Life — May 27, 1926 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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Life’s Travel Contest HE fourth letter from Joan Kinley appears herewith, and those who read it T: refully will note that as usual she h, made a few mistakes in her desc rip- That's the tr le wil an: she’s well meaning but not quite bright. She tries hard to get things tions of Parisian scenes. t the effort is too much for her. Read all of Joan's eight letters (the first o 1 in the May 6th issue of Live); watch for the misstatements of fact wh in these letters; write an essay of not more than three hundred words “What I Shall See in and you will be in line for a prize in the Travel Contest ad the conditions carefully, RB f rs to this contest are 24th. ember that 1 to be submitted before Joan's return f This Is Joan’s Fourth Letter— Watch for the Mistakes EAR EDITOR: beheaded by Henry the Eighth, the D Well, I have been to Ver- nasty old thing! Thank heavens sailles, which is a magnifi- there have been no atrocities like that since the United States started cent palace near Paris, and now I'm frantically inter- directing world affairs. ested in all those ¢ We took the Louvre orful, romantic ladies like Marie Antoinette, Mme. Du Barry, Mme. om the run,” so I only la chance to see the high spots,” such as Fussaud and Lucrezia . the Mona Lisa and the Borgia who lived there famous picture of and who did so much Washington Crossing for French history. I ’ the Delaware, but [I did think my — particular y pick up some lovely favorite is Lucrezia post-cards which I shall Borgia, because if it | send you. I was greatly hadn't been for her the surprised to le that French Revolution the Louvre isn’t really would never have been a museum at all, but fought. I] only the Art Depart- And as for poor / / ment of a big depart- Marie Antoinette! I ment store. Your own— snatched from her and ., Noam. Kiker sent to St. Helena. \\e P, $, I also saw the room \ in which Mme. de la | shudder when I think = {| : \ | elt when Napoleon was how she must have Next week I shall tell you all about the devastated area on the Marne, and then | Vompadour wrote the JOAN WRITES THAT Decameron, a work SHE WENT TO THE that I have never read LOUVRE AND SAW go on to London to . i: THE PICTURE oF ‘ but which Tam told is - aa describe the results of WASHINGTON : ; ; this dreadful, dreadful very educational. Mme. ROSSING THE DELA= de la Pompadour was WARE, strike. The winner of this Contest will be pre- sented with a six-weeks’ trip from any point in the United States or Canada to France and England and return— with ALL EXPENSES PAID, FOR TWO PEOPLE. There will be a second prize of $250 incash, a third prize of $150, and a fourth prize of $100. Conditions NE of Jo cach wee s, comme June 24th rrors and tions of r and grammatic the Con st is In order to it will be sary to senc ¢ time the e¢ set of her letters (or exact typ copies) with your ion of each error Mainly marked on its letter or on Contest must con 9 AM, on 13th eived at any other time considered as competing in the Ml ans reach Lire June 24th o h your name ft-hand cor h essay and corrections to be typereritten or ¢ written; full first-class post to Joan K ison Avenue, N It is not to Lire in submit. The Contest is ope cept m rs of Lire’s st fe The ju wall be h of the edi- tors of Lire, whose decision will be final. In case of ties the prize will be given to cach tying contestant. —-—-——— > = comicbooks.com