Life — October 14, 1926 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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Our Foolish gGjiic Contemporaries At the British Admiralty “DON'T YOU CONSIDER IT A BIT DISTURBING THAT ALL THESE PEOPLE SHOULD swt THE CHAN ? —L'Euere (Paris). Si Jeunesse Savait Tur daughter of the editor of a very Parisian paper was married recently. It was a beautiful wedding and the recep- tion in the evening was crowded with joyous and elegant young people. While the couples were dancing happily the parents stood by i charmed as well as moved by this disp a neighboring room, “After all,” said a dowager, “youth is beautiful” * replied the editor, beautiful—wha the hands of chi is very left in Sourire (Pari The High Cost of Matrimony “Bet, lady,” a marriage-license clerk explained “the law compels me to rec s marriages bef pod Lord! exclaimed her prospec- tive husband. “And Tye got a taxi wait- ing!"—Saturday Evening Post. Faim Critic: Mr. and Mrs. Jones. al- ways give one the impression that they both realize they have married beneath them.—Punch, We hear of a violinist who practices while he is dressing. Perhaps he wants to be a Nero to his valet. London Daily News, “TUESE ARMORERS ARE GOING TO TITE DOGS, MY DEAR, A COUPLE OF BATTLES AND LOOK AT THIS LADDER.” —Gaiety (London). “Aut Scissors aut Nullus” Told by an Austrian Colonel Denne the war a nel was trans- ferred to a new command. On reaching his depot he found stacks of useless docu- ments accumulated in the archives hy his predecessors, so he wired to headquarters for permission to burn them, The answer came back: “Yes, but make copies first.” —London Daily Express. Lifelong Pedestrians “T seven was arrested in my life.” the -whiskered gentleman declared in- dignantly. “I don’t drive a car, either,” agreed the fat man.—Nansas City Star. ‘Tur practical note has finally been sounded in a contest where a prize is given to the infant that sleeps the sound- est and longest.—Detroit News. The Cows: Now it’s THEM TERN TO WATCH WILLE WE GO RY, Le Rire (Paris) The Law of Compensation A you San Franciscan named Ai- bert Bertie declares he is entitled to the dukedom of Argyle with $35,000,000 and it seems fair e to us. A man shouldn't ¢ to be called Albert Bertie for nothing.—Chicago Daily News. True Love Indeed “Is it a love mate “It must be, ‘They pl partners all summer and are still fond cach other."—Detroit Free Press. Prowimioy has finally made whisky as deadly as the old-fashioned advocate of temperance used to say it was. —Miami Herald. Ar any rate, Italy is one country where the king can do no wrong. —El Paso Times. The Return of Uncle Sam “WASTIINGTON, WE are ieee! —IlEcho de Par Family Cares A urttie beggar of twelve TS ace costed a lady. “C kind lady,” said he. three children to support.” “But you're not old enough to be jure ried, my child,” was the astonished woman's answer, if you please, havea wife und No, but my brother is,” explained the hoy. “It's his wife and three children 1 have to support. Le Canard (Montreal Not a Christian Character Wrrtes a schoolboy —“A man that is ambidextrous is one that lets his rizht hand know what his left hand doetl -Woodstown (N. J.) Monitor-R A coon wife will find fault with you forever unless you quit work and let her carn a living for ) Milwaukee Jouruel Give a criminal enough rope nowadays and he'll acquit himself. —Arkansas Gazette “1 SAY, DOCTOR, YOU'RE A SKIN SPECTALIST— WHAT KIND 18 THAT?” —Ia Voz (Madrid). comicbooks.com