Life — January 21, 1926 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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Ns Peps Diar yr December ‘At the publick prints be- 27th many women of the musi- cal world have their taken whilst stirring a cake, and pondering w much the surface would be smoothed were there a law times, marveling why so pictures of existence requiring all editors of newspapers and age on which it begins or on immediately magazines to finish a story on the succeeding ones, and were I a member of the Congress it is such matters into which I should look, and not into whether some unnavigable river in Ohio requires dredging or whether a gentle man from Montana has slipped up his interpretation of the Constitution. For Lord! is complicated enough, what with keep- ing the clean tubes from going Democratic, without on the machinery of existence silver and toot paste standing for evils of easy remedy. Then to sorting and laying away my Christ- mas gifts, of which, thank God, only had come from id as It is married Sheba two looked as if they a charity bazaar, and when I s. much to my husband, he quoth. indeed a dreadful thing to be to a woman with a Queen of complex! Whereto I rejoined that the same held in regard to a husband with Lucullan illusi¢ that Sam and my servant Katie between for I have discovered them have ate up more than half a yard of the Cervelat sausage which Helene Zinsser does give me every Christmas, and I did threaten him to take it down to my sa box next year telling how poor Jim Mitchell had ap- ty deposit Marge Boothby to luncheon, ared at a party wearing two waist- nd with a fixed idea of doing a ul, and had wh the drawing-room doing con- siderable damage to its adornments, bi how he led fas around balance en- not once losing his own tirely, Well, you know whom Provi dence looks out ‘for, Sam remarked Yes, answered Marge, and it is rather hard on he thinks of lamps and vases. I that Provic ghly of tesses nee more hi sparrows than do remember ing because the stage furniture Back to Methuselah” looked like struction work, but Lord! there are m in all of our lives which justify MR. NIBLICK CLEANS OFF HIS Abed a is da e cold 28th See rea ing descended to my thr and reading about Ninon de in a fascinating book called “Enchant- ers of Mer withstood the onslaughts of Lenclos and how splendidly she Time, 1 began to wonder about my own inevi le senility, albeit Sam assu that teething ring from a tree at body who received a Christ mas party has aught to worry over for some years to come. Yet even now | do get an occasional intimation of th shadows, for I do no ul lengthening g and nder the itions, and longer take any pleasure in dit dancing in restau ants save I most ideal and cone NUBBVILLE SPARK FINK CRAMER, WHO IS TAKIN’ A CORRE SPONDENCE COURSE IN TABLE ETIQUETTE, HAS BEEN FORCED TO DROP IT AT LESSON FIVE ON ACCOUNT OF THE GROCERIES. HIGH COST OF sNow lately I have begun to glance at the al pages of the journals. When I begin actually to break, however, I am that should he almost move¢ in writing any close friend or relative catch me wearing an organdie frock or dance old, is 1 in haling me befe For I do be lieve that as we grow older life takes trying to learn the step after [ am—well, say justified a committee of alicnists. » a richer and fuller significance, in spite of so much talk to the contrary and albeit I do not well see how I can in th ne in the fing that e than I have enjoy it r past, I feel certain note I shall do so. champagne cockt Sam home carly with Akins, and they ry to mix a without any cham- pagne after a formula had { a crony, both pains to discover how much: 1 from the c sequences k they overesti mated it....This night to the playhouse to sce “Hamlet” in modern raiment, en joying it hugely, and being certain, for the first time in my life, how it all ird Leonard. Evidence a that new neighbor of a friendly man? “I don't think so; I notice he has his own snow-shovels, lawn-mowers, rakes and garden he comicbooks.com