Life — January 27, 1927 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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Insurance Agent: Is YOUR DADDY HERE LITTLE GIRL? Little Girl: No, wet MAMMA’S 18. The Unforgivable Sin OMEROY JONES been friends for years. He is a weak vessel; he adm 3 and I have liked him for it. Oscar Wilde beat him to the epigram he wishes most that he might have made I can resist anything but temptation.” He never gave me a holier-than- thou look. He believed a man was known by the vices he kept. He was convinced that to forgive was human and to err nothing short of divine. He did his repent- ing, like Helen of Troy, in advance. He was great company. But I shall have to give him up. If, in a moment of exuberance, he had set fire to his grandfather's toupee; if, in a spirit of boyish fun, he had bur- glarized a bank; if, in whimsical mood, he had drawn a caricature in ink upon the fair white bosom of my last clean dress shirt —if he had committed any se crimes I could ly have laughed it off. He has committed an act beyond redemption. There are some things which even the most toler- ant of friendships cannot weather. On the first of the year and I have he made a resolution to stop smoking altogether and he has kept it. SP. Preferred OCTOR: Are you taking the medicine regularly? Patie? I tasted it, and decided I'd rather have the cough. —— LIN Did atete ans Phone Girl: Mak, WHY DON’T You GET MARRIED? “WaT! ME GET MARRIED AFTER WHAT I HEARD THOSE MARRIED BIRDS SAY OVER THE PHONE?” Life. Lines FTER rary of effort, the trans-oceanic telephone has be come a fact—and every one agrees that this marvelous achievement of science will make war impossible, Since the invention of the flint hatchet, every new development has been destined to make war impos- sible. But war has gone on—possi- bly because war was impossible to begin with, aL “There is a terrible epidemic of suns here. There are about thirty case. in the township."—Barnescille (O.) Whetstone But—and we should like to know about this before we buy tickets to Barnesville—at how much a case? = nouncement has it that [J ators have undertaken a flight to Central Ameri- cerest wish that ing some. The offic they succeed in fin aL A. distinguished offering pri made in white soap. a subject, “Gertruve Floats.”” soap company is ff} for the best statues We suggest as ERLE. She LL Jn Chicago, the number of n dropped from 39+ in 1925 to 1926, which would seem to ind that the innocent bystanders are catching on. ders } LL One Arvin Vorprrnine of Reinbeck, Iowa, has had a headache for twelve con secutive years, but our sympathy, goes out to his friends who have had to listen to the story of what a whale of a parts twelve years ago. a D hus ove sun he oni wot up the in | and loo} 4B San Standing Room Always APAR !MEN'T-HOUSE JANITOR: Three new families moving in te} morrow? Why, every apartment is occupied now. Lanptorp = (ex - street car conductor): That’ nothing. Just tell every body to move up front little. comicbooks.com Soci we sion the tot shot too mar say afte arri a