Life — July 7, 1921 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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‘J E understand that a monster mass meeting has been held by the Cats’ Protective Association to protest against the use of the word ‘‘Pussyfoot” in de- scribing prohibition propagan- The aesthetic sense is an unconscious sense of the fitness of things. The sense of humor is a conscious sense of the un- fitness of things. Ten mills don’t make a cent when they're) closed from over-production. * * * Any married woman is ready to prac} tice economy if her husband dists. > * oe * Business Conditions Improv- ing, Says Ford.—Boston Post. And Henry is saying it with flivvers. * ok x Eternal vigilance is the price of wearing a one-piece bath- ing suit. x ok OF This being a non-presidential year, the front porch will be a place for the hammock in- stead of the bunk. * oe Hearst’s New York Ameri- can has begun an attack on the Red Cross. It’s a dull day when William Randolph isn’t somewhere on the offen- sive. ee Ox The United States spends enough on candy and ice cream in a year to build half a dozen super-dreadnaughts. “Sweet” land of Liberty, is place and Jordan's Corner. goin’ to Aunt Betsey Baker's. Local Gossip HAR’S ben some talk uv fixin’ the road ‘tween Whipple’s Dr. Butterworth gut stuck She hed a spell come on an can afford to pay for the ex. periment. * ok ox The average landlord thinks children are all right in their place, but not in his place. x ok * President Harding has re. ceived a stone theatre ticket said to be over 2,000 years old, The name of the show is not recorded but some of the jokes are understood to be still do- ing duty on Broadway. * ok ok Hope springs eternal in the human breast—that’s why new restaurants are crowded. x ok * Dr. H. H. Goddard, direc. tor of Ohio’s Bureau of Juven- ile Research, states that seventy per cent. of us are below the mental plane of fifteen years Which explains why _ they leave those movie subtitles on the screen so long. * * * r give her a dose o’ Lightnin’ Grease Extractor by mistake, ’stid uv her drops. The cur’iss part on’t wuz it give her consider’bul relief, an’ she perked up cnough so’st she wuz churnin’ when Doctor Butterworth hove in sight. He sez he wouldn’t charge her, seein’s she gut better afore he gut thar, but he’s threatenin’ the Seelec’men fer delayin’ uv him. Si z. the Doc’s gut so fat they oughter give him the Grease Extractor when he gut stuck, and Bill Swan sez he wuz too fur away anyhow; he’d oughter stick to the homeopaths. right. Two hundred thousand people planned to parade through New York on July 4th for the purpose of protesting against a law which has deprived them of their personal liberty. We trust that they were as * ok * Lightning never strikes in the same place twice. That’s where it differs from labor. * ok OK William J. Bryan recently re- fused to receive from a (To be continued in our next) successful in their mission as was a smaller group of men Western college the degree of L.H.D. Some marplot, it seems, told him that the letters stood for Let’s Have a Drink. * ok x A corset should give till it hurts. * * * Now that the movies have invaded Greenwich Village, starving free verse poets can get their custard pie at box office prices. * * * Socrates got his reputation for being a wise man from the fact that he knew in advance he was drinking poison. The modern couple at the altar prom- ises to “love, honor and obey—till debt do us part.” * ok * If you don’t understand New York, all you’ve got to do is to think of it as the largest small town in the United States. * ok * The Silesian affair does not necessarily prove the fallacy of the plebiscite. But Poland was thinking of another kind of Polls. who, on the same date one hundred and forty-five years ago, gathered together in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, with pretty much the same purpose in view. xk * A rattlesnake four feet, four inches long was recently killed at Glenspey, Sullivan County. The title of the largest rattler in Sulli- van County now belongs to the Frie Railroad. * * * How long will it take Jersey City to get back to normalcy? comicbooks.com