Life — July 27, 1922 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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Revived Our favorite gag for the season, dug up from the files: “Say, Jones, how much did that fish weigh you caught last Tuesday?” ‘How much’d | tell yuh it weighed when I told yuh last Tuesday? It ain’t shrunk none, Bill; it ain't shrunk none.” —Richmond Times- Dispatch. Brother Anglers Two local fishermen who were re- counting their experiences on a trout stream to a crowd were receiving much applause when an interested listener dryly remarked: “Don’t cheer, boys, the poor devils are lying.” —San Francisco Chronicle. Not Ordered Waiter: Pardon me, Sir, but this bill —er—doesn’t include the waiter. ProvinciAL Party: Well, I didn’t eat any waiter, did 1?—Punch. “Have you read Ivanhoe?” “No, those Russian novels bore me.” —Carnegie Tech. Puppet. HIS LITTLE WIFE “Ab, dearest, how small is man beside the ‘illimitable sea!” “Yes indeed, Paul dear,—and I am even smaller than you are.” —Fliegende Blatter (Munich). The Ride of the Clans It was midnight. For hours the sheeted clansmen had been riding, rid. ing. Their destination was close at hand, The shrouded figures swayed wearily from side to side as they rode, The fiery black monster in the lead came to a snorting, panting stop. A darky appeared. His bones shook. Roll- ing his eyes, he shouted: “Dis am de convention city—half an houah to get out of de Pullman.” —Stanford Chaparrat, Descriptive A small Glenwood Avenue boy went with his mother to see the nature picture called “The Four Seasons.” In the “Spring” section was shown a handsome buck which had just lost one of its antlers. “Oh, lookie, maw,” the boy cried, “that deer is on’y got one hatrac! —Youngstown Telegram. “ANOTHER war? Don’t think of it; it would be too horrible.” “At any rate, it’s a thing I have no desire to see until a long time after my death.”—L’Illustration (Paris). CourtsHIP consists of a man running after a woman until she has caught him.—Boston Transcript. lane, London, E. Lire is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United Suates, Britain, Canada and British Possessions. Title registered in U. The foreign. trade sy Breams_ Buildings Vatent Office, $5.00 a year in_advance. Additional postage to forign News Company, ied countries in the Postal Union, $1.60 a year; to Canada, 80 cents. Back numbers cannot be supplied. diie, centrsoanions plied. from Lire’s London Office, Rolls House. lon, C. Canadian distributor, The sees Ors 86- 388" St. James Street, Montreal, Cana No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by stan a and Lire does not hold itself responsible for the The text and illustrations in Lire are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights "oM-return of unsolicited contributions. in Great Britain apply to Lire, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter England. to the date of Notice of change of address phente reach this office two weeks prior issue to be affected. loss or ESTABLISHED 1818 Lrvchs Drviher CCS6Le L LOTHIN IIN¢ Gé Gentlemens | Furnishing obs, MADISON AVENUE COR. FORTY-FOURTH STREET NEW YORK Telephone -ACurray Hill 8800 Tropical-weight Clothing for _ Midsummer Golf Tennis and General Country Wear Norfolk & Chester Suits Odd Jackets & Knickers in Homespun, Silk and Crash Flannel Trousers Outing Shirts, Hosiery, Hats Shoes, Sweaters, etc. Send for “A Box of Matches Containing 40 Ways to Play Golf” BOSTON NEWPORT ‘TREMONTCOR. BOYLSTON 220 BELLEVUE AVENUE BROOKS BROTHERS’ Building, convenient to Grand Central, Subway, and to many of the leading Hotels and Clubs out? H had safe tere dee that out! The “Ar him mar swe sha hav comicbooks.com