Life — January 22, 1925 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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Prefers these cigarettes to ones priced higher ROM Stroudsburg, Pa.: “In my estimation, Reeds- dale Cigarettes are not equalled at the price, and I prefer them to some priced higher. The con- tainer is a dandy.’ ” (Original letter in our file) Reedsdale Cigarettes are 20c for twenty! They are put upin a new and specially designed pack- age that keeps them fresh, unbroken, and un- crushed to the last one. If not at your dealer's, ‘a carton of & pack: ages (100 cigarettes) ent for a dollar. Smoke one package. If not satisfied return remaining packages and et your monry Reed Tobacco Co., 131 So. 2 1st St., Richmond, Va. Inside Stuff The lion and the lamb had just lain down together, “As for me,” remarked the lion, “I should like to be called at 7:30 in the morning.” Said the lamb: “Don't bother to call me; I'l probably get up when the lion does."—Detroit Free Press. Young Ulysses He: I wish I had enough money to marry on. Sue (shyly): What would you do? He (quickly): Travel. —London pning N r BOUNDER WHO SAID “ATTA- poy!” WHEN THE GENERAL HOLED out. —Bateman, in The Bystander (London). LIFE OUR OOLISH CONTEMPORARIES > Reflection in an Art Gallery Even the dreariest “work of art,” Thrice-damned as it may seem, Was once, in its creator’s heart, A beautiful young dream. For each man maims the thing he loves In well-intended toils; Some butcher it in pen and ink, In marble some, or oils. hk Preston, in Chicago Trials of an Editor Typographical errors and mistakes often seem extraordinarily funny to the great reading public, but in the office where they occur they seem more like trage- dies. We recall that this old palladium of liberty, in an elaborate report of a Jew- ish wedding, once said that the happy pair were followed closely down the aisle by the officiating rabbit. That seemed very funny to the light-minded, but it did not seem funny to us, especially when the bride’s father came to see us about it—Ohio State Journal. At Any College Homecoming Day is the time when alumni come back to the old Alma Mater, criticize the furniture, freshmen and architecture of the house, reorganize the football team, weep mildly at the ivy, declare things weren't that way when they were in college, and express great wonder as to where the younger gencr- ation is going. Then it rains. —Colorado Dodo. Fur busy men and women—Abbott’s Bitters, a de- ehuful ten and lnvigorator-—eample by mall, 25 cts 5. W, Abbott € Co., Baltimore, M Absolution As the rector was leaving a temper- ance meeting, he encountered one of his flock considerably the worse for drink. “Ob, William!” be exclaimed. “I’m surprised to find you in this state. I'm sorry! I'm sorry—very sorry! “Well,” muttered the man, really sorry, I—I forgive you. —Weekly Telegraph (London). f you're The Eternal Masculine “George, is there anything in life but othing in all the wide, wide world —where's dinner?” —Hamilton Royal Gaboon. A Mexican, age cighty-seven, has been dynamiting trains. He is probably too old to catch them in the ordinary way. —London Daily Ni Pxonasty nothing gets so complete a work-out in this life as a small school- girl's first fountain pen. —Detroit Free Press. Watch your gums — bleeding 4 sign of trouble S sappers mine the enemy's decay in its most painful form, This gum dec Pyorthes is most ganic diseases fe. our out ve over fo The Crossword Puzzle Hits London There is little satisfaction to be de- rived from thinking of a word of two letters meaning “depart” and beginning in G and ending in O, or a word of five letters which means the same thing as H20. A drug, yes; but not an exercise of the intellect; not a test of erudition or memory; not a coping with the wits of an ingenious and obstinate opponent capable of the basest stratagems, the most monstrous syntax and the most dishon- est tricks. But I begin to grow heated. —IJ. C. Squire, in The Observer. When to Get It “Don't ask advice,” said Uncle Eben, “unless you has made up yoh mind and feels free to enjoy a little conversation.” —Washington Star. Ovr notion of a Miracle Man is the Welsh crossword puzzle champion. —F. P, A., in New York World. KOBLER AIR AND WATER PEARL PIPE PIPE g,freular pine aberbing 19% Nleotin, 85% Pyridia, 33% Ammoniae. Literature free. War Gam 9208S, Coser, Wet ee Tar, comicbooks.com