Life — April 8, 1926 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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LIFE - Nes Peps Diary of March are March The Id come, brit I5th 4 do ing me they always, the desire to be wandering in distant lands, and why persons attesting their devotion offer to go to the uttermost ends of the earth to prove it and think they are saying anything sensible is always beyond my comprehension, For there is ne ing 1 should better like than to be consigned to Capetown or the ocean Islands on however haz- Singapore or ardous a mission, but Lord! it is now so long since I have ridden in a rail- THE MAN WHO USED TO SEE SNAKES COMES ON DECK AFTER SPENDING THE, FIRST THREE DAYS IN THE SALOON Way train that a journey to Forest Hills would put me all a-twitter. Greta Smiley for cast be- ol in which she did place her boy last down luncheon, greatly the headmaster of sch cause autumn has summoned her for a con- ference on how to proceed with the tire know! ze, but, after learning the tremen- dous tuition she did pay for the child to be tutored, I did advise her to let the schoolmaster settle his own prob- What, demand settli lad, who is disinclined to ac instance, if Sam stance of s which they for the lems, should his clients in have paid him to attend to? Had Ia child, however, who did not receive passable marks in his studies and apply himself to the advantages which his parents were at pains to give him, I should know considerably more than the reason why bef I finished with him, for I have no patience with the and the Stopped in all modern laxity pence upbringing of chil afternoon, my hushand having said b but 1 so long for his arrival that I felt like Butterfly’s “One Fine Day” be- A fine dinner of would be home ear did wa singin; fore he finally can mushroom soup, minute steaks and new asparagus, and then to the playhouse to see “By the Way,” with Cicely Court neidge, the best revue that ever I saw life, and the first piece It seen this se rned out te as good as people had said it was in my on which March Aw 2K* 16th long: ing for an orange firm and juicy 3 i in the but I did ¢ to slice the we had, and best one after sprinkling it from the handsome sugar shak er which Frank and Esther Adams did give me, I made out very well indeed. My sables home, bravely refurbished, m the furrier’s, but in’ the process of renovation dear little Ca did sacrifice his head, so that now only the eyes of Po! re gard me pathetically when T make my self brave phe once it was a wom: if we would din week in April, t not, intend to accept invita about the a-ringing all with her the second ut 1 told her we would do I ¢ than forasmuch as never again ms me a few days or hours in advance, hav ing pledged myself inextricably many times this season to th which, at the last moment, I had liefer die than go. I find, too, as the shadows begin to lengthen I have less and less inclination to converse with strangers whom I never expect or and sometimes | find myself paying no heed soever to care to see ag what one of them is saying to me and at some pains to catch at from which to weave sponses. [have (Ce my own r ed on pa “WHAT THEY UTLAND! SI TRAFFIC THIS CO —'’ comicbooks.com