Life — December 29, 1921 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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ce Memo. for F. P. D. We agree with F. P. A. in lamenting that there is no Mr. Dooley to comment on the Washington conference. There is some good humorous writing on political matters. nowadays, but it isn’t Dooley . it simply isn’t Dunne. —New York Evening Post. A Dangerous Radical Tue Muitarist: How do you think wars ought to end? Tue AVERAGE Citiz! Well, I should say they ought to end in Peace. Tue Mizirarist: What! Are you one of them pacifists? —The Soldier (Art Young Quarterly). When It Starts to Get Dangerous “How long do you generally keep your maids?) “Oh, until they begin to show how sorry ‘they are for my husband.” —Bulletin (Sydney). “Why so pensive, Ella?” “Wha-a-a-at!” Tue hero of the next war will be the man who prevents it. —St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette. gagement.” “I have just lost five million dollars.” “Yes; Mr. Smith has broken our en- —Lustige Blatter (Berlin). Expatriates Sing a song o’ sixpence, A bottle full of rye, Four and twenty Yankees, Parched and very dry. When the rye was opened, The Yanks began to sing, “We won't go back to U. S. A. God Save the King!” —Toronto Goblin, His Mean Fling “Who's the mysterious stranger?” asked the town knocker. “A musical comedy scout. He's looking for recruits.” “Well, he’s come to the wrong town We haven't enough good-looking girls around here to make a success of a tag day.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. Shades of Cyrus! Instructor: Frank, tell the cl the Anabasis. What was the Anabasis? Frank: It was—er—it was a piece of music they played on the Xenophon. —Nashville Tennessean. Dissolution Traces of many diseases have been found in mummies three thousand years old. It is only natural that people of that age begin to show signs of breaking up.—Punch. Lire is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, The forei i Breams Bui Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions. Title registered in. U.. Patent. Office, $5.00 a year in advance. | Additional postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.60 a year; to Canada, 80 cents. Back numbers cannot be supplied. The text and illustrations in Lire are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights addressed envelope. 1 ; not non-return of unsolicited contributions. n trade supplied from Lire’s London Office, Rolls. House, dings, London, E. C. 386-388 St. James Street, Montreal, Canada. No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by stamped ‘and Live does not hold itself responsible for the loss or Canadian distributor, J. R. Tanguay, in Great Britain apply to Lire, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Notice of change of address should reach this office two weeks prior Lane, London, E. C., England. to the date of issue to be affected. Chic a To Start the New Year Right — Resolve to Have a Good Laugh Tox Every Week A Subscription to ye Star will ensure this and give you its fun and bright- ie ness as well as really up-to-date information in {6 thes each issue. Why not enjoy the newest joke there when it first appears in Lire, and not wait until Dur it is copied (perhaps without credit) in some especi; other paper? Try it yourself for a year, or, Obey the sts That Impulse, and for a trial trip avail yourself tic of our ‘teh Special Offer room, houses Enclosed find ‘One Dollar (Canadian $1.20, Foreign $1.40). io oh Send Lire for ten weeks—to puncel contro Open only to new subscribers; no subscriptions renewed at this rate. LIFE, 598 Madison Avenue, New York LoS VA Co Waiter (in background): Kelly knows his business, all right. When a customer starts pickin’ up his change he al- ways holds his tray over him at a kind of threat’nin’ angle. One Year $5 Canadian $5.80 Foreign $6.60 64 comicbooks.com