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This page contains several satirical humor pieces and advertisements typical of Life magazine's format. **"On the Job"** mocks a Japanese journalist at the Washington Naval Conference (likely 1921-22), stereotyping his speech with exaggerated broken English and obsequiousness. The humor derives from his repetitive affirmations and sudden pivot to asking about "Yap" (a disputed Pacific island). **"Behind the Film"** satirizes silent film acting, where a producer instructs an actress to imagine roast beef to generate emotion—mocking the artificial methods actors used to convey feeling without dialogue. **"In the Interest of Accuracy"** presents a courtroom quip where a witness admits he's simply a liar, turning a legal cross-examination into wordplay. The remaining pieces are brief comedic anecdotes about marriage, Prohibition-era home distilling, and heredity. The page also includes a memorial notice for Sir Arthur Pearson, a blind British philanthropist, and period advertisements for clothing and digestive remedies (Bell-Ans for indigestion).

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—and with the opening of the Season, you will surely want this smartest, most perfectly tailored of all knitted Sport Coats. It’s new! It’s different! Wide selection of colors and heather mixtures, THE SHUTTLE MEADOW COAT Made only by the AMERICAN HOSIERY COMPANY New Britain, Co: ASK YOUR DEALER In Memory of Sir Arthur Pearson ADY PEARSON, the widow of Sir Arthur Pearson, who, blind him- self, a leader in work for the care of British soldiers blinded in the war, is here to raise some money for the Arthur Pearson Memorial Fund in England. Sir Arthur and his work for the blind were widely known in this country and were helpful here in the organization of the Red Cross Hos- | pital for the Blind at Baltimore. There will be Americans who will wish to contribute to this Fund. William Street, New York. SPEAKING of the bride’s biscuits, the first one hundred are the hardest. Sure. Relief 6 BeLtans Hot water Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION | lovers. | ter; look into his eyes. | ing affection into it that you can mus- ; then, be a true Briton. Their money | should be sent to Mr. Otto Kahn, 52 | month,” said the dry agent. | quavering tones, “open a can of salmon | for the gentleman.” | down the street with a cop friend who On the Job One of the first of the Japanese journal- ists to arrive in Washington for the limita- tions conference hurried over to the State Department and was taken to the office of Henry Suydam, whose business it is to re- ceive visiting journalists. The Japanese journalist bowed elab- orately. Mr. Suydam bowed with equal elaborateness. The others present were impressed and interested. “How do,” said the Japanese journalist. “Very pleased to meet you—yes. Jap- anese journalist. I write for big Japanese paper. I think United States very fine country—yes. I think President Harding | very fine man—yes. I think Mr. Hughes very fine man— I think conference very good thing—yes. I write very fine piece for my paper—yes. What about Yap.”—Saturday Evening Post. Behind the Film Scene: A cinema studio. The producer is raging up and down before two stolid “Now, Madam, that’s bet- Put all the yearn- PRODUCER: ter. I want to see a thrill in it, too... . Good Heavens! Madam, that won't do. Are you an English woman? Yes? Well, Imagine that the roast beef has just been brought up for the Sunday dinner, and then look at him again !”—London Morning Post. In the Interest of Accuracy “You have heard what the last witness said,” persisted counsel, “and yet your evidence is to the contrary. Am I to in- fer that you wish to throw doubt on her veracity ?” The polite young man waved a depre- cating hand. “Not at all,” he replied. “I merely wish to make it clear what a liar I am if she’s speaking the truth.”"—Tit-Bits (London). Sticking to a Poor Story “You had a forty-dollar gas Dill last “The wife has—er—been doing a lit- | tle canning,” said the home distiller. “Hum, I want to sample some of the stuff.” “Wife,” called the home distiller, in —Birmingham Age-Herald. Poor Place to Begin HE (lingering in the hall): And, dear- est, ave shall grow old together, you and HER FATHER’S voice: Well, you needn't start doing it down there, need you? —Boston Transcript. Nothing New “Children think themselves wiser than | their parents.” “It’s an evidence of heredity. Parents did the same thing when they were chil- | dren.”—Washington Star. Emparrassinc Moments: Walking Watch Everlasting fe Quaranteed or Generations His Speech of Acceptance Tex Rickard told the other doy of a dinner that was given to old Bob |'itzsim- mons at a café in Fourteenth Street. The bunch got together and bought the warrior a huge, non-pawnable silver lo’ cup. Johnny Pollock presented it. After about the tenth whisky—they drank them straight in those days—Pollock fla cup oi the emotional old fell stared at the big and gleaming thing he glowered at Pollock and yelled dammit, you’ve gone and made n —Atlanta Const As the Twig Is Bent Proup Uncte: And what are ing to be when you grow up, Billy? Bitty (aged five): I’m going t airman. Proup UNCLE: going to be? Maisie (aged seven, sternly): ing to be an heiress. —Town Topics (London). And_ what is I'm go- “Wat's your boy doing nowads “Oh, he’s shirking his way throu lege.”—Princeton Tiger. h col- thoughtlessly puts his hand on your shoulder.—Florida Times-Union. NEW YORK Dancing in the Supper Room Tea in the Palm Room Friday Moming Musicales JOHN McE. BOWMAN, President "Twa: That But 1 If: Show An We | Pre To S Unle: Profe Ou Or comicbooks.com