Life — December 2, 1926 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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Father: ane Tur ciiLDREN YET FOR THE HOLIDAYS? Gwistms T, i Fe HOME Mother: 1 seLpoM READ THE PAPERS. *“Man Wants but Little”’ DID my shopping early. I bought Red Cross tuberculosis seals. I dropped my change in Salvation Army kettles. I wore cotton whiskers at the Sun- day School treat. I carpentered a large conifer in the living-room. I tonsilled carols suburb. I have pleasure. So let me play with the children’s mechanical toys. I shall be middle-aged only once. McC. H. Christmas all over our earned my Christmas The Handwriting on the Wall HE Sunday School teacher began her questioning: “What did King Belshazzar do?” And the class re- plied, “Made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. And they fetched the golden vessels from the * temple at Jerusalem, and the king, and his princes, his wives and his concubines, drank in them.” Teacher, a little hastily at that, asked: “What then happened?” And the class answered: “A man’s hand came from the plaster of the wall and wrote upon the plaster!” ‘And who can tell me what was written on the plaster?” “I kin,” said the boy in the back seat. “A man’s hand came from the plaster of the wall, and it wrote upon the wall, ‘AIMEE, AIMEE, SEMPLE McPHERSON! And the king was mighty astonished.” CHRISTMAS EVE AT YE OLDE ROAD- HOUSE. Poker: A Review of the Season NY review of the now fast- waning poker season must take into consideration the three outstand- ing figures of the year—Wumps of Harvard, Milox of Liggett’s Drag Store, and Delaney of the bar just across the strect. Wumps's play in the big Yale game was perhaps the most stunning surprise in a ycar filled with upsets, Coming into the game at 2:45 in the morning when Hawkins, the first- string player, was taken out on ac- count of his wife’s having telephoned for him in a threatening manner, Wumps ran one yellow, two blue and four red chips into a stack that had Yale at his mercy. Ingjdentally, it is reliably reported that Wumps has received an attractive offer from C. C. Pyle to turn professional and play poker for the money involved. “T am considering it,” he admitted. “I do not want the dear old game put on a sordid basis, but I feel I owe it to my totsy, who has had a grouch at me ever since I renigged on a check at Ciro’s.” Milox started the season poorly, balling up many of his deals and often fumbling his cards, but his im- provement, starting with the United Cigar Store game, was steady and amazing. He had that big Red and Gold team gasping with his clever mixing of calls and raises, and his splendid inside-straight draw in the last hour made him a national figure overnight. There is no greater inside-straight drawer in America to-day than this unassuming young man. Milox plans to spend the winter at Hollywood, where he will be starred in a film to be known as “That Beats Me,” but he has prom- ised the Liggett manager personally that he will be back in the pink of condition for next season's first game, that with the Blue Kitchen restaurant chain. Delaney’s great handicap is that he has been day bartender, playing at hours in which only the smaller games are played. He proved his mettle, though, in the annual classic with O'Connor's place, when he came in at 8:30 a. o., while the struggle was still on, drew two cards to a pair with an ace kicker and emerged with four tens. This fellow will bear watching. Tip Bliss. comicbooks.com