Life — June 19, 1924 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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JUST A DROP IN THE BUCKET. Brief Poem in the Bucolic Vein RISE His lasting p He raises f And hell, a to toot the farmer's horn, e to sing milies, and corn, 1 everything ICK that hat pok But why are y old place for tion? Jack: Well I want it to sec a week ar It n like ve on a month, LIFE - Early Summer Fiction ROU. Five-pound bass Sleep under blankets ‘Din par Never have seen a mosquito. Drop in any time Wife will be delighted. An Improper Book AVE you home? Ii sc directory carefully may be in danger a city in your consider your name of disgrace proaching improper Inexorably, censorship is the city directory. A single ‘d may damn the entire work publishers of the city we Perhaps the directory have not thought of this, and wa: they should be thinking of n rs. Consider, to be- ing their subse gin with, the Gays, the Joys and the There is a looseness, Goodiellows. a shocking moral laxity in the merc mention of them. And th ut a starter. The deeper city directory the worse it seems in its su The trail of the serpent is everywhere. At we delve in estiveness a time when the ways of the young are most demoralizing influ subject. te ences, the gives prominence to names like Spooner, Pet ter and Necker; to Kiss and Kissen; to Hugg and H It is getting so that no parent with a proper sense of directory brazen ibilities leave a city his resp can directory around where his growing laughter is likely to read it As for young men in the formative stage, what it presents to their gaze is equally scands There are the Beers, the Rumms and the Weingartens. Booze and Boozer, alous. to say nothing of permitted in all their shame in the city ctory! Under the L's, members of the Lawless and Le themselves with impu sumptions of immunity Faithless to duty opportunity will ce ship be if it overlooks the irectory. It is a implied iniquity. city consider his name in all wise citizen will its moral or immoral as- pects, and apply to the ~ courts for permission to ~—& change it if the city \ directory is to be saved from confiscation A. HF, je “GRANDFATHER, RHEUMATISM Now for Fresh Air, Green Fields and Bread and Milk Galore NOTHER fortnight and, at Lire’s New x tummies Farms in Connecticut and Jersey, young lungs and from New York's tenem districts will be gorging with unaccus d luxuries. Fresh air and wholesome food will be theirs without stint Lire’s generous readers make possi ble this poor cl from New York's summer heat to the the close of last season's acknowledgments Fresh Air Fu the following contributions 1923 hington, D. 200 escape of the ren fresh air of the c Since antry Lire’s dd has received Balance from Seaso: Charles Long, W E. E. Scoville, Stamford, 1.00 Bryn Mawr 5.00 Sophie C! Hazlett ‘ Calif 10.00 . Buenos Aires, Ar 1.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 1,00 B. Kenney, Br Mass 10.00 nymous, “Phi hia T.. N.Y. City American Organist, NOY. City Keith, Des Moines, Towa J. K. T., NI Y. City $100 Proceeds’ of ‘a fair and play given by Selby Ri Virginia, glewood, In. memot Elizat Strother, Garfen ¢ and: Margaret. Helen Lyon, En N. J H.-C, Hawkins, Mexico y K. Rake, Philadelphia Robert C. Terrill, N.Y. City JR. T. N.Y, City s K. O. Brigham, Cooperstown. N.Y 3.00 In__memory of Lieut. Kenneth ckens Culbert “From M. and D.,.” Poughkeepsie Ward Twichell, N.Y. City From a triend, New Britain, Conn. Maurice I. Low In Memoriam B. L. B., Philad Douglas Merritt, John R. Metcalf, Erie, Pa Mrs. Juha F. Weed, ‘Binghamton. A. H. Reeser, York, Pa (Continued on page 33) 1 GUESS IF YoU GET CURED oF youR THERE WON'T BE ANY MORE WEATHER.” BAD comicbooks.com