Life — February 12, 1925 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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« LIFE + The Commuters’ Hall of Fame Ezekiel T. Putter B USE his faith in mankind is so steadfast that regu- larly on the second and sixteenth of each month, when he hands the conductor an extra ticket, he remarks, “That's for he new cook I'm taking out. Got one that's goin’ to stay this John L. Ditterfass Because, in a single trip between Grand Manor and the city (express service), he succeeded in telling what Junior (That's my eldest”) said to Peterkin (“He's just three”) 1© | conductor, 3 brakemen, 2 men hiding behind newspapers, 4 bridge players and 1 crossword enthusiast, with no fatal- ities other than a revoke by one of the bridge players. Percy Philip Phelps Because, though only one hundred and ninety-four pounds, he has twice succeeded in opening windows on an Erie train. L, Tomlinson-Tomlinson Secause for eight years he has persevered in his efforts to get the railroad to add more cars to the 5:15, by steadfastly refusing to give up his seat to a lady. “I'll shame the road into improving its service,” he always says in a loud tone, so the women standing in the aisles will hear and under- tand his reason for remaining seated. Ethelberta Gantz Because she is the only girl in Punkchunk who has been ible to make the 8:08 every morning without bobbing her hair. Bertram Bloch, HE city is the place where people live until they have so much money that they can afford to live in the city. Time-Savers for Commuters FURNACE EXTENSION HANDLE ENARLES THE SUBURBANITE TO SHAKE DOWN THR FURNACE WHILE TAKING HIS BATH, Florist: Tuat’s a P. “OW, IS THERE REALLY A FLOWER BY THOUGHT IT WAS A MOVIE T ALWAYS Awake too betimes, and lay a-shivering, like a February zany, for that I could not summon courage to 5th quit my warm bed and pull down the window, the remedy, methought, being worse than the disease. Lord! the dawn’s chill blast or a tub of cold water is more terrible to me than an army with banners....At my ac- counts all the morning, emerging with so small a surplus that I was minded of the poet's injunction to buy hyacinths as food for the soul when down to two loaves, so, inasmuch as hearing Wagner amounts to the same thing, off to pur- chase a ticket for the Ring. Thence to the Algonquin for luncheon with Louella Parsons, her rooms full of the most beautiful pink tiger lilies that ever I saw in my life. And L. tells me that her child Harriet, who is at Wellesley Col- lege, has writ a fine paper about Katherine Mansfield, which [ should like to see....To a gallery in the afternoon to keep abreast of the trend in modern painting, and such a dose of it did I get that it was comforting, upon my arrival home, to gaze upon the photographs of my friends. Reading this morning in a volume of Gals- worthy’s plays, I did bethink me of the woman in “The Fugitive” who complained that her hus- band saw time instead of Beauty when he looked at West- minster Clock. Lord! I had no liefer be married to an oaf than the next woman, yet methinks it were better that a man catch his trains than have a fine taste in prints and porcelain....Hilda Cross of Providence to luncheon (Continued on page 30) February 6th comicbooks.com