Life — February 14, 1924 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Checking Up on 1923 URING the month of J was busy compiling statistics, checking up on the promises that were made in January, 1923, in the public nuary, Live's Pessimism Dept prints. We find that one year ago the following items figured prominently in the news 1, The Inter-Allicd Reparations Conference opened in Paris carly in Janvary, with the avowed purpose of settling the German situation once and for all. Before the delegates had even taken their rubbers off, the thing had exploded in their hands Secretary Hoover issucd a New Year's statement saying that Europe was on the up-grade, that active war had ceased, and that he looked for a big year in international amity. Secretary Hoover could not be reached on the tele- phone last night 3. A sensational plan was announced, involving a Central Theatre Ticket Agency, which was to do away with ticket- speculators entirely and allow the public to get their theatre tickets practically at cost. See above illustration of how this plan has worked out 4. Colonel Harvey, here on a secret mission from Eng- land, denied that he would resign 5. The head of Lire’s Pessimism Dept. decided to keep a personal expense account in a little book to be carried about in the vest-pocket to be immediately jotted down, with a final monthly posting As cach expenditure was made it was and balancing in view. On January 11, he was seriously injured by being trampled upon in a subway-jam, as a re sult of trying to jot down a five-cent item immediately after going through a turnstile. On January 17, he was ejected from a restaurant on suspicion of being a Prohibition agent after making notes of the cost of his dinner. On January 19 and 20, he neglected to make entries, owing to the cold and the consequent difficulty of holding a pencil, and on January 24 he lost the little book. No reward was offered and it was never found. My Husband Says HAT he thinks the lacy valentines are suitable only for wers in the earlier stages, so he sends me flowers. I sometimes wish he would give me bonbons instead, for he always sends flowers the day after I do anything displeas- to him, and there are so few varieties that one gets rather tired of them He says that when he was a small boy you could buy comic valentines for a cent each and they had caricatures of the teacher and everybody He says they were the best work of Greenwich Village artists at their worst and a kid could broadcast a lot of con sternation in a community for ten cents. But I just loved the frilled ones that would pull out like an accordion and had verses like “The rose is red, the violet’s sue, my heart has bled for love of you,” and plump cherubs knee-deep in forget-me-nots I wish we could all have them back again. Don't you? L. Blanche Simpson A Childish Fancy “MARAM with this new process | can take ten years off your age.” No, I think I'll remain an a Don't IND LADY: Boys, boys! You mustn't fight you know this is Sunday Smaut Boy: Aw, shucks, lady, we don't belong to none of them labor unions - ( ARE THE | fy C¥noREN ( \\ aw |( STRAPPED \ THOSE, NEW BALLOON TIRES OUGHT TO BE A GREAT BOON TO MOTORISTS. comicbooks.com