Life — November 10, 1921 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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CCORDING to the Ku Klux price- list, only ten dollars is required to obtain the night hood in this country. Opera would be better off if the audi- ences were only on time when the notes are due. aL In Warsaw a shoe shine costs An operation upon a woman patient in a Kentucky hospital resulted in the dis- covery of five silver teaspoons in her stomach. Had it been a round half-dozen, she might have been given away as a pre- mium with something. The Spanish have the Moroccan tribes- men under control. Got their Arabic numerals, so to speak. aL Sociologists tell us that inferior people gradually supplant the superior. In that case pretty soon there will be no- body in the United States but politictans. 2,000 rubles. That is what they must mean by the Polish problem, aL The New York City Dock De- partment demands the right to be tried by a council of its piers. aL The Japanese idea seems to be that we must acknowledge their equality or they'll proceed to demonstrate their supe- riority. ‘ a Nowadays a man pays more to have the ashes hauled away than he used to pay for the coal. il. Adding a word to the well- known motto of the circus, the Arms Conference at Washing- ton might be advertised as the Greatest Show-down on Earti. aL We've tried ’em all, but still find that there is a lot of dif- ference in the beers—Pabst and present. aL aL No woman has yet attended any disarmament conference. —News Item. How about the Venus de Mil JL “I want to say that every true American is a patriot whether he belongs to some labor or- ganization or is just an ordi- nary citizen.”—J. J. Pershing. True, General; but still, as be- tween the two, give us the or- dinary citizen. aL The French Minister of Fine Arts bestowed upon Charlie Chaplin the decoration of Of- ficer of Public Instruction, pinning in his buttonhole the ribbon of the order. This decoration, while a flat- terigg honor, makes less splash than the Order of the Custard Pastry, which is pinned upon the face. aL “More peppermints are eaten in Glasgow on Sundays than in any other town in the We wish to correct an impres- sion that the Gainsborough painting, “The Blue Boy,” which is coming to America, is a portrait of Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts. L Nowadays it’s a wise man who doesn't wait for his ship to come in. He goes outside the three-mile limit to meet it. aL Prophets of a hard winter point out that the Smith Brothers are hoarding cough- drops and growing a heavy coat of fur. aL Some confusion is arising on the part of persons who think the Sexcentenary of Dante is only a new novel by Elinor Glyn, Mrs. Hatterson (showing her house): taste. You see, we moved in so quickly. Mrs. Catterson (sympathetically): I know just how it is, my dear—you had no time to consult anyone else. The rector of St. Mark’s, New York City, has installed a mechanism by which colored lights supplement the pulpit discourse, changing hues with the preacher’s mood. Blue will be the prevailing shade when the collection is taken up. LL By the latest count, there are more than 280,000 illiterates in New York City, so just why the theatrical season isn’t better is pretty hard to under- stand. It isn’t all in world,” says a_ well-known manufacturer. There’s a—hic !—reason. JL Due to treatment by a Boston specialist, former Senator Gore of Oklahoma, sightless since ¢ youth, is “seeing flashes of light.” Would that the whole United States Senate might consult that specialist! JL Now that the Agricultural bloc in the Senate has made a successful debut. other blocs will doubtless follow. There should be no difficulty about finding leaders, The ranks of politics are full of potential bloc-heads, comicbooks.com