Life — October 6, 1921 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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

LLE, LENGLEN refused to play in singles tournaments. Her motto, evidently, is “Doubles or quits.” aL Just about this time the football coaches are doing some tall hustling to make both ends meet. It is hard to look at a double chin and believe that beauty is only skin deep. aL There is a rumor current that wines and beer are coming back. The return of the prodigal bun. If a musical show takes off enough clothes in the summer it usually runs through the winter. All the world’s a stage and the Con- gressmen are the stock actors. JL JL r Thieves get $21,500 loot on Many a homeless rentpayer is doing as well as could be ejected. aL Oysters are good only in the months containing the letter r. The bootlegging business is good only in the months containing the vowels a, e, i, o, « and sometimes y. During the war, 62,000 French wells were damaged or destroyed. And, incidentally, one Eng- lish Wells got off scot-free. -L Real Estate Item—For sale, charming cellar with house attached. JL There are rumors along Broadway that the return of the long skirt will ring down tain on the best show | ‘THAT rainy Tuesday Bill Tilly met up with Aunt the eiriain on the " TE Pickens down at the Main Street Bridge, and im gut to tellin’ her erbout how goose greese cured his Fheumatiz, when he had it, where it ketched him and so in town, Knees (see latest fashions) on. are gone but not forgotten. UL gut The return of the long skirt at least simplifies the prob- lem of looking the whole world in the face. L since. Local Gossip But he took so long a-braggin’ that he begun to stiffen up, account o’ the damp, and much as ever he home. He greased an’ rubbed but fin’ly had Dr. Butterworth. He tol’ him "twan’t the rain done it. bit him. Bill is givin’ the bridge a wide berth ever JL Doc sez a microbe Long Island.—Headline. They must have got it from a Long Island roadhouse. aL Labor is going to find «ut where the banks get all their money. Maybe the walking delegates deposit their sal- aries in the banks. aL “Sunday comic supplements build up circulation’—.!, thur Brisbane. But they don’t make us laugh and grow fat. When Brother Smuts settles the Irish question, maybe he will come over here and tell us what to do with Hylan. L Said the hostess when tie refreshment hour arrived, “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.” The latest society rule is to laugh and chatter when you are dancing; but it all depends who is on your feet. | Miss Alice Robertson, Ok!a- | homa representative, says she LL “Well, it’s all up with me,” remarked the umbrella as the rain began to fall. L It is really a wonder there aren’t more dead letters, the way the mail trucks speed through thé streets. —L The sting of a bee is only a thirty- second of an inch in length. Another example of a little going a long way. Nowadays, who steals my purse has got to hustle to get there ahead of the land- lord and the tax collector. The beauty of bobbed hair is that it can be put back in place before the door to the back parlor is opened. aL After all, you can always count on the American girl to bob up serenely. Ishii is council reporter—New York World. Ishii really? LL Melancholia, says a prominent doctor, is often a result of biliousness. Very often the form of biliousness that starts out, “Please remit.” sees no woman qualified ior a disarming job. Isn’t this statement sufficiently disarim- ing to make Miss Robertson hersclf eligible? IL’ America’s wastefulness is exemplified by the fact that all breakfast foods were once good wheat. Marshall Field has refused to give ein- ployment to girls who bob their ha'r, use rouge or powder, wear short skir‘s, or roll their stockings. They would have saved lots of time limiting the announcement to the wor “No Girls Wanted.” nn ity comicbooks.com