Life — September 4, 1924 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 20) discovery of the venture, I should go to one of the great shops where I am well known as a customer, and ask tu be taken on as asalesperson until | should have gained enough to pay what I owe. My depression in ie matter so great, that I did try to ijole Samuel, who is taking a brief spite from his clients, to stop at home id converse with me, but he feigned isiness abroad and left me to my un- happy thoughts. Lord! in the olden ws when a man quit his fireside to go yout his own business, his women folk iad at least the satisfaction of handing im a sword and shield and knowing at he would soon be engaged in stir- ng combat in their behalf, but it is a ttle irritating when I, desirous of sam's company, have cause to suspect, pon his defection, that he is going no rther than the Union Club, and for » more serious purpose than to chat ith some zany like Si Bennett or Will Claflin. September A man in early to repair $n our gramophone, and after working only twenty min- ites, he did demand six dollars and lifty cents for his services, which I paid him grudgingly, speculating the while if oting for La Follette would do aught to mitigate such outrages. But as 1 have set down before, I have never found that it made any personal differ- ence to me which party was in power, the Republicans never having made gloves or stockings any cheaper or bet- ter than the Democrats....My friend Marge Boothby to see me, and we fell a-planning of our winter wardrobes, waxing so excited in our discourse that we set out straightway for the shops, stopping first at an inn to make a fine lunch off chicken okra, guinea hen uid a salad. | was at some pains to eat my soup gracefully, too, the brim of my new black hat slanting so suddenly that the spoon came into contact with the brim whenever I raised my elbow. Our venture a disappointment in one way, for I did not sce a single model for which in my present precarious circum- stances I should be willing to lay out a dollar, Baird Leonard. Cfr YOU «_Inissing this Juan? Fads) eer | y ipsrumee: Une br gon famous raat ‘Conns cost no more tha: C.G.Conn, Lid, 921 ONN ih ONN TIFFANY & GO. JEWELRY PEARLS SILVERWARE Quatity- A TRADITION MAIL INQuiRIES RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION FirTH AVENUE & 372 STREET New YorK Why Small-Town People Make Good in New York Because they do not spend their youth watching parades, and aeroplanes writing smoky advertisements in the sky, and championship baseball con- tests. Because they do not spend their ma- turity watching the streets being torn up, and the subways laid, and the ele- vated cars painted, and the derricks, steam shovels and riveters at work. Because they do not spend their de- clining years reminiscing about how wonderful it is that downtown was once uptown, and soon uptown will be down- town, and how residential and theatrical sections have shifted, and how goats used to roam where bootleggers now have spacious mansions. W. L. W. Postman: 1 WISH THERE WAS A LAW AGAINST SENDING SPONGES BY PARCEL post! comicbooks.com