Life — March 23, 1922 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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Oj AUT Je159eR5, AN An old lady of seventy was rather tear- ful as she bade farewell to her mother, aged ninety-five, whom she had been visit- ing. “Good-bye, dear mother!” she said. “T hope we shall meet again.” “I hope so, my_ child,” replied her mother, briskly. “They tell me you are looking very well.” —London Morning Post. Quandary Motorist: You say this isn’t the road to Mudville? Then that fellow down the line lied to me. WAYFARER: he did? Hee-Hee! How d Mebbe it’s me that’s lyin’! —American Legion Weekly. One Word More “Have you given Jack his final answer 2” “Not yet—but I've given him my final ‘No’ "—Mass.Tech, Voo Doo, know An aviator intends to keep ascending until he busts. Once it was only Pike’s os ar, “No, sir, this Peak or that!—Detroit News. ALL MODERN CONVENIENCES “Twenty-four hundred a year. tor, electric lights, steam heat, tiled bath.” “Is this the bath?” A Country Place in the Sun An estate agent had been engaged ty drive a prospective purchaser over a larg estate in the West of England. 7 He was a young man, and had adopted or tried to adopt, some of. the Americay methods. As the car wound along th lanes he pointed out the parks anj meadows and woods of the estate, launch. ing out into panegyrics. Finally he gazed up at the sun and, way. ing his arm, concluded, “And there’s sun. shine for you! There’s a sun! Can yoy beat it?”—Tit-Bits (London). . Confidences Knicker: What do you think of th modern jokes? Bocxer: Oh, they are about the sam as the old ones. “Yes, and a little older, eh?” —Stevens Tech. Stone Too Bad Curent: I called to say that I f watch I thought had been stolen. Detective: What a pity! I had such: good clue to the thief. —Boston Transcript, The Soldier Bonus Tue Dottar Sicn: Goodness, if they put me on patriotism I'll feel like a rubk —New York Herald. Mill. nd that Eleva- room.” Paris). is the dinin, —Le Rire Lire_is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, British Possessions. Title registered in Additional Great Britain, Canada and Patent Office. $5.00 a year in advance. countries in the Postal numbers cannot be supplied. : 2 The text and illustrations in Lire are copyrighted. For Reprint in Great Britain apPly to Lire, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Lane, London, E. C., England. b> The foreign trade supplied sag Lire’s London Office, Roll: ostage to foreign inion, $1.60 a year; to Canada, 80 cents. Back Rights Fetter Hous, 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 exi addressed envelope. Lire does not hold itself responsible for loss @ non-return of unsolicited contributions. Notice of change of address should reach this office two weeks priv to the date of issue to be affected. Ih Cape Sailing direct from New York, June 28, on the lux- urious S.S. “Osterley” the Raymond-Whitcomb 1922 North Cape Cruise visits the most fascinating places of Iceland, Norway, Sweden Denmark, Belgium, England. Including North Cape, the Fjords, Christ- iania, Copenhagen Zeebrugge, London, with gen- erous shore excursions into the Glorious Northland. Rates $675 up, include homeward passage on the Aquitania, Mauretania or Laconia De Luxe “Europe” Tours Raymond-Whitcomb Europe Tours assure you of the best accommodations and comprehensive itiner- aries. This year especially; new treasures, battle- fields and the “Passion Play” at Oberammergau. Round the World Cruises ‘Two Round the World Cruises, Jan. 9 and 16, 1923, on new oil- burning ships, $.8, “Resolate”(20,000 tons displacement) of the United American Lines, and the commodioas §.S. “Volendam.” Send for the Booklet you wish, Raymond & Whitcomb Co.’ Beacon and Park Streets, Boston (NEW YORK-PHILADELPHIA~CHICAGO-8AN FRANCISCO-LOS ANGELES Paris London Eve: It’s all very fine to say there are no other women, but how do I know that during some of your mysterious ab- sences you haven't been experimenting with another rib? W (Sai I've st (Sai From A knc Which (Sa But v (Sa 1 won For a \ pre Like (Se H. pa and r husba whet! them, who their husba “Mot the s the wive: hire | and ¢ who noun revol at fe wive husb: with band their ceed toein taxi, shek prior band sical the their flirt band their with whei wive and their comicbooks.com