Life — October 5, 1922 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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HE first hundred years of Prohi- bition are the wettest. aL In the midst of all this saying it with flowers, music, candy, ete., did any- one ever try to say it with paign—the certainly winning slogan, “Back from Normalcy !” aL Lightning recently struck a statue of Captain John Smith and cut the head What good does it do the worm to turn? He's the same on all side IL It looks as if the unions were goin: to call a general strike on the genera strike. plain words? aL A year ago it was the bobbed hair craze that was growing. Now it’s the bobbed hair. Se The Brighter Washington drive is gaining ground. There is also a movement on foot for a brighter Attorney General. aL The Literary Digest poll proves the people don’t want seeds from their Congress- men. They want raisins. aL A labor leader has been ask- ing who gave President Hard- ing the right to use the club on labor. Maybe the folks who gave him the club. JL Old King Coal isa very scarce soul. aL Clare Sheridan certainly made a successful bust of Rudyard Kipling. aL In fact, Kipling’s slur on America’s war record has started a din, din, din. aL There can’t be many solitaires left in that diamond-studded belt of Kid McCoy’s. JL Old campaigners for Congress are always familiar with the vital questions of the day. Otherwise they never would be able to evade them. JL Domestic cy HERES nothing more bewitching, I declare, Than you so neatly stitching Things to wear. No words have I to wheedle One so fair;— But please don’t leave your needle In my chair! " Perhaps if we hitched ou stars to a water wagoi *twould help solve that movi problem. = Rudyard Kipling. should bx clected honorary member o the Pan America Society. aL Montreal has just built a $9, 000,000 hotel. The reformers were Prohibition does prosperity. right produce A street vender in New York is selling Russian rubles in batches of 25,000 for a nickel But there are few buyers People are afraid that the notes might be counterfeit. aL Won't someone kindly tell Greece and Turkey that the League of Nations has abol ished war? JL It is reported that Kipling. on hearing the remarks at tributed to him by Mrs. Clare Sheridan, replied: “And | learned about women from her.” aL It is not enough that ice should be admitted to this country free. What the peo- ple want is the accessories. JL The next Disarmament Con- ference will probably be held in Smyrna. Soft drinks are sold at the Wilbur Glenn Voliva, over- seer of Zion, IIl., decrees that 500 feet shall separate male and female bath- ers. Whose feet, may we ask? aL The campaign manager worth his salt is the one who will copyright now— for use in the 1924 presidential cam- off. Evidently Pocahontas can't be as spry as she once was. LL We wouldn't need any ship subsidy if all our self-confessed Mayflower descendants would sail on Shipping Board boats. World Series, but not, as some of the ball players and umpires will testify, in soft bottles. +L China, says a headline, is facing a new civil war. Does anybody hap- pen to remember what became of the old one? comicbooks.com