Life — April 15, 1926 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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As it should be SINCE its extra cost, when spread over its billions of output, figures to but three cents per package of twenty, it is quite fair to say that Fatima, in between ‘costly’ and ‘popular’ in price, is decidedly more popular than costly “What a whale of a difference just a few cents make" Liccett & Myers Tosacco Co. —navsea, dizziness and faintness caused by all forms of Travel Mo- tion. Sea, Train, Auto, Car or Air Mothersill’s. 36 7%» & $1.30 at Drug Stores or direct The Mothersill Remedy Co. ™ [insisr uron | KEMP'S BALSAM | FOR THAT COUCH! From a Clear Sky EW weeks ago, during a period of unusual shooting stars, a farmer in Surrey, England, was ploughing in his field, when an object came hurtling out of space to plunge from sight in the ground near at hand With great presence of mind, and in loyalty to the Crown, the farmer ried to a. telep Scotlaj Yard if the Prince of Wales was miss ing. WHS. ar i to a How Like a Man! H 2 had taken her About Everywhere in their first month of acquaintance. On the way home one night he gently put his arm over the back of the seat “Goodness!” exclaimed the Dear Thing. “Don’t you men ever think of Anything Else?” Life and Letters (Continued from page 24) own as material for copy through be. ing presented by somebody who writes as one having authority, and not as the professional scribes. It is Mrs. Thom- as’s conviction that dwelling-places have an inanimate influence on the souls of their occupants, and the triple back- ground against which Evelyn Carring- ton's ry is unfolded is therefore done with unusual sympathy. mother’s old house in the House of Affections; the magnifi- cent Villa Said in Paris, where lived the bad but beautiful Aunt Lil almost ran away with the stor House of Pa Her grand- New Haven is who is the the Washington Ons 5 yare_ mansion to which Effie was en as a bride is the House of Love. The Paris part is perfect in detail and atmo: the re, and the burning « Paris Opera House stands out g cally from a number of we scenes Ez a woman who did the best she o episodes. Carrington’s story is that of 1 © according to her light and who, bec the beacons of tho: hi were more dim and fi , was forced to accept integrity of spirit as its own reward, But her life was lived in the mises en see bout which we all like to read, and Mrs. Thomas has done them with feeling and two qualities which a reasingly rare in our fiction ““CHAT FOOL OF A WOMAN,” by Millicent’ Sutherland (Put- nam), is a book which derives its ex- cellent title from the first and longest of the five sophisticated stories which it contains, The four last yarns are sketchy, readable things in the modern manner which need not be gone into here. But the foolish heroine of the leading story deserves special mention as a world-beater in having a fine eye for cads. I don't know which was worse, the terrible Freddie whom she insisted on changing from a passable lover into an intolerable husband, or orth who talked to her disrespectfully and had a flair for pretty young men. At any rate, they both came to the same good end, the subsequent Wentz after she had said farewell forever and handed over a few securities. The last time she saw Freddie, he was carrying a gold plate and stave in a Roman Catholic procession, and she encoun- tered Wentworth by chance when he was taking a solemn and serious part in an Italian festa. The only moral I could unearth from this tale of the feckless Chloe is that if you are going to be a bad picker, it’s a good idea to be solvent at several banks. Baird Leonard. asin eeee” Sonaeane comicbooks.com