Life — October 7, 1926 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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The Opera Season Opens At eight the curtain rises; 4% The uproar has begun— The singers sing, the rafters ring, And so—till half-past one. Great stuff!—but, oh, so endless !— Proving, unless I’m wrong, ‘The fellow knew his business who Observed that art is long! Edward Anthony. These Three ] ITTLE WILLIE had never seen Dy a nun before, and he was vy much interested. “Oh, Mama!” “What is that “Why, that is a Sister of Charity,” his mother explained. “Which one is Hope?” Vanished Americans he said excitedly. she, Faith or The Soubrette NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY WERE HER SMILE AND WINK! HER VOICE WAS SHRILL, HER LAUGH WAS GAY AND MOCKING. ONE LEG WAS ALWAYS BLUE AND ONE WAS PINK 1OW SCANDAL- OUSLY sitocKING! College Humor in the Gay Nineties THE EVOLUTION OF THE CHRYSANTHEMUM. Thirty Years Ago To-day bd ISS JANE HOPE like to died of blushing for shame last Wednesday when she was passing the general store and the wind blew her skirts nigh as high as her kne A good time was reported by the boys gathered in front. *Marshall Muse hasn't had_ his hair cut for going onto two months now. He is aiming to make the school football team this fall. *Andy Carmichael, popular and enterprising owner of the town black- smith shop, reports a big increase in business of late. “Looks like we seem to be in for an era of national prosperity,” says Andy. “Every- body seems to be driving his own horse nowadays.” *Congr ulations are being showered upon Fred Walters, the drug store pro- prictor, for his initiative and go- ahead - iveness in installing a soda fountain contain- ing chocolate, va- nilla and straw- berry flavors. Some of the conserv tives, though, are afraid this will detract from the regular drug trade. * Statistics show an alarming in- crease in divore hereabouts of late. There was one last yearand another only a couple of years back. Rev. WHO 1S) THIS Picture No. 7 SOLEMN WHAT I8 HE FAMOUS FoR? (Hint: He dominates a tribe of big men, but of late has not been doing it so well,...Read the conditions of the yy Nineties Contest on page 6.) Maplesden will take as his topic Sunday, “A Menace to the Home.” *The barber shop reports total ex- haustion of its stock of Seven Suther- land Sisters hair-growing _ tonic, same having been exhausted by Mary Alice Freeman, who aims to keep right up with New York and Paris fashions in coiffures. *The local W. C. T. U. has an- nounced that drunkenness in this county has been reduced one-half, following last Sunday's lecture in Center Church. *Several interesting postcards of the Flatiron Building have been re- ceived from C. D. Russell who left our mongst some time ago to seek his fortune in N. Y. and writes to an- nounce he has been promoted from horse - car driver to con- ductor on the Broadway line. Our — loc: boys have the goods. Tip Bliss. The ‘“‘Learning- to-Swim"’ Gag (From Lire 1897) ATHING GIRL: Is it any fun getting a man to teach you how to ride the wheel? Breyerine Girt: Fun! Why, I've been taught 2 three times. FELLOW? comicbooks.com