Life — January 17, 1924 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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© 018606562 FULL week has passed since the nnouncement of the Bok Pe Prize award, and none of the Navy Yards has shut down yet iL Statistics show that forty-five per cent of the people in New York are en ed in gainful occupations. We imagine that the others are buying oil stocks ae Coolidge probably feels about the Ford endorsement that it may not be much to look at but it takes you where you want to go. iL Nowadays a girl won't marry a man unless he can earn the family’s bread and butler. ae A prisoner was recently released from Sing Sing because he was a good actor and a number of theatregoers are wondering whether the rule couldn't be made to work both ways. AL Wayne B. Wheeler says that Prohibi tion has saved 873.000 lives. We didn’t know there were as many bootleggers as that! LL Leap year, we suspect, was invented by a Californian who wanted an extra day in which to talk about the climate. a London insurance companies have stated that people of to-day live ten years longer than they did in olden times. We wonder why. iL The pictures in the Sunday papers re mind one of last winter's resolution not to let another year go by without learn ing to pronounce “ski.” LL Master-Ser, nt Woodfill has been re- tired from the army but says he will fight again if there is another war. And if he will just give Europe a little time, we think something can be done x it up for him. ae wadays people marry in haste and repeat at leisure would be “Taxes—Lowest Rate LL The average citizen who has been un able to find a cook this year will doubt less feel terribly upset when he learns that there is a se tage of foot men in Eng L Now that a Danish prince has married the heiress of a lumber king, we may expect to have some decent safety matches at last L The fourth anniversary of the Eigh teenth Amendment will be celebrated on January 16. It would be a fitting tribute if some of our bootleggers cx be persuaded to close their places business on that day iL An agnostic is a person who doc know which church to supp. therefore goes to the golf club. Second Thoughts of an Office Manager DARK-EYED maiden, smiling, ing, Flitting in and out my Bringing dabs of correspondence That you should have bre fore, All your faults in punctuatic All the duties that you s! Lead me to the sad conclusi That your mind's not In your pretty head come Rosy dreams; and I can see That you'd fain give up dicta And go keeping house with me But my years have made me wary Honeymoons are quickly spent ; Iridescent bubbles vanish Then come butcher's bills and rent Would I toss away my freedom, Tie myself to you for good, Kiss good-by my independence ? Well, on second thought, I would! B. ¢.. ¢ comicbooks.com