Life — August 23, 1923 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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LIFE What is the funniest thing in life? No answers will he considered except one of the words of the question 3. What will be the end of any boy or girl who devotes his or her time to cross-word puzzles? word of three letters which rhymes with “glad” will be allowed. 4.- Will the lyric writers who fashion our popular songs continue to rhyme “home” and “alone” this year? The winning reply should rhyme with “gue Since there are 289 spaces in the ordinary puzzle of this sort, minus those subtracted for the conventional designs in the middle, the fact is apparent that there is no end to the apt and artful arrangements available. “Try it on your own piano.” Alfred Harding. To a Friend Who Laughs AUGH, and we'll echo laughter, Weep, and your friends weep too. Now, for all time and after— We are your vassals true. You are the King of laughter, You are the Prince of fun, Laugh and we'll laugh hereafter As in the days long gone. Laugh, for our hearts still hunger, Fain for your festal fire— We, who have known you younger, We, who have known you shyer. What though the world grows older, What though the tears must flow, THAT LEARNING-TO-RIDE FEELING . Laugh and our hearts are bolder, As in the long ago. Cross-Word Puzzles UNDAY used to be a day of peace about the house Since papers have been printing cross-word puzzles it Laughter is kin to loving, Laughter is friend to peace, resembles the offspring of an Edison Questionnaire and Laughter is home when roving, the Encyclopedia of Handy and Useful Facts, “Home” Laughter is life's, increase. is now only “a noun of four letters, signifying a place You, who are Lord of laughter, wherevone lives? Lead us to heights above, Scarcely are the breakfast scraps scttied, and the papers Where for all time and after apportioned, before the attack is opened by the question: Laughter shall dwell with love. “What is ‘a singular pronoun of one letter’? Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. It is a little galling to have to look in the dictionary to make sure just what a pronoun is, let alone those having no. more substance than a single letter. But peace in the family is even more precious. And then: “What naticn is so full of scraps and po- tatoes that it has given its name to a stew? And, oh yes, it’s got to have an I in it.” From that time on it is an endurance contest, with the odds all on the puzzle. We tried to get a measure of revenge by concocting one: but ran out of words and ideas long before we did our squares. There didn’t seem to be enough words in the dictionary beginning with Q X and ending in N M. So we have decided to draw up a few questions upon which the necessary information seems to be lacking, and ws 7 « then offer a prize for the person who can put them into a \ cross-word puzzle. 1. Are many cross-word puzzle writers suffering from > a mental derangement? The answer should have three “I AIN’T TH’ MAN I USED TER BE TEN YEARS AGO.” letters, of which two must be the same. “WAL, WHO WAS YE TEN YEARS AGO?” S Maui comicbooks.com