Life — October 15, 1925 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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

“coop MORNING!” “coop NicHT!” The Day the Chamber of Commerce Edited the Town’s Principal Newspaper ‘WO armed bandits to-day entered the new ten-story fireproof building of the Forty-second National Bank, reached by all Main Street cars, and after holding up the casnier escaped with cash estimated at $50,000, a small fraction of the assets of the Forty- second National Bank, which this year has shown the greatest gain of all such institutions in the County. The pair leaped into a waiting auto- mobile and fled down Main Street, on which improvements costing $30,000 recently have been authorized by the City Council, turning down Second Street and passing the new Art Museum, one of the show places of the city and presented by Joseph L. Gonnick, mil- lionaire bridge man. The bandits’ machine was seen on the outskirts of the city, apparently headed for Big Hill, the ideal vacation resort of the County. It is not believed that the pair will stop at the new $10,000 automobile park ground, which was planned and built by the Board of Supervisors of this County, and which has already been used by more than four hundred auto campers. Sherwood D. Tyrrell. Car-Shy NATIVE: Waal, how d'ye like it up here? VisitinG Motorist: try’s all right, but I don’t think much of your pedestrians. Oh, the coun- October Wakened_ this morning: ina great gloom, so off to lighten Sth it by looking for a becoming hat more costly than my purse could buy, being a great one to gainsay Po- lonius in this respect, and did find two of them, but Lord! whence the money to pay for them is coming I know not, my accounts being.in a more pre- carious condition than usual. 1 do not feel, however, that any woman in her senses should pass up an opportunity to provide herself with two distinctive pieces of headgear in a season when milliners are asking thirty dollars apiece for small black objects that look like tea coseys. To luncheon then with Mumford, lately back from Europe, and she did tell me of being at a bull fight in San Sebastian after which her husband had whispered into the ear of an old nag hitched to a fiacre, If you know what's good jor you, you'll get out of this town as quickly as you can. Walking home through the town until my foot ached me so sorely that I hailed a cab, and because I did address the driver pleas- antly upon some triviality of the jour- ney he, being an amiable foreigner, did converse with me on this and that over his shoulder, removing his hands so frequently from the wheel to ges- ticulate that I marvel we did not both end up at a hospital instead of my house. Bob Akin home to dinner with Sam, and I did tell them how Mr, Col- gate, reading in my printed journal of my broken vanity case, had sent me a fine new one, and how a Mr, Bran- denstein of San Francisco, learning of my difficulty in getting good coffee, had sent me two pounds of his own make. Whereupon Sam quoth, Whilst you are about it, why don’t you confess in public that you are not apathetic to diamonds and gilt-edged securities? Gladys October Eager to: be-tip and to do on one‘of my new hats, but a pain 10th i my stomach kept me to my bed, so dosed myself with my favorite mixture of lemon and soda, and fell to the public prints, and read that some judge had again awarded one hundred dollars a month for temporary ex- penses to a woman asking divorce from a man whose income is fifty (Continued on page 29) comicbooks.com