Life — April 20, 1922 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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A Social Service Worker’s Lament WAS a social worker \Vith my mind upon reports, I worked from early morn to dewy eve, I saved the poor from starving, I closed the dance resorts, I led a busy life, you may believe. perintended clinics e halt, the lame and blind, ed and measured children by the score; nehed them and I poked them y never seemed to mind, lways came back patiently for more. And I worked along contentedly With other folks’ affairs, I changed the social service with the Until quite unexpectedly And wholly unawares A doctor came who had the nicest smile. He opened up a clinic For the broken hearts of all, Oh, I became his patient on the spot! He said my heart was hardened, That it wasn’t broke at all! And that was all the sympathy I got. And now he goes on probing hearts, Entirely unawares Of mine—his worst heart case’s little moan, And I—I go on minding All the other folks’ affairs, And hoping that some day I'll have my own! Mabel Cleland Ludlum, HEALTH axe’ Are you fit—vibrant with health and energy —smooth- skinned andclear should investlgheet Renulife Viol Ray. i iolet By elimi the ills of ape ing up bew strength asdvitality cleaves Yeusa 5903 IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN Canada: Pitt St., E, Windsor, Ont, SWITCHBOARDS TELEPHONES Breaking Construction Records Since 1920, faced with the greatest demand for service in telephone history, the Bell System has surpassed all previous records for the installation of new telephone equipment. In the last two years more than 1,000,000 additional stations have been added to the system by construction. This is equal to the entire number of telephones in Great Britain. In 1921 alone, 450,000 new poles were placed—enough to make a telephone line from New York to Hong Kong. The aerial wire put into service in the same year, 835,000 miles in all, is enough to string 60 wires on such a telephone line. 1,875,000 miles of wire, en- closed in 1,500 miles of cable, were added to underground and submarine lines in 1921. New underground duct totaling 11,000,000 feet was constructed, this representing approximately 300 miles of subway. 69 new central office buildings and im- portant additions were com- pleted or in progress, and new switchboards with a capacity of many thousands of connections were installed. This equipment added to the Bell System, great though it is in volume and value, represents but a small part of the vast property which enables the tele- phone on your desk to give the service to which you are accus- tomed. And to meet the in- creasing demands for new service, the work of construction goes on. “BELL SYSTEM" AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES One Policy, One System, Universal Service, and all directed toward Better Service The Dyspeptic’s Family ss OTHER, I’m going to marry Willie Smith,” said the care- less young thing, bursting into the breakfast-room at the early hour of eleven. “Why, my dear child!” exploded her robust and en negligé parent. “One moment. You're going to do no such thing. I don’t mind not knowing what he looks like, but I do mind know- ing absolutely nothing whatever about him— What do you know?” “Qh, he’s all right, Mother. I've in- quired about his parents and ancestors, his college and clubs, and his allow- ance and salary.” “All of which, my dear, are of no importance whatever,” answered her mother. “What I want to know is, does he ever think or talk bran or yeast or calories or vitamins?” “Oh, Mother darling, how could I possibly have overlooked that!” ex- claimed the careless young thing as she hurried away to telephone Willie. D. H. B. comicbooks.com