Life — July 17, 1924 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 8) thing about the war to her was the way the bells rang the night the boys went away To the city by early train to July shop for a few vital neces- sities, and in the negligees I id encounter Emmy Anderson, whom can never behold without a feeling uilt, forasmuch as the wearing of rtificial orchid on her fur fifteen s ago decided Ted Tyler that she id be no fit wife for him, so he ot propose, and it was I who gave her the flower. Of course life with r having such ridiculous and ite ideas might have been none cheerful; but Emmy has never 1, and I do feel uneasily responsible her spinsterhood....To luncheon at Lido-Venice with Nora Blynn, and did tell me that when Dot Mitchell ted her for six weeks she would not hve known anybody was in her house, ch, methinks, is as high a compli- t as one woman can pay another. the Grand Central to meet Samuel, 1 I could not resist going to the »corn stand, so we missed our train, Sam's disgust, and from his goings- you would have thought that fifteen twenty minutes actually meant some- ng to him, Lay late, pondering many July things, and recalling the 12th statement frem an old hymn that earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal, I did reflect that there is naught to be done about a hole in the back of one’s stocking or a button that iddenly pops off the shoe. Abandoning such futile speculations, I did arise and uray myself against the arrival of Ililda Cross, always a most satisfactory suest, her discourse being both sensible nd diverting, which is a rare combi- nation, Hilda is the kind, says Sam, who can always think of asking, Are Continous music, Bubs ty: sy life. “Cock tleeshing—on the 19th Poor of } The BILTMORE ‘Orn 7 7 TAs if oY - a / The Spirit of Pioneering Impatience with present facilities, a restless searching for per- fect things—these have driven men to discovery and invention. They possessed the early voyagers who turned their backs on the security of home to test opportunity in an unknown land. They explain the march westward that resulted in this settled, united country. And they have inspired the activities of the Bell System since the invention of the telephone. The history of the Bell System records impatience with any- thing less than the best known way of doing a job. It records a steady and continuous search to find an even better way. In every department of telephone activity improvement has been the goal—new methods of construction and operation, refinement in equipment, discoveries in science that might aid in advancing the telephone art. Always the road has been kept open for an un- hampered and economic development of the telephone. Increased capacity for service has been the result. Instead of rudimentary telephones connecting two rooms in 1876, to-day finds 15,000,000 telephones serving a whole people. Instead of speech through a partition, there is speech across a continent. Instead, of a few subscribers who regarded the telephone as an uncertain toy, a nation recognizes it as a vital force in the busi- ness of living. Thus has the Bell System set its own high standards of service. By to-day’s striving it is still seeking to make possible the greater service of to-morrow. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES BELL SYSTEM One Policy, One System, Universal Service those beautiful flowers from your own garden? when the table talk is giving its dying gasp....This day I did cut the sleeves out of every gown I own save those which I am to wear on the street. Baird Leonard. Lazy Dew A ure lazy particle of dew Lay listening to the singing stars all night, Till morning found a sparkle shining through, Like music in a tiny drop of light. “YOU FORGET, MISS, THAT A DIPFER- ENCE OF FIVE MONTHS SEPARATES us” —Le Rire (Paris). comicbooks.com