Life — January 5, 1922 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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ISARMAMENT —say it with Powers. LL Ireland at last has found a four-leaf shamrock. aL It remains to be seen what There are 20,000 taxicabs in New York City. Well, somebody has to do the hack work. aL Some people see only the big IFS in Irish Free State. Charles W. Morse Tambo and Em- peror Karl of Austria Bones will now rise and render their celebrated duet, “He Walked Right In and Turned Around and Walked Right Out Again.” aL A statistician recently went kind of ploughshare a shil- lalah will make. aL The newspapers report an “in- tellectual slump” in Europe. Anyhow, they had some place to slump from over there. LL The after-Xmas song: “Ain’t We Got Funds?” aL How many conferences will it take to bring about earth con- trol? aL Suggesting a League of Na- tions is merely starting to Borah trouble. aL The farmer who recently raised a prize five-pound cu- cumber must have found it a bit cucumbersome. “Space is, for the most part, emptiness,” says “The Outline of History.” Why, then, does Mr. Wells take up so much of it? -L The show business is neutral on the subject of disarmament, but just let anybody propose a dislegament conference! “Bless you, my child” mad trying to figure out just how long it is going to take Henry Ford to starve the horseflies to extinction. LL Orange trees have been known to bear fruit until they were 150 years old.—Answers. But the first hundred years are the hardiest. LL The ratio should mean that no country club shall be permitted to have on its walls more than five pictures of British hunting scenes; and no Refined Home be allowed to display more than three prints of Fujiyama. LL Russia before the revolution: Dictated but not Red. Russia after the revolution: Both. L “The German people of Chi- cago,” says an announcement, “have been one of the greatest aids in placing Chicago where it is to-day.” Still circulating that anti-German stuff. -L Lots of people seem to regard birth-control lecttres as ob- jectionable papaganda., aL aL Kittens are born blind, and so, these days, are tigers. aL According to the text of the treaty, it is prohibited to sell or convey liquor to the natives of the Island of Yap, but that ends the latter’s similarity to the Island of Manhattan. i es Every little reformer has a movement all his own. LL The ignorance of the average Eng- lishman about the United States is al- most as great as the average New Yorker’s. Japan is importing rice, but Newcas- tle’s order for 10,000 tons of anthracite had not been received at the hour of going to press. Seek to Abolish Sex Inequality—Head- line. It’s certainly time that the men took action. LL Tariff on Metals to Be Considered— Headline. Is it possible that the government is getting down to brass tax? John McCormack will have to i get some new songs now that the Irish have nothing to cry about. LL The world’s billiard championship, just won by “Jake” Schaefer, was once held by his father. The boy is evidently a chip off the old balk. LL The 1922 crop of income tax jokes will soon be ready. LL Watch for the announcement of the one-hundred-dollar Life Line prize winner—in an early issue. comicbooks.com