Life — June 9, 1921 — page 6: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“CAN THIS BE DR, ALBERT EINSTEIN!” Sanctum Talks "Gre morning, Lire.” “Good—great Betelgeuse ! Can this be Dr. Albert Einstein, or am I experiencing just a subjective sensation? Well, my dear fellow humorist, speaking relatively, good morning !" “Now, Lire, cut out that fourth dimen- This is just man to man. I dropped in to see how you thought I was pulling it all off— am 1 getting away with it, as they say in America ?" “You mean—” “T mean, am I all right and quite O. K. as an advertiser? Has Bergson, or Ches- terton, or Ibaiiez got anything on me—in a manner of speaking ?” “Oh! Now I get you, doctor, if you don't mind my putting it that way; and, if you should ask me, I'll say you're a wonder. “Think so, do you?” “T'm just as firmly convinced of it as I sion stuff, if you get what I mean am that you don’t know really what you're talking about: what more can I say? I can tell you, doctor, it makes us shop- keepers feel mighty humble when you chaps can come over from the other side and beat us all at the great game of ad- vertising.” “Yes, Lire. I flatter myself I do shake rather a nasty cosmic hoof. That wasn’t a bad thing to begin on, was it—my saying there were only twelve men in the universe who could understand me ?” “Quite gorgeous. And then to deny it afterwards.” “Exactly, Lire—all a part of the game. America is so young—and so wealthy.” “And so delightfully gullible. fall for anything—we'll pay moncy equally to sce a sick gorilla, a port- We'll our good ly novelist, a peripatetic pragmatist or an opaque astronomer, the only condition being that they come from foreign parts. And what would you do without us, Dr. Einstein ?” “My dear Lire, ask me something casy.” T. L. M. LIFE That Endowment Party E are in a quandary. When last we spoke of the Fresh Air Endowments it was to say that three more endowments were needed to make up the two hundred children who would be sent as a special endowment party, to spend a fortnight at the Farm in August. We said we relied upon the generosity of Lire’s readers. As always that reliance was justi more than justified. 2o1st child, and perhaps more, \ ) and It’s puzzling, but that I be taken care of in some way. We have received from Earl C. Anthy Esq., of San Francisco, funds to establish FRESH AIR ENDOWMENT NO, 198 In the Name of small boy Ketty Ay riosy From Mrs. Fitch W. Smith, of New York City, funds to establish FRESIL AIR ENDOWMENT NO. 199 In the Name and to the Memory of Fitrcu W. Satirn. From Mrs. John L. Porter, of burgh, funds to establish FRESH AIR ENDOWMENT No. 2 From Mrs. W. S. Rodic, of Se Orange, New Jersey, funds to establish FRESH AIR ENDOWMENT NO, 20 Pitts To establish a Fresh Air Endowment t dred dollars*in Victory notes or bonds, or their equivalent, should be registered mail to Live's Fresh Air Fe 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York City The income from thts amount provides every summer, in perpetuity, a poor child » sent from the slums of New York for a fortoi stay in the fresh air of the country. The Bachelor: CONGRATULATIO! 1 HOPE YOU'LL. BE AS HAPPY AS I HAVE BEEN, comicbooks.com