Life — January 4, 1923 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Things Pe! FE CWould Rather Like to Know F President Harding has begun work on his memoirs. KK What the U. S. bonus. stands “for in **K Why Dr. Coué doesn’t offer his services to the European situation. * KK If Mr. Warren’s profession is bootlegging. x RK Why Congress does not pass a law making it a crime to misrepre- sent the age of whisky offered for sale. *** Why some enterprising transpor- tation company does not organize tours to the scenes of all the latest song hits. x If Washington would have told a lie had he lived under Prohibition. xe * Whether James Joyce entitled his novel “Ulysses” because of the hero's or the author’s wanderings. xeK Whether, now that Miss Winifred Holt is married, she will take up Light Housekeeping. Why government of the people, by the people and for the people can't ever get along with the people. ae How cows that supply milk to the city make the grade. x Whether, in the dissolution of his law partnership with former Pre: dent Wilson, Bainbridge Colby was awarded custody of the waste basket. xe OK How the Supreme Court became convinced that the Bili of Rights was drawn for ninety days, and had run out now. xe * Who teaches lame ducks to mix whitewash. * How many ticket speculators have gone into bankruptcy since the Producing Managers’ Association put them out of business. *** How many hours of labor there are in an eight-hour day. *** Whether Mr. Tumulty, in advis- ing us to get back to the Ten Com- mandments, is quite loyal to the Fourteen Points. *** What Isadora Duncan thinks of the Anti-Salome league. Dividing the Spoils (A Bedroom and Parlor Drama) Act I Scene: Parlor of the Jones apart- ment. Time: 7.15 P. M. Characters: Mr. and Mrs. Joues. Mrs. Jon I shall expect you at twelve o'clock. If you're late this time don’t come home at all. I'm sick of these all-night poker parties. Mr. Jones: Don’t worry, dear. !'ll be glad to get away. I wouldn’t even go if I hadn't promised the boys. Act II Scene: Living room of Bill Smith's bachelor apartment. Time: 3:25 the next morning. Characters: Sam Jones, Bill Smith and others in the game. Smitu: That makes one hundred and sixty-five you owe, Sam. Sorry you can't stay and get some of it back. Jones: Well, you see, Mary hasn't been feeling well lately, and I don't think it’s right to stay too late under the circumstances. I'll write a check for that—one sixty-five, you said. I need what cash I have. (Writes check and hands it to Smith.) S'long, boys. Acr III Scene: Bedroom of the Jones apartment. Time: 4:55 a. M. Characters: Same as Act 1. Mrs. Jones: Well, what is it this time? Didn't I tell you not to come home if— Mr. Jones: I wanted to leave, my dear, but I was winning and I sim- ply couldn’t walk out on the boys. They'd think I was a cheap skate if I did. Mrs. Jones: I don't see why you couldn’t. How much did you win? Mr. Jones: Fifty, dear. I’m going to share it with you because, really, you won it just as much as I did by letting me go. Here’s the twenty- five. Mrs. Jones: Well, all right this time. Are you sure you only won fifty? Mr. Jones: That's all, my dear. Curtain CA. Gi 6 comicbooks.com