Life — February 12, 1925 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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The small daughter of a certain well- known actor had seen, and heard, her father rehearsing a new part, and after it was over she retired, greatly impressed, to the nursery, A little later her mother overheard her apparently rehearsing a play she was inventing as she went along. “My loved one is ill! TI must go to him!” There was a momentary pause. Then suddenly: “Blow it, he’s dead!" —Tatler (London). Less Than Nothing IxpiGNant Prop, (fo student): Well, if you're not sure of some points ask me questions on the subject. Stuvent: But I don’t know enough about it to ask questions. —Harvard Lampoon. Described “A hick town is one with a speed trap, a yeller brick gym, a Carnegie li- brary, an’ no sidewalks. —Abe Martin, in Indianapolis News. Absent-Minded Dog Lover: » WHAT IN THE WoRLD HAVE DONE WITH MY COLLAR? —London Opinion. A vote of confidence is the first sign of distrust.—Boston Herald. The Fame of a Husband Recently deceased in London, at the age of eighty-four years, was John Wal- ter Cross. And who was John Walter Cross? He was the husband of Georg: Eliot. He began paying her court when she- was sixty-one years old, a woman exhausted, not only from the heroic labor of writing the greatest fiction t had ever been written by a woman but by equally heroic devotion to a granile passion that had shocked two continents With George Henry Lewes dead, what was left of her turned to this same Mr Cross, who was nearly twenty years younger than she. Now, after forty-five years, his chief claim to fame is still that for a few brief months he was joined in wedlock to this woman whose soul was already dead. What a curious com mentary on human renown. —New York World, Who'll Buy? “Parrot (African gray) for Sale; talks, ik a human being; good reasons for selling.” —Scots Paper. What are the others ?—Punch. Tur perfect simile: As punctual as an eclipse—New York Herald Tribune. ¥e is published every Thursday Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions. Patent Office. $3.00 a year in advance. countries in the Postal Onion, $1.60 a ye: numbers cannot be supplied. The text and illustrations in Lire are copyrighted, in Great Britain appiy to Lire, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Lane, London, £. C., England. _ simultaneously in the United States, Title registered in U.S, Br n, E. ne dditional postage to foreign News Company, Ltd., 386-388 St. James Street, Montreal, Canada No contributions will be returned unless accompanied by stamped o Lire does not hold itself responsible for the loss non-return of unsolicited contributions, Notice of change of address should reach this office two weeks fr to Canada, 80 cents. Back Breams_Buil addressed envelope. For Reprint Rights The foreign trade su; ing: 3, Lond pplied from Lirt's London, Ofice, Rolls Ho on, C. Canadian distributor, The Americ to the date of issue to be offected. ESTABLISHED 1818 Bricks Ariens: C@CLOTHINGS Gentlemens Purnishing Goods, MADISON AVENUE COR. FORTY-FOURTH STREET NEW YORK Custom Department Materials for Spring ready February 24 BOSTON TREMONT COR. BOYLSTON PALM BEACH PLAZA Buns. County RoaD NEWPORT 220 BELLEVUE AvEwE comicbooks.com