Life — October 22, 1925 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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BRITISH expert objects to steam heat in offices because it tends to make stenographers sleep during busi ness hours. Well, the girls have got tu get their sleep some time. Jt One in every hundred persons in th: United States has a criminal record according to the Department of Justice. And, luckily, nobody saw the other nine ty-nine shaking up those cocktai JL The Americanization of merrily forward Europe goes A Spanish bullfighte has been hit on the head by a pop bottle thrown by a spectator. at The California State Board of Health believes that the span of life may be ex- tended to one hundred and twenty-five years—which will be good news for the insurance companies, but bad news for those who sell pianos on the installment plan. at Picture the predicament of a newspaper reporter who is assigned to write with visiting Frenchmen, we think we prefer Titpen to Metton. AL Service in the Red army of Russta has een made compulsory for all those whe do not work. Over here we dispose of this class by sending them to Congress JL They are making flesh-color stockings in attractive shades; but the girl who doesn’t wear any has a shade the better of it, aL Those airmen all) the trouble they r Wast American who traveled way to Morocco in quest of must feel pretty jealous when id of the recent geings-on in gton. Jt Marshal Lyautey has “resigned with regret” from the French command in Morocco. The regret, we imagine, be that of the patient when the dentist says: “Well, ing about as genuine as you needn't com The assessed value of real estate in New York City is now $17,119,659,544, which gives the promoters in Miami detinite mark to shoot at a 5 It is news items like the foregoing that cause Methodist conferees to predict the ultimate yi destruction of N. York by a jealous God. Vast wealth is al- Ways a curse and a menace when it happens to be concentrated somewhere else. aL Whenever a clergyman, an evangelist or a lay reformer in’ Emporia, Kansas. utters a fresh denunciation of the wick- edness, the blasphemy and the nakedness of New York, seventeen Emporia ci zens telegraph to the Waldorf-Astoria for reservations. al The National Assoc turers is (or arc) to t this year’s convent is that noth 1 of Manusac liscuss taxation’ n, but our guess g will come of it. The only “discussions” we ever heard on the subject invariably started with, a snappy, original story on the John D. Rocke- feller's one hundred and twen- ty-fifth birthday. dt A new German dye company is eceasion of to bear the name, Interessenge- meinschaft der Farbenindustric Aktiengeselleschaft, and those who owe any money to this cor- poration will save time by m: ing checks payable to “Cash.” JL On the heels of the French Debt Commission came the Czecho- Slovakian Debt Commission, followed closely by the Italian Debt Commission—which leads to the conclusion that Commis- sions may come and Commis- sions may go, but the debts run on forever. aL In the matter of collecting our war debts, there seems to be something radically wrong with Mr. Metuoy’s receiving set. LL And when it comes to dealing MR, WILBUR DI RECRUITING SLOGAN ct away with murder,” and concluded, “Aw, there ain't no justice.” Echoes from Florida | MILLION automobiles. «mostly Fords. same....A 788 camps for twenty-five-cent room at nine dollars a day....A cold-stor- : egy and toast for $3.65.. The friend from Hogg Center. back home....All the golf trousers in the world. te down here and came without a now ses “Five years you could have bought that place for next to nothing, and now ++ The Native who prophesies and hopes for a quick end of the hoom so that he can be left - The all...has been in cent ago in peace staunchest Floridian ¢ the state three weeks... .Sun- burn....The unfortunate who did not bring his overcoat... . Fish stories....“I'ma stranger here myself. J. Lord, comicbooks.com