Life — February 2, 1922 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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DEPENDABLE, FACTS About A. B. A. Cheques —universally used by travelers and accepted as money in every land. —your counter-signature in presence of acceptor identifies you. —safe to have on the person because they cannot be used until they have been countersigned by the original holder. —safer than money, and frequently more convenient than Letters of Credit because the bearer is less de- pendent on banking hours. —issued by banks everywhere in de- nominations of $10, $20, $50 and $100. —compact, easy to carry, handy touse. . - because the world knows that theyare the official travel cheques of the American Bank- ers Association ...... TRAVELERS’ American A:B-A iinice, Cheques Ask for them at your bank or write for particulars to BANKERS TRUST COMPANY New York City We happen to know a_ bachelor mil. lionaire who was one evening going over a_ list of his holdings with a lnsiness friend, the father of two little girls, at | the latter’s home. “You are to be envied,” said the mar. ried man, in the course of conversation, “It is wonderful to have all this 1 y.” The bachelor, with a faraway look in his eyes, handed the inventory acriss the table, and, nodding toward one of tiie chil- dren, said: “If it is in your power, take all this and make me the father of that.” And he lifted the little girl to his lap | and kissed her with a tenderness strange | to his office force. —Richmond Times-Disp.:tch. Office-Boy Psychology Two office boys met outside the palatial offices of a firm that was reputed to be worth millions, and which employe:| over two thousand people. Said the first boy: “’Ullo, Dick! Wotcher lookin’ at the orfice wot sacked you last week for? Are yer tryin’ to get took back?” His friend sniffed. “No bloomin’ fear!” he said. “I just roun’ to see if they woz still in Answers (London). In a Pinch, use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE Better Sport re you still dreaming of owning a little home in the country “No,” said Mr. Gadder. “We invested the money we'd saved up in_a motor car. Now we can go out on a Sunday after: noon and raise such a dust, that the peo- ple. who own little homes in the countr: wish they were back in town.” —Birmingham Age-Herald. “The Mercury Went Down” Littte Girt (rushing into Doctor's of- fice): Please, Doctor, come at once to father. Mother’s taken ‘is temperature | an’ it’s gone down. Doctor: That’s all right, my- dear— | that's. splendid. it’s gone right down Punch, Tain’t all rij 'E’ve swallered Short Selling Talk One cannot evade the clutches of the advertising manager of the Muskogee (Oklahoma) Cimet. Says he in an an | nouncement on the first page of that jour nal: “If your business isn’t wort! ad | vertising, ‘advertise it for sale in the Cimeter.—Nation. War Will Follow Tue Microse: Who are the new bugs that just came into our milk can? Tue Bactertum: Probably some more strained relations—Stanford Chaparral. Our favorite pessimist is the editor of the Chanute (Kan.) Tribune, who thinks | that by the time Kansas gets good roads everybody’ll be flying. —New York World. comicbooks.com W S¢