175 among the best sellers, $1.90 as?” Est. 1817 HARPER & BROTHERS New York “YES, WE GET SUCH GooD SERVICE IN a SE APARTMENT House!” comicbooks.com