Life — January 25, 1923 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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ROBABLY one reason for the success of Shakespearean revi- vals is that people like to go to the theatre and hear their favorite mis- quotations. The boy of yesterday wanted to be Of course, counterfeit money will be like Jesse James; his son wants to accepted for substitute coal. be a sheik. Tell the operator to put aL in a call for Dr. Coué. After all Mr. Hearst wrote about Lloyd George, Lloyd George aL Turkey doesn’t seem to agree with anybody these days. +L The House Bill to bar anony- mous letters from the mails should be followed by one prohibiting the suicide of uni- dentified persons. aL Everybody is in favor of beer and light wines but the boot- leggers. The National Theatre, of course, will breed its own race of National Ticket Specula- tors. LL That German aviator who prophesied that man would soon fly anywhere with only wind as motive power was be- hind the times. Bryan has been doing it for years. LL Beauty may be only skin-deep but that’s deep enough. aL If women continue to grow more active in politics Con- gress will hereafter be com- Senator James E. Watson of Indiana posed of a majority, a minor- ity, and a sorority. LL Woman's hosiery nowadays is just sheer nonsense. According to the Supreme Court a violator of the pro- hibition laws can be punished by both the State and the Federal Government. It’s a good thing we didn’t go into the League of Nations. aL Of course, if the Ku Klux Klan agitation discourages any of the advertisement writers from using K’s in- stead of C’s it cannot be con- is now writing articles for Mr. Hearst’s papers. Oh, well, in the long run every- thing comes out even. -L The financial pages show the tobacco companies in a pros- perous condition. Any other report in a season of many débutantes wouldbesurprising. -L History repeats itself. A hun- dred years ago robbers were put in chains. To-day it’s the one-arm lunches that come in chains. -L It would not be so hard to face a winter like that of Val- ley Forge if only we had more of the spirits of ’76. aL What is to be the surtax on this year’s income-tax jokes? JL Suggestion to the Ku Klux: Americanism needs no dis- guise. Yat Tien tes “4 L Germany doesn’t mind a little thing like an indemnit; what she objects to is paying J used to think that Senators the fare for the taxicabs that Were dignified and stately, saved Paris. The framers of our nation’s laws -L I thought should act sedately. In this era of sex equality it From prejudice and passion free, is difficult to realize that in Austere and calm it seemed to me Adam’s day Woman was only Was what a Senator should be, a side issue. A type I reverenced greatly. IL All is not coal that clinkers. But you're a different model, James, IL With quite a different manner, And at the art of calling names You win the bronze banana. Of course your picture doesn’t fit them in 1918? My senatorial frame a bit - But very evidently it . Goes big in Indiana. Just as a measure of the na- G. S.C. tion’s progress, it is less than a generation from the ukulele to the saxophone. These coal substitutes have a familiar look. Can it be true that we made bread with sidered wholly an evil. comicbooks.com