Life — February 9, 1922 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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Corns Lift Off with the Fingers Doesn’t hurt a bit! Drop a little “Freezone” on an aching corn, instantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift it right off with fingers. Your drug- gist sells a tiny bottle of “Freezone” for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between toes, and calluses, without pain, soreness. Unbreakable Said the tramp at the kitchen door: | “Couldn't you give me a bite to eat, lady? I was born unlucky.” “Well, your luck is holdin’ out,” came the reply as the door banged shut. GertrupE: Well, anyway, George dresses like a gentleman. CrareE: Indeed! I never saw him dressing. Theatrical Manager (to boy in “William Tell”): If you must bite into that apple, bite the back of it only, please! —Fliegende Blatter (Munich). eR IE Lire’s Title Contest (Continued from page 12) Will Get His Next Lire for Nothing,” also that he is “Interested in Titles, Though Indifferent to Family Descent.” - One calls it the “Good-Bye Number | of Lire,” and the next says “It Will Be Continued in the Next Lire,” and one says “Lire Is in the Hands of the Re- ceiver. The cat shows up as a favorite in the race: “Nine to One on the Cat,” also “The Cat Has Nine to the Man’s Two,” and “Fourteen Lives in Danger.” Some explain “Falling Heir to His Father's Estate,” one viciously said “It | Is Lire’s Contest Editor,” and one says “Hallucination of a Home Brew Artist,” which bears rather hard on Mr. Irvin, The following titles were among the best received and were considered by the judges in making their final de- cision: “That's Lire All Over” “Without Benefit of Clerg: “A Tip on the Quiet” “A Midsummer Daze Dream” “In the House of Life, my dear, All is not so fair; Happiness is hiding here, Sorrow hiding there.” —Bert Leston Taylor. “Razing a Family” “Where Responsibilities Fall” Lire extends its thanks to the many thousands of readers whose interest and enthusiasm made this contest so successful. Statistics 667,897 people who have acquired Dominant Will Power by means’ of correspondence school instruction turn over and go to sleep again when they hear the alarm clock in the morning. There are 345,654,157,234 holes in the socks of the bachelors of the United States. & There are 897 cuckoo clocks in the state of Rhode Island, not including Pawtucket. Thirteen of these are in running order and keep time. 89,321 restaurants decreased their business last year by advertising, “We do our own baking.” There are 22,555 recognized philan- thropists in this country. Two of these are in the plumbing business. 483,078 cakes were baked by brides | during the first six months of this year, the weight of which exceeded the sum of the weights of all the ingredients used in making them. 48 men have made fortunes of over $100,000 by writing the words of our popular songs. Sixty per cent. of these declare they would have finished public school if they had been given a fair chance. ‘THE CAREY PRINTING CO. Inc. FEBR| WHITING -ADAMS BRUSHES For Household and Family re. quirements. Best quality, Jong wearing, perfect working. Ex. tensive assortment,—every brush needed for home life. Send for Illustrated Literature JOHN L. WHITING-J. J. ADAMS Co. BOSTON, U.S.A. Brush Manufacturers for Over 112 Years anc the Lurgest in the World phenomena, West Quartz Company, Bloomii Books Received Radnor Reminiscences, by J. Stanley (Houghton Mifflin Company). Vignettes of Manhattan, by Brander Matthews (Charles Scribner’s Sons). Lavinia, the Red Cross Doll, by Stetson Allen (The Stratford Co.). The Immigrant Press and Its Cor Robert E. Park (Harper & Brothers Here, There and Everywhere, by eric Hamilton (George H. Doran Co. The One Way, by Jane Revere Burke Dutton & Compai The Real Japanese Question, by K. wakami (The Macmillan Compan: Making Woodrow Wilson Preside liam F. McCombs (Fairview Pub. Cotswold Characters, by John (Yale University Press). The Inher:tors, by Susan Glaspell (Sm: nard & Company). Ceomer Ali, by S. B. H. Hurst ‘(Horper & Brothers) Chimneysmoke, by (George H. Doran Co.). Sure Relief Reeve aroling Drinkwater » May: Christopher Morley 6 BeLLans Hot water Sure Relief fj INDIGESTION CRYSTAL GAZING Ff amazing ton, I direct; stamp for price list and treatise on th’ FOR OF BRAINS IGARS ~MADE AT KEY WEST comicbooks.com