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

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= AUT SCISSORS Avt NULLUs Overworked Faith, but it’s dark in the mornings, Never a gleam of light, Save for the stars low-hanging ; Just for the world like night. Wirra, me wee white candle, Lift up your golden head! Doin’ the work av the big round sun While the rascal’s safe in bed. —Will Broom, in the Westminster Gazette. Poor Service She was in a telephone booth and had just put in a toll call. She wept bit- terly as she pulled down on the hook to attract Central’s attention. “Hello?” came Central’s clear voice. An Exchange of Courtesies One of the young bloods of the town recently invited a beautiful young siren of the merry-merry to dinner. She be- longed to that section of Broadway sisterhood classed as “beautiful, but dumb.” When the young man met her, he be- came gurglingly jenthusiasti “My gracious,” he said, “you look like a bit of rare old tapestry.” “You're not so snappy-looking your- self,” she retorted—O. O. McIntyre, in St. Louis Globe-Democrat, On Seeing Familiar Beauty When one says of a pretty woman: “How beautiful that Madam X still is!” it is as if one said: “Good Heay- ens, what a long time I have known Madam X! It doesn’t seem as if there'll ever be an end to it.” —La Vie Parisienne, So We Should A Chicago detective who remembered “H—hello,” she sobbed. “I w-want A FALSE START a criminal’s face has just arrested him my money back. Harold w-wouldn’t The Belated One: Pardle me, offishah, seventeen years after the offense, speak to me.”—New York Sun. but could you tell me if that monument Most people would prefer that sort of represhens the Four Horsemen of the Appikker—-of the Applokvcof the Ap. memory to that sort of face. Tantalus pok—hang it, never’ mind—bio—tell —Glasgow Bulletin. Tue Bootteccer (after a hard day’s me the time inshtead! work): If I could only get a decent “Passing Show (London): “Wuart is home without.a mother?” drink!—Pearson’s Magazine. “An incubator.”—California Pelican, Lire is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions. Title registered in U. S- Patent Office. $5.00 a year in advance. Additional postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.60 a year; to Canada, 80 cents. Back numbers cannot be suppli The text and illustrations in Lire are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights in Great Britain apply to Lire, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Lane, London, E. C., England. The foreign trade supplied from Lire’s London Office, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, London, E. C. Canadian distributor, ‘The Americas News Company, Ltd., 386- 7388 St. James Street, Montreal, Canada, No contributions will be returned: unless accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. Lire does not hold itself responsible for the loss or non-return of unsolicited contributions. ; Notice of change of address should reach this office two weeks prior to the date of issue to be affected. ESTABLISHED 1818 Arcs Diers CC@ELOTHINGS Gentlemens | Furnishing obs, MADISON AVENUE COR. FORTY-FOURTH STREET NEW YORK Telephone Murray Hill 8800 Clothing Ready made or to Measure for Spring Evening Clothes, Cutaways, Sack Suits Sporting Clothes and Light-weight Overcoats English and Domestic Hats & Furnishings Boots and Shoes for Dress, Street and Outdoor Sport Trunks, Bags & Leather Goods Send for “Clothes and the Hour” BROOKS BROTHERS Building, convenient to Grand Central, Subway and to many of the leading Hotels and Clubs BOSTON NEWPORT ‘TREMONTCOR. BOYLSTON 220 BELLEVUE AVENUE comicbooks.com