Life — June 21, 1923 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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Trafalgar Square London NE of the five famous ‘‘cabin’” ships of the United States Lines sailsto Plymouth, Cherbourg and Lon- don each Wednesday from New York. You can count on the regularity of these sailings just as a commuter does his trains. In fact, witha rate as low as $120 to London for cabin pa: on these unusually comfortable ships, commuting to Europe is almost a pos- sibility. Send the blank below today for full information. Passage may be had on first class ships up to $2200. A first class ship sails every Saturday from New York. INFORMATION BLANK To U. S. Shipping Board Infor. Sect. A240X Washington, D. C. Please send without obligation the literature de- scribing this service. 1 am considering a trip to Europe ©) to The Orient D) to South America 0. My Name My Street No. or R.F.D.. :Town, State. For information regarding sailings address Unitep Srates LINES 45 Broadway, New York City Agencies in all the principal cities US. SHIPPING BOARD Expert Advice The town hall was packed for the traveling melodrama, and the village audience followed the young heroine's tribulations with breathless interest. She was having a terrible time. In the space of five short minutes she was tied to a railroad track, narrowly es- caped being dissected by a buzz saw, and had been thrown over the edge of a precipice. At last it appeared that she was certainly doomed. The villain led her into a lonely cave and cast her into the presence of a huge gorilla. “R-revenge!” muttered the villain. “Oh, what shall I do? What shall 1 do?” moaned the beauteous one. It was too much. The strain could not be borne for another minute. Up rose a man in the audience and yelled in frenzied excitement : “Chuck him a nut, miss!” —American Legion Weekly. The Millionaire They are telling in Moscow a good story of a profiteer who sat in the best restaurant guzzling away regardless of expense. “How can you gorge your- self like that,” asked a friend, “when so many millions are starving on the Volga?” The profiteer took his knife from his mouth. “Steady on,” he protested, know what Soviet millions ar —London Daily Express. Business FaTHER (to son who has been taking a course of salesmanship): Well, my boy, what do you know about business now? . Son (who has the root of the matter in him): Only this—that it’s simply making people think that they can’t get what they don’t want. —London Morning Post. Happy Returns Jimmie was six years old, and his brother Charlie seven. Charlie fell ill on Jimmie’s birthday and missed the party, and when the younger brother came upstairs to go to bed he said to the elder: “Gee, but it was great! If you get sick on your birthday, too, can 1 borrow it?” —Karikaturen (Christiania). That's Often the Trouble He: But my dear, what is the use of my taking up fencing, instead of box- ing? If I was attacked I shouldn't have my foils with me! Sue (triumphantly): Ah! but you might not have your boxing gloves with you, either !—Humorist (London). A tor of trouble on this earth grows out of someone’s attempt to let his con- science be your guide.—Detroit News. Connoisseur’s First Choice Importers of Apollinaris Mineral Water Apollinaris Agency Co, ,503 Fifth Ave., New York It Pays to Advertise Rev. Dr. Howrey: My dear sir, I am a minister of the Gospel, and, as I in- tend preaching a sermon against the stage, I thought I would ask you for a ticket of admission to your show, in order that I might see for myself the extent of this great immorality. Manacer (to ticket-seller): Charlie, give the doctor a seat in the orchestra, and charge it to advertising. —Harlem Life. We Get You, Sir! Local ad—‘Furnished room wanted by a gentleman or partly so.” Partly so? Oh, yes—a gent. —Boston Transcript. TRADE MARK REO U seat oF Time to Re-tire? Buy FISK comicbooks.com