Life — March 16, 1922 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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ole re MONT noe Nobody Raided Henry From the report of a liquor case in a Richmond (Va.) paper: “Yes, sir, he says Henry were making $200 ev’y week, and he didn’t pay but $40 protection. “Las’ Monday a federal prohibition of- ficer came and say: ‘You has got to move out, ‘cause I gwine ter raid you on Wed- nesday, and I don’t want to find no ey-i- dence here.’ “Henry say, ‘I pay $40 a week for pro- tection, and protection I’se gwine to git and don’t you touch nothin’ in dis here house.’ “And Henry say didn’t nobody raid him!"—Literary Digest. Conscience. Guides A man who had his purse stolen in a crowd received this letter one day: “Sir, I stoal youre munny. Remauss is noring me, so I send sum of it back to you. Wen it nors again I will send sum more.” —Pearson’s Weekly (London). ; 7 First Lady: If Winter Comes— ais “You can notice the days getting longer already,” said the suburban philosopher. “Right you are,” said his neighbor. “An- other month, and we'll be able to stand out at night and wait for a car by daytight.” —Toronto Telegram. like. | SHE (petulantly) : like an amateur. He: That’s where the art comes in. Jack, you make love —Boston Transcript. parlor.” FES ALWAYS THE LADY Wot did they run yer in for, Liza? Second Lady: Well, yer see, I was in the Blue Goat, an’ my lidy friend, she sez, “Just. one more, it ain't robin’ the trenches now,” she sez, a-wheedlin’ “Noblesse obliges,” I sez, an’ it gets in me throat, an’ I starts ‘sing- in’ “Land of ’Ope and Glory.” —Tatler (London). “Ou, Jack, I can only be a sister to you.” “All right, but you'll have to give me a quarter a night to keep_me out of the Thackeray’s Rhymed Review You have read Arthur Guiterman’s “rhymed reviews” of books in Lirg? Well, here is a rhymed review that goes back before there was any Lire. It js Thackeray's review of “The Sorrows of Werther,” which is Goethe at his sloppi- est: Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter Charlotte was a married lady, And a moral man was Werther. And for all the wealth of Indies, Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sigh’d and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter —Kansas City Star. A Dignified Silence Tue INTERVIEWER: And please, what have you to say on the subject of anony mous letters? Tue Great Man: Stupid missives! | admit I invariably read anonymous letters —but I never answer them. —L Illustration (Paris) Expert Opinion A much advertised British film is stated to have cost £20,000 to produce. An Amer- ican expert declares, however, that. this figure has been greatly under-exagverated —Cornell Widow. —Passing Show (London). Lire_is published: every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, at Britain, Canada and British Possessions. Title registered in U. S ‘atent Office. $5.00 a_y advance. 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