Life — July 19, 1923 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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FASTEN A FEATHER TO YOUR PEN— AND IF YOU GET SLEEPY AND START TO— NOD, THE FEATHER TICKLES YOUR NOSE WAKES YOU UP. SAFETY FIRST FOR TIRED BOOKKEEPERS July — Early up and off to see Lucy Bentley sail for 12th Europe, and whilst standing on the dock before the vessel pulled out I did bethink me of the seven and one-half dollars which I lost to her at bridge last night, so tied it up in a handkerchief and flung it to her, and the crowd cheered when it fell safe on deck. ...To luncheon as a guest of the Woman Pays Club, greatly struck with its sororal spirit and pleased to mark a band of women who are not trying to uplift or change something. And I did write in their guest book, but my name, in contrast with the flourishing signatures of D. W. Griffith and many others, might just as well have been a package receipt slip....Met up with Kate Mitchell and we to the Plaza for a cooling draught, and Kate did tell me of a new housemaid who sends her flowers, and demanded what should be done about it, the girl being a treasure. But life has some situations with which the books of eti- quette do not deal, so I could suggest naught but a raise of wages....Did on my new orchid negligee this night, and read till late in “La Garconne,” nor could I see why the author should have been rebuked for having written it, nor could Anatole France, neither, whose prefatory letter was the best thing about the book. July Off early for Tokaneke, to visit Enid Church- 13th ill, and found there Sally Smith, who asked me, almost before she had greeted me, if I had brought any manicure scissors with me, and when I said Yes, her face lit up with a great joy. But I en- joined her strictly to be careful with and return them, for Lord! I could more readily part with my jewelry, my bank account, or even, I do believe, with Sam than with this pet toilet article....Several women to luncheon, and we did play at cards, I gaining nine dollars. July Awake betimes, and at some pains to change 14th the frill on my Swiss frock which the zany of a sempstress had sewed in backwards, in- asmuch as I could not bring myself to place a diamond brooch over a large seam....The household in high glee over my demand for the newspapers, which it appears they never read, Enid saying she had always thought we be- longed to the League of Nations until she picked up a magazine whilst waiting at the dentist’s, and that the first news of Sarah Bernhardt’s death did come to her through a theatre lobby’s advertisement of a memorial fund. But I let them indulge their merriment, giving secret instruc- tions later to the chauffeur....All day on the porch at pleasant pastoral pursuits, and the beauty of the country- side did give me spiritual relaxation, but when they asked how I should like to live in so lovely a spot forever, I responded Not at all, for I do hold with Dr. Johnson that when man is tired of the town he is tired of life. Baird Leonard. Aphorism yo can La Follette some of the people all of the time, and you can La Follette all of the people some of the time, but you can’t La Follette all of the people all of the time comicbooks.com