Life — April 16, 1925 — page 8: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

GITATION has started for a birth control law, and it is Ouiver Her- Foro's fervent hope that they will make it retroactive. J Joux Lenxrotu, of Worcester, Mas cently underwent his cighty-cighth operation —having probably ex- hausted the previous eighty-seven as jects for conversation, 1" One of these days Mr. Lenrotit will take up golf and make a hole in one, and then he will have something to talk about. at The saxophone, a dispatch from Glas- gow, is driving the bagpipe out of busi- ness. Proving that it’s an ill wind instrument that blows nobody any good. aL The man who manu- factured Mah Jong charms for milady’: bracelet and then went into the selling crossword puzzle fabric for mi- lady's dress has at last learned what the phrase, “a drug on the market,” really means. a Kiel’ Han’: ve He is not licked yet, however. He hopes to start another craze for bead necklaces so that he can unload some of the Coué that are cluttering up his + Tee sub- business of Rosaries stockroom. aL A current fashion for women is bare legs with evening dress, but we feel sure that stockings still have their sup- porters, JL The Teapot Dome case has been post- poned again, and will doubtless have to wait until the final settlement of that Isle of Pines Treaty which was sub- mitted to the Senate for investigation in 1904. a A Wisconsin professor and ten fisher- ? LITTLE WATERMELONS ALLIGATOR PEARS? men, shipwrecked in Mexico, were held for two days on the charge of fili bustering. They were probably mis- taken for Wisconsin Senators. Dangerous Radicalism “War IS HELL en, Sherman. “Let Us HAVE PEACE.” Gen, Grant. BLAC BE TELLING ME NENT DAT DEM YALLER BANANAS IS GIRAFFE PEACHES. yet “Analysis Shows Bootleg Whisky Is Slow Poison,” says a headline in the New York Sun. Well, as the top sergeant said to the scared rookie just before going over the top: “Do you want tu live forever?” iL The French Govern- ment intends to en- force the law against the sale of lewd post- cards—which will be good news to Ameri- can tourists who have been staying at home lately because every- thing in Europe is too darned legal. JL aviators thousand open’ Two dropped a feet before their parachutes to prove that a person falling from a great height does not lose Unfortu- nately theeffort proved nothing, as the aviators failed to show that they had not lost their senses before trying it JL Slogan for the war in the air: “Don’t para- chute till you sce the whites of their eyes.” JL A temple in’ Peru which begun 10,000 years ago has been com- Evidently it is heing built by popular subscription. have his sens was And while we are on the subject—the world’s largest. cathedral organ, in Passau, Bavaria, has 170 stops, which is exactly three fewer than the 5:17 Erie local from Jersey City. AL Vice-President Dawes gone to 3oston to talk about his Revolutionary forbears, and Republican leaders in Washington are fervently hoping that he will stick to his subject. has comicbooks.com