Life — June 7, 1923 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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A Hundred New Surprises In This Summer Trip By A SCHOOL TEACHER es OW would you spend your summer this year if you were I?” friends ask me: for they know that I have traveled widely during my vacations. I reply—“take one of those great trips to Southern California—if you think it’s warm in summer, you’re mistaken.” Records for forty-four years made by the U. S. Weather Bureau in a great central city in Southern Cali- fornia show average mean tempera- tures of 66 in June, 70 in July, 71 in August and 69in September. Surely that is cool. And summer is the rainless season too, so if you go to Southern California for only two weeks you can count on two good weeks with nothing to interfere with plans. You have not seen your own United States until you make this trip. I went from Chicago through the great West—the picturesque In- dian Country—to Southern Califor- nia and from there back by way of San Francisco and the Northern Rockies, and that in itself is like a trip to Switzerland. But it is in the balmy sunshine of Southern California that you be- come entranced. The palm trees, the snow-capped mountains, the orange groves, the old missions, the desert, the ocean Southern California is the new gateway to Hawaii beaches, the big hotels, the canyons, the enormous moving picture studios, and the wonderful sidetrips by trolley or automobile amaze you. 4,000 miles of paved motor roads— think of it—and such places as they take you to! It is unlike anything you’ve ever seen even abroad, and I have been to England, France, Swit- zerland and Italy. There are a hun- fred new surprises in this enchanted land. It’s worth while if you have only twoweeks. Change of scene—that’s the great value of a trip like this. I don’t care whether you are in- terested in education as I am or what your particular interest may be. If you want the summer vacation that will make a new man or woman of you, if you want your children to be better educated as to their great Uni- ted States, go to Southern California this summer. Going in summer saves money for there are special low round- trip fares on all transcontinental railroads, between May and October. Ask any railroad ticket agent or mail the coupon below. You'll have the best time of your life and you'll never regret it, that I can promise you. You will find here fine hotels with rates, on the average, less than in most other sections, and in no other place will you find a wider range in accommodations. All Year Club of Southern California oe ALL-YEAR Cvs or SovTHERN CALIFORNIA, Dept. M-1206, Chamber of Commerce Bldg: Los Angeles, California. Please send me full information about the sum- mer and year around vacation possibilities in Southern California. The Joiner THERE once was a man who was a joiner. When he was at high school he joined a fraternity and acquired a beautiful jeweled pin, a snappy hat-band and a collec- tion of grips, hailing signs and passwords. Later, when he went to college, he joined four secret class societies and a fraternity. xe * Then he was graduated and went into business. But the joining habit clung to him. He joined the Ma- sons, the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of Co- lumbus, the Elks, the Beavers, the Moose, the Owls, the Eagles, the Buffalo, the Camels, and innumer- able other orders. And each time he joined a new lodge he acquired a new pin, and a new set of grips, passwords and secret signs. *** Then it came to pass that he vis- ited a big city where he was un- known. The day was a hot one. and as he walked down the crowded street he drew out his handkerchief and wiped his fore- head. Immediately six men, wear- ing the emblem of the Ancient Order of Camels, rushed out of the crowd, and exclaiming “Brothe clasped him in their arms. He had inadvertently given the Camel sign of distress. *** Not realizing what had hap- pened, and remembering all that he had read about footpads, and thg dangers that beset a stranger in a great city, he clutched his left breast pocket where he invariably carried his wallet. Alas, this was the distress sign of the Loyal Order of Jack . Rabbits. Seven other strangers dashed forward and embraced him. x ee By this time he was greatly ter rified, and he struggled to escape, but each time he moved his arms or his hands he gave some sign of some order of which he was @ member. And so, when the police arrived and dispersed the enor mous crowd that had gathere: about him, they found his body crushed and lifeless on the side- walk. x eK However, his funeral was the largest and most magnificent that was ever held. He was buried with full Masonic, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Knights of Colum- bus, Elk, Beaver, Moose, Owl, Eagle, Buffalo and Camel rites. Seventeen thousand lodge broth- ers in full regalia marched in the procession. N.L. comicbooks.com