Life — January 15, 1925 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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A WISE CRACKER O This Learning! HEY say that crossword puzzling improves your vocabu- ary; just think what Shakespeare could have done if he had known: emu, yak, Ra, Po, the Scotch word for one, the combining form of chlorine, the Greek alphabet and an Etruscan drinking-cup! asl KGa > PALM BEACHCOMBERS “WAIT A MINUTE, ED—HOLD THAT POSE. CAMERA-MAN COMING.” I THINK I SEE A Little Journeys to Big Towns Atlanta ATLANTA is the city where a pillow-slip is universally regarded as an article of headgear. When a traveling representative of J. Ginsberg, White Goods, steps off the train in the Terminal Station, even the locomotives hiss him. Atlanta was burned by General Sherman during his march to the sea, but what Northerners cannot understand is why it has been burning up ever since. Chicago also had its share of flames, but Chicagoans do not breathe into their children’s cradles hatred for the Widow O'Leary's cow. A resident of New York is likely to get the impression that there is but one street in Atlanta—Peachtree Avenuc since that is the only home address he ever hears given by Southern girls who come “No'th to complete theyah educa- tion.” He is also apt to conclude that teachers must have a difficult time instructing them in the three “r’s,” or even in one of them. Atlanta’s chief industry at present is making Kleagles. Among its other products are Young Stribling, labels for cans of Georgia peaches grown in Southern New Jersey, Jim Crow cars, colonels, Bobby Jones and Daughters of the Confederacy. In Atlanta's social circles it is still possible to talk about the war without being frowned upon—THE WAR. James K. McGuinness. The Money Loss UTHERFORD: Yes, ma'am; I have lost all my rela- tives. Mrs. Smit: You poor man! How did it happen? Rutnerrorp: They all got rich. comicbooks.com