Life — August 7, 1924 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Rastus: WERE'S DAT QUATAH AH BORROWED FROM YUH AST YEAR. Sambo; YUU DONE KEPT IT SO LONG DAT AH DON'T KNOW IP IT’S WUFF WHILE FOR ME TO CHANGE MAH ‘PINION OF YUH Jes’ FO’ TWO BITS. Nes Peps Diary Awake betimes, astonished to learn from my nurse that there is no pulse in the end of my second finger, nor in any one clse’s, for that matter, albeit I doubt the information will add cither to my in- come or my happiness. I am now suf- ficiently recovered from my malady to part with her, thank God, being in ill- ness like a dispirited rose thrown into a bathtub for revival—the mere sight of a doctor and a medicine bottle brings me right up....A letter this day from Lucy Bridgman tells of her displeasure with our cozen Amy for writing that she enjoyed her rest in Morristown, Lucy having moved heaven and half the countryside to provide her with con- stant entertainment. Which shows that Lucy docs not know Amy as well as I, nor would she have invited her at all an she did....All_ morning on the chaise-longue, watching my servant Virgie clean out our clothes-closets, shutting my eyes and saying, Throw it (Continued on page 29) Ballade of the Magnavox Populi At the papers are full of news Sixteen hurt in a street affray ; Senator Hokum gives his views; Crosses burned by the K. K. K.; The King of England's getting gray; The Prince of Wales is a trifle lar But the man in the street is yelling, “Hey, What's the score of the baseball game *” The Grand Oil Party’s got the blu Detectives raided a cabaret; The college profs. are on a cruise; The Mayor has left for a holiday The flappers are living the life tha:s gay; The flappers are getting a lot of blam But the shout goes up in the U. S. A “What's the score of the baseball game A man was fined for selling booze; A Ford upset a loaded dray; The cops have several hundred clucs A judge has given the lady a stay ; Sweden threatens a new ballet; Fifty bucks for a catchy name; But this is the ery since the month of May: “What's the score of the baseba game?) L’Envoi Prince, though candidates shrick and bray In and out of the halls of fame, The Voice of the People has this to say “What's the score of the baseba’ game?” W. L. Werner. The Post-Graduate Wife HE always has her home in perfect order so that when her husban comes home tired in the evening they can start out without delay. She is scrupulous about her appear ance in the house and can always luncl downtown any day twenty minutes after ringing her husband at the office. She has solved the problem of pre- serving her husband's love of home by keeping him out of it as much as pos- sible. Knowing how much depends upon her husband's health, she watches his diet. She sees that they eat in none but the best restaurants. What sleep- ing he does is in the most exclusive apartments. McC. H. comicbooks.com