Life — January 12, 1922 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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Succinct Criticism The drama of treacly sentiment had at long last reached its too inevitable happy ending. It concluded thus, in the hearing of those at the back of the stalls: Hero (ecstatically): My Emily! HEROINE (ditto): My Jim! EXASPERATED PLAyGoER: My hat!! (Curtain.) —London Morning Post. The Calmness of Despair Wire (to husband): Alfred, now the cook is leaving! Huspanp: Well, we simply have to find_another. “Can't. We've had all there are.” —Karikaturen (Christiania). You Know ’Em Like That Cynicat Doctor (to chronic complain- er): Well, how are you feeling to-day? Is there anything that doesn’t hurt you? —Nashville Tennessean. “T Hear he drinks something awful.” “Yeah, I tasted it.’—Princeton Tiger. ANTEDATED Guide: This courtyard is a thou- sand years old. Tourist: But the castle is only eight hundred. Guide: Well, the yard was here be- fore that, wasn’t it? —Meggendorter Blatter (Munich). Hard to Imagine That all people do not have the same slant on humor is illustrated in the follow. ing story: One of the wealthiest men in Youngs. town recently said to a friend: “I had a funny dream last night.” “What was it all about?” the friend en- couraged. “I dreamed I got into a little Ford that climbed up a telephone pole, turned a somersault on the wires, and then slid down another pole.” “Well, that certainly was some dream.” “Yes,” the rich man exclaimed. “Im. agine me in a Ford.” —Youngstown Telegram, Privilege Denied A Bradstreet man was taking a Smith Center man’s financial statement the other day, says the Pioneer, and the inquirer asked, “Owe any at the banks?” “No, dammit, they won't let me!” replied the local man, fiercely. —Kansas Notes, Kansas City Star. A Heart of Stone Distttusionep Wire (to friend): Hus- bands! What wretches they are!! | brought mine a dowry of five hundred a year—well, my dear, he absolutely refuses to get me a thousand-dollar gown! —Le Journal Amusant (Paris). Lire_is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions. Title registered in U. S. 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 in Great Britain apply to Lire, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Lane, London, E. C., England. The foreign trade supplied from Lire’s London Office, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, London, E. Canadian distributor, J. R. Tanguay 386-388 St. James Street,’ Montreal, Canada. No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. Lire does not hold itself responsible for the loss or non-return of unsolicited contributions. Notice of change of address should reach this office two weeks prior to the date of issue to be affected. re i HQSIERY (forMEN TT say a man of forty is set in his habits. If true, isn’t it reasonable to assume that forty years of making fine hosiery for men precludes our making it otherwise? SHAW STOCKING CO. Lowell, Mass. THE HOLLENDEN CLEVELAND Woman’s Business § A Woman's Business today is no different from a man’s. Women are the sales repre- sentatives of great enterprises. They are choosing their hotel with the business man’s discriminating regard for service and convenience, anid in Cleveland they are choos- ing The Hollenden 2 comicbooks.com mou lent