Life — July 13, 1922 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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Cause and Effect The amateur dramatic society was preparing for a performance of As You Like It. The dress rehearsal took place in a The Convert There is another story about a poet who took a Broadway chorus girl to the Metropolitan galleries. She gazed about at the fine paintings and listened to the inspired eulogies of the verse- maker. As they were leaving she turned to him and said: “Well, I ain't taken up culture yet but when I do I'll make it hum.”—St, Louis Globe-Democrat. Self-Revealing Moment Closeup of a modern youth when his biplane headed for earth: “Oh, Lord—if there is a Lord—save my soul—if I have one.” —Grinnell Malteaser. Mafiana Showing how new ideas take hold, Mexican so-called laborers are demand- ing an eight-hour to-morrow. —Richmond Times-Dispatch. Tourist (returned from abroad): Well, how is Congress getting on? Frienp: My nerves—Detroit News. SWEET MEMORIES “Yes... one goes with one’s sweet- heart picking lilies of the valley—one says a lot of foolishness—one gets mar- ried and one has seventeen children. And they call the lily of the valley a good-luck flower!” = —Le Journal Amusant (Paris). garden that was overlooked by a build- ing in course of erection. As the ama- teurs postured and chanted the bard's beautiful lines, bricklayers above them laid bricks, carpenters planed boards, and masons chipped stones. Towards the end of the play, during a pause in the rehearsal, a voice from the building operation was heard to say gravely: “I prithee, malapert, pass me yonder trowel.”—Pearson’s Weekly. The Punishment that Fitted A Kansas City court made a negro caught with a pint of liquor drink it all, and then turned him loose. He did it gladly, feeling as he went to sleep that Justice was the tenderest and most beau- tiful creature in all the world. —Houston Post. ever be successfully played indoors? West: No; you can’t lose the ball. Jew York Sui. In Ireland it seems that many a truce word is spoken in jest—Punch, Lire is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions. je registered in U. S Patent. Office $5.00 a year in advance. Additional postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.60 a year; to Canada, 80 cents. Back numbers cannot be supplied. The text and illustrations in Lire are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights in Great Britain apply to Lire, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Lane, London, E. C., England. The foreign trade supplied from Lire’s London Office, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, London, E. C. .Canadian distributor, J. R. Tanguay, 386-388 St. James Street, Montreal, Canada. No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. Lire does not hold itself responsible for the loss or non-return of unsolicited contributions. Notice of change of address should reach this office two weeks prior to the date of issue to be affected. LM A THROUGH eS FOLLOWING BUSINESS HE Continental and Commercial Banks are so organized as to be able to handle step by step, Nort: Do you think that golf will from start to finish, every phase of a banking trans- action regardless of its size or classification. It is such definite yet diversi- ) ; | fied service that gives to those ) i who deal with these banks the advantage of having their business literally “followed through” by a strong and ex- petienced banking unit. The CONTINENTAL and COMMERCIAL BANKS CHICAGO Complete Banking Service More than $55,000,000 Invested Capital Little Bobby’s mental Peay of how they'll get fat Aunt Emma up the Golden Stairs Hc TT cs comicbooks.com