Life — August 25, 1927 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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Within the Law “VZOUR HONOR, atturney for the plaintiff, “my client can not ask for a divorce on the usual grounds, said the She is not a beautiful woman whose supple figure clad in a becoming and fashionable costume will greatly impress the newspaper reporters. By of the fact that she prefers cotton stockings, she can not captivate both Court and jury with trim, silken-clad limbs as she takes her seat in the witness box, nor has reason she the ability to direct two superlatively liquid blue eyes at the defendant's attorney and, by her very look, con- vince the spectators that she is being persecuted by his grilling cross-examination, “But, Your Honor, my client, simple woman though she is, asks for a decree because for four weeks she has suffered as no woman ever before suffered at the hands This, if I may quote a few recent utter ances of her husband, the defendant in this case, of any man, 3 is the way in which he has replied to every question she has asked him during the past month; I do not choose to have cereal this morning. “T do not choose to go to the movies this evening. I do not choose to buy a new car this season I do not choose to go to the seashore for my vaca- ion this year.” “I do not.. “One moment, answered the learned justice. “I do hear any not choose to more. Deerce granted. J.O.M. Van Tassel. Error | A VERY curious experi- ment was performed recently by physiologists at the University of Hel- singfors, Finland. They led a couple of undergrad uates into the laboratory and instructed them to dance the Black Bottom. Then they led in’ two wrestlers who had won their H and told them to With delicate in- struments they the amount of energy ex- pended by and now wrestle. measured each they are an- nouncing that on the basis of their calculations wrestling requires 1 Well, well It looks as though some one will just calories, or almost three | || times as much energy as | \ docs dancing the Black | Bottom (4.68 calories) LANG Life 21 UST PEIWEEN US CIPL® | “M* dear, I couldn't be fuller of WIM, W1IGor and * WITALity at this point because I stly GURgitating with GLEE, no less, because I have been to the DAvis CUP matches and, my dear, I had the WILDest TIME—just LOOSE, do you know what I mean? Well, ANYways, my dear, I think this FRENCH team is SIMply DARling because I they all WEAR these CUTE bérET effects and I mean this BorOTra person is perfectly SWE my dear I mean I'm SIMply GOOFY about him — be ) ¢ cause he is TERribly sort # of BRUtal-looking and all, oe do you know what I mean? rt = Well, ANY ways, my dear, you know they eall him the = a BOUN¢ BISQUE. or | 1 something roMANtic like THAT, and, my dear, he plays the most MARvelous GAME. because I mean he sort of HITS the BALI - ind simply NObody can A Ret anywheres NEAR it or Ag oansthing. Well, ANY | | | am hon mean ways, my dear, [was simply THRILLED to DEATH because I mean after the MATCH effect was Over I met this Bor OTra person and I told him IT had been to PARis and he TOO im PRESSED and he seemed terribly GRATEful, sort of, di ou know what I mea Well, ANY ways, my dear, I HONestly think this BOUNeing BISQUE | sort of deSERVES this Davis CUP effect because I mean I think he’s so at TRACtive—L mean 1 AC- was tJ) tually DO! have ta go over and show Apropos of Nothing Lloyd Mayer. those Finns what the Black He: Wat vo you po witit youR OLD CROsswoRrD Bottom really is. PUZZLE BOOKS AFTER THEY'RE ALL FILLED ur? A DD Similes As busy Tupper Greenwald, She: ou, 1 PUT THEM IN THE GUESSED ROOM LX as a new radio.” comicbooks.com