Life — May 19, 1921 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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USSYFOOT JOHNSON is going to introduce prohibition into India, He says it is one of the few remaining coun- tries where the tigers are not blind. eee © The assertion, by Sir James Cantlie, that the fewer clothes you wear, the higher your temperature rises, has occasioned a great deal of feverish interest among our flappers. eee The country will warm up to Harding after he has had time A man went into a New York barber- shop recently and asked to be shaved. When the operation was completed, he was handed a bill for $6.15. The barber evidently thought the fellow had asked to be trimmed, oe. If you want to know the most popular men in history, take a census of the insane asylums. Are there more Na- poleons than Shakespeares, more Christo- pher Columbuses than Thomas Edisons? Uniformed Patrolmen made hourly visits to the few saloons where there was the slightest suspicion liquor was being drank on the premises.—Nevw York Herald. And arrested these places, we trust, or a charge of dispensing had grammar. eee Anyone can be popular who is willing to listen to bores and lend money to wastrels. eee It will take something more than censor. ship to improve the to make a few popular mistakes. eee Revolutions seem to be running around all over Europe looking for places to happen. eed “Tam the master of my own destiny,” writes the poet... and then hides in the basement till his wife sends word that the collector has gone eee Main Street doesn’t seem to have improved much since David Harum lived there. see Every time you look at Japan some one has just stepped on her feelings. see It appears now that our air service cost only half of what has been stated. Would WITH you? “MARY, WILL YOU PLEASE LEAVE THE ROOM, AND TAKE I'VE JUST RECEIVED A BILL FROM THE GARAGE MAN, AND I WANT TO bISCUSS IT WITH fITM.” movie: Mayor Hylan, of New York and Cork, is to be investigated, Is this another boom for the presidency? eee It was Georze Harvey, and not the owner of the New York Herald, who was sent Ambas- sador to England; and once more it may be observed, Sic as transit gloria Munsey see Einstein sa the Universe is finite, but the Universe refuses to be drawn into an argument. eee We enter beg leave to the following (from the New Yorx Globe) in the next international — mixed metaphor contest: THE CHILDREN that the same com- forting thing could be said of our hot air service. eee Mankind has always passionately loved Justice—as a topic of conversation. eee Popular government must always be more or less unthrifty and inefficient. —The Villager Is that what makes it popular? eee It is rumored that the man who recently jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge saw a bottle floating below with the cork in. There used to be a type of man of whom everybody said: “ What ‘a wonder Jones would be if he only stayed sober!" But since Prohibition has kept him sober for a while, Jones has been explaining that he could never do his best work without alcoholic inspiration. eee Emma Goldman says she hasn't suffered so much in Russia as the papers have stated, But then, maybe she is only trying to make us feel worse about it. “The t remains we are technically at war up to the present day, and, God helping him, the real Ameri- can will take good care that the unsatisfied mortal who would undermine that for which our forefathers bled and died shall walk the chalk line so long as he takes his bread and butter from the hand of Uncle Sam.” Kansan Says Hard Work Is Secret of Long Life—Newspaper headline. Hasn't some other little boy got a better answer than that? comicbooks.com