Life — September 28, 1922 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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Libellous Labels T had to do with a new hat. It wasn't so much the hat itself, you understand, but the principle of the thing, pr neipally the principal. I said (my wife is slowly « accustomed to my chosen name for her), “ a chapeau to adorn your brow, a simple matter is to thou, but oh, the difference to me! “Well, | have to have one, don’t I?” “Most assuredly. But think of what we both go through for it. And aiter you've put it on and adjusted it, and readjusted it, and poked it 1 it, right next to you in Avenue bus is a woman with another hat.” “Do you expect me to secure a monopoly of hat-wearing?” asked James. t all. But your hat’s in- lue is often out of all rea- roportion. How does the mw how I was able to get 1 all it knows, for all you may have held somebody trinsic \ sonable you probably did,” said And I'll bet I can tell you second and last names. furthermore, you are con- bjected to competition with hose new-hat ratio, honest lest, is four, six, eight to “Well.” scoffed James, “what would you do about it?” “James.” I said solemnly, “I'd label the bonnets. And on the labels would he the concise truth about their raison d’étre.” “Ridiculous,” said James, who is fast becoming a model wife. ‘As you will. Still, if the woman besi ide vu in the bus was wearing abird of paradise ticketed ‘Result of consistent short weighing in the shop of A. lloomberg, Butcher, month ending \ugust 31, 1922,’ what would change my seat—and remove nt from Bloomberg’s. But atic.” “So be it. stricted see what Nor are my labels re- to hats. 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