Life — February 8, 1923 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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The Younger Generation “Ah,” said the old countryman sadly, somewhat muddled by conventional grief and the beer he was sipping, “I be just come from buryin’ my poor old feyther; he were ninety-five, he were— - I only be seventy-four last Christmas. We don’t live to them old ages now-a- days.”—London Morning Post. The Infant Prodigy Lapy Visttor (as Tittle violinist pauses in home recital): What's he waiting to go on for? Fonp Moruer: He is waiting for the bus to go by. The vibration helps him so much with his tremolo. —Le Rire (Paris). A Dark Horse ‘ A horse that was. lost was found in the cellar of a house. Those who try to explain it say that somebody prob- ably had bet on it to do something else. —Detroit News. “Pa, what are the great majority?” “Fools.”—Answers (London), “This is terrible, John, I hope the Lord holds his protecting hand over “Under her, Marietta, under her!” —Karikaturen (Christiania). Falling Quotations There was a time a man laid down Casks in his cellar, two or three, And murmured to the luscious brown | Of sherry, port, or Malvoisie, “Grow old along with me But that quotation, cursed fz Is now completely out of dat: “Go, little letter, apace, apace,” Would ardently the lover sing, But now the pace that letters chase Goes quite too far, as you may trace When girls get publishing. So that quotation, wild and f Has joined the great majority. But, “Take, oh, take those lips Lasts (with the lip-stick), lor And, away,” you'll al- Ww > “Fly with me,” means more to- ay 5 And, “Wilderness” (with Gir eh?) “Is Paradise enow.” Some excerpts then, fe good or ill, Are Popular Quotations still. —Columbia (S.C.) State, | Guides, De Senectute _ Art Oxford they are talking of estab- lishing a college for old men. An Alma Grandmater, as it were —Detroit Free Press, — Lire is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, Title registered in U.S. Additional postage to foreign Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions. Patent, Office. $5.00 a year in advance. countries in the Postal Union, $1.60 a year; to Canada, 80 cents. numbers cannot be supplied. The text and illustrations in Lire are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights in Great Britain appl Lane, London, E. C., to Lire, England. Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Back addressed envelope. The foreign trade su pied oa Lire’s_ London, Office, Breams Buildings, London, E. C. News Company, Ltd., 386-388 St. James Street, Montreal, Canada. - No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by stamped a non-return of unsolicited contributions. Notice of change of address should reach this office two weeks pr to the date of issue to be affected. Rolls Hoa Canadian distributor, The Ameri Lire does not hold itself responsible for the loss BOSTON TREMONTCOR. BOYLSTON ESTABLISHED 1818 Bvihs Biber C@éLOTHINGS Gentlemens | Furnishing MADISON AVENUE COR. FORTY-FOURTH STREET NEW YORK Telephone Murray Hill 8800 Clothing for Winter Golf in the North or South Norfolk Suits & Odd Knickers and Trousers in Heavy-weight or Tropical Materials Flannel or Cheviot Shirts Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes Wool Hosiery Spats Short-Warms, Ulsters Pipes, Tobacco Pouches Travelling Rugs, Bags and other Leather Goods Send for “The Packing of your Luggage” ods, NEWPORT 220 BELLEVUE AVENUR BROOKS BROTHERS Building, convenient to Grand Central, Subway and to many of the leading Hotels and Clubs E thou not glest prac’ “and retur it. | ing t not } to fi mind “F lady For | whic whic Ar furtl grew mont launc up ca ably comicbooks.com