Life — October 20, 1921 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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Why Brad Barker Owns a“Colt” — “You make an easy target, stranger,” I said ND could you really, Brad, shoot a man—even a burglar?” interrupted little Mrs. Harcourt, as her brother, the center of an interested group at the Country Club, was telling about the at- tempted Barker robbery. It was a question the others had on their lips to ask too. Bradford Barker was known as the most soft-hearted man alive. Now he laughed. “You see, Kit,’ he explained, “that burglar didn’t trust me as much as you do. There he was working away, making a selection of salable valuables, as I tip- toed into the room. “You make a fine, easy target, stranger,’ I said quietly, and as he turned his head with a jerk and found himself covered with my Colt Automatic Pistol he never hesitated a second. Up went his hands over his head as meek as a lamb. “No, Kit, you don’t have to go the limit when you have the power of a Colt to back up your commands. “No laws ‘or insurance can prevent my house being broken into and my goods stolen. This fellow came in through an open window and meant to go out the same way in defiance of law. But he hadn’t the nerve—none of them have —to defy a Colt Automatic Pistol or Colt Revolver. “You are perfectly safe, Kitty, when you stand behind a Colt. No one is going to tempt you too much to shoot. The result is too certain. “So you see why I own a Colt Auto- matic—the best that money can buy’— which prevents loss which neither laws nor insurance claims to do.” Your dealer will be glad to show you the various models of Colt Auto- matic Pistols or Colt Revolvers and advise you which is the best for your home protection. ‘They are made by the historic Colt’s Patent Firearms Manfg. Co. of Hartford, Conn., Manu- facturers of Colt’s Revolvers, Colt’s Automatic Pistols, Colt’s (Browning) Automatic Machine Guns, Colt’s (Brown- ing) Automatic Machine Rifles. WE to the Colt Company for “The Romance of a Colt,” a very interesting booklet which they will be glad to send you free for the asking. Sure Relief 6 BELLANS Hot water Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION Picture Contest Starts in Next Week’s LIFE. $1000.00 in prizes Dancing Continuous music. Bub- bling gayety; sparkling | life. Cool, refreshing — on the r9th floor of | The BILTMORE NEW YORK FOOLISH PORARIES An Attempt ‘to Forestall Curiosity Tue Visttor (on caravan tour): My good woman, do you live in this village? RESIDENT: Ay, sir. Visitor: And I everyone here? Restpent: Ay, indeed. Visitor: Well, you can just tell them my name is Frederick Smith, and that | come from London, where I am a solicitor. That lady there is my wife, and those are my two children, Thomas and Elizabeth. We are having a holiday and intend stay- ing here a week. We have hired the cara- van. Last week we stayed at Invercauldy Reswent: Ay, sir, I kent a’ that frae ma daughter who lives in Invercauldy, but she was sairly disappointed because she couldna tell me whit yer wife’s name was afore she was marrit—Punch. The Complete Guide These are the days of Continental tour- ists and the attendant guides, In Rouen lately a party of simple Eng- lish were taken in hand by a Maltese who spoke half a dozen languages with equal fluency and recklessness. He led them into the beautiful forecourt of the Courts of Justice and vociferated: “’Ere you ‘ave, ladies and gentlemen, all sorts of archi- tectures—all sorts. You don't know noth- ing about it and nor don’t I, so come on.” And on they went. —London Morning Post. Bluff King Hal A boy_in a Welsh school essayed to write on Henry VIII, and a London paper reports him as beginning thus: “King Henry VIII was the greatest widower that ever lived. He was born at Anno Domino in the year 1066. He had 510 wives besides children. The first was beheaded and executed. The second was revoked. She never smiled again. Henry 8 was, succeeded on the throne by Mary Queen of Scots, sometimes known as the Lady of the Lake.”—Boston Transcript. suppose you know Infant Curiosity “I've got to go home and lick my boy.” “Why, I didn’t know that was done now.” “It isn’t; but he’s taking a course in psychology and he said he wanted to know how it felt."-—New York Sun, A Soft Answer New Orrice Boy: A man called here to thrash you a few minutes ago. Epitor: What did you say to him? New Orrice Boy: I told him T was sorry you weren't in. —Chicago Herald and Examiner. Diogenes to Date “Pa, what is the duty of a dry enforce- ment commissioner ?” “To reorganize his weeks, my son.” —Brooklyn Standard Union. staff every two Game Always PreAcHER (solemnly): Rastus, do yo’ take dis here woman for better or for ‘worse? Rastus (from force of habit) : Pahson, Ah shoots it all!—Wayside Tales. comicbooks.com anc tru pro hin buy per stil qui cut up me fro WI pai oth out wa hig wa efh the pos Th out ma It an ani yei Th dre mo do