Life — June 9, 1921 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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HE Superintendent of Schools in Bos- ton has announced that he is de- termined to remove the powder from the knees of girl pupils. Rather a ticklish proposition. oe 8 Love me little, love me long said the Dachshund. soe Without knowing, themselves, exactly what it is, our Radicals won't be happy until they get it. one Poets of nineteen write the sad, sweet stuff telling that they are done with Love and life forever, alas! . . while the bald old boys of fifty are penning the lyrics of pep and passion. eee The windows sn Southwark Cathedral in London have not been washed in twenty-five years. And all this time we have been thinking that cleanliness was next to Godliness. The fool puffs himself up, the y hires a press agent. see It is astonishing how grateful a woman can be to her husband because he doesn't remember the color of his new stenog. rapher’s cyes. see Mike Clementi, age six, has run away from home forty-four times, says the New York Tribune. He only needs eleven more trips to beat Babe Ruth's rec. Fifteen hundred men have ord. volunteered to aid in closing the breach made in the wall of prohibition. Half a leak, half a leak, half a leak onward. se Faint praise ne‘er won fair lady. v2 The meek shall inherit the earth, but they'll pay a wallop- ing inheritance tax. eee You can be in love with a girl of seventeen and she will never guess it; but a girl of thirty-four is apt to guess it whether you are or not. aes Different. women are kissed in different ways. Some let it happen; others help it happen. “ More power to your elbow,” EFF DELANE is the dumbdest liar. LOCAL GOSSIP He wuz tellit Germany seems to be full of worthless marks and remarks, eee One of life’s tragi-comedies is that men and women are ix terested in love long aiter Love loses interest in them eee Whatever may have been the with Czsar’s we'll bet his hair tonic was not above suspicion. case wife eee We rated correspondent that Dr. Bowlby, of the Lord’s Day Alliance, is not of the Flowing Bowlby family. can assure an aj se An educated man is one who knows when to use a semi-coloa. see Love, says the old adage, in the Pust Office, how he seen Anse Bogart givin’ Young Anse a hoein’ over as he come by. “Old Anse gut maddern madder,” sez Jeff, “till finally he yelled thet he'd teach him to listen and pay attention, an’ he ups with a pistol and shoots him right in the head. “Howsomever,” Jeff sez, “the boy didn't take no said President Butler to Jim Rice, the coach of Columbia's recently successful eights. Has the punctilious president laughs at locksmiths but Mr. and Mrs. band had better show more re- spect to the plumber Younghus- confused crew with brew? see The librarian of Rama VI of Siam has named his son “ Chi- notice of it, he jest let it go in one ear and out the other.” (To be continued next week.) oe A Broad hair reports that the for blonde hair has i ay dealer in human jemand reased cago,” thinking it “beautiful and well balanced.” :veryone has a right to his opinion. We suppose the next Siamese twins will be christened “ Minneapolis" and “ St. Paul.” see We all admire a person who does good things unless we happen to be one of the good things. see It will take a Constitutional amendment to make hips go out of style again. The Lord Chancellor has told English that British prohibition is in- conceivable. brewers So was American. eee We predict that the investigation of the New York City government will end in a Mayor's nest. eee Money will buy a dog love will make him wag his tail. but only to such an extent that an ounce of it now costs 30 to 40 cents more than the brunette variety. Which proves, we presume, that while none but the brave deserves the fair, none but the rich an afford it. eee “Was the apple good?” a friend asked Eve. “Oh no," she replied, “it wasn't par ticularly good . . . ét.was just for- bidden!"” comicbooks.com