Life — August 12, 1926 — page 9: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

1 L The Modern Answer “WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancho What art can wash her guilt away?” Though death once hid her indiscretions, To-day she scems to find relief In selling tabloids her confessions And making serials of her grief. Arthur Kramer. He'll Soon Find Out HE fellow who lives across the way thinks I am Toesits concerned about the leg decade. When I tell him stockings are a more important economic problem than farm relief he looks at me pityingly. He hasn't any idea of what it costs to keep two or three daughters in the front row on the Country Club porch. Ilowever, it begins to look as though two of his sons were going to marry two of my daughters. That means that the stocking bills that come to my house will be dropped into his letter box nex Then we'll see whether legs n academic subje They are a collegiate subject perhaps; but not academic. McCready Huston. Overheard from a Parked Car “DRE-WAR stuff, ch?” “Durn right. Smooth as oil. Hey, don’t tip it so durn high, You spill that on the seat an’ it’s li’ble to cat a hole right through the leather.” A MAN in Council Bluffs sawed his way out of jail + with a razor blade. It is some consolation to know that somebody else has a blade like that. “AND IP MOTHER WASN’T LEAVING DAD TO COME AND LIVE WITH Us—I’D LEAVE YOU TO GO AND LIVE WITH THEM.” £e SUST BETWEEN US GIRLS “AREN'T you simply MAD about these new tunes, n—I mean I think this ‘VAL y adorable, it’s so sort of THRILLING thing. I mean it sort of makes you w thing over and OVER which I think is ABSOL. . silly, my dear, I mean I ACTUALLY do, don't you REALLY? Bees I mean ANYBODY could write something like that which simply REPEATS the same words over and over all the time and I mean I AC ALLY don’t see anything IN it—I mean I think perfectly STUPID song and I get simply LIVID e time they play it, my dear, don’t you? But I think “The PRISO? Song’ is SIMPly divine—I mean I ACTUALLY adore it because it’s so sort of MELAN- CHOLY and everything and I suppose it’s REALLY classic or something, don’t you? But I mean I think ‘HOR absolutely the MOST objectionable thing I've ever, heard—I mean I think it’s SIMPly VILE because, my dear, it simply REPEATS the same thing over and OVER and I mean it SIMPly drives me MAD me they play it, my dear—I mean it ACTU- ALLY does! Of course I think ALL jazz is PERfectly DIVINE but I mean I think ‘HORSES’ isn’t a BIT original or anything because it simply REPEATS the same thing over and OVER which ACTU- ALLY the STUPIDEST | thing I've ever HEARD, my dear—don't you HONESTLY think so? Lloyd Mayer. No Doubt ILLIS: That phrenologist is wonderful. As soon as he put his hands on my head he told me my business was very dull. Gituis: He probably felt the de- pression, Poetic justice is served these days when a head barber has to listen while cutting a lady's hair. comicbooks.com