Life — October 13, 1927 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Life [SUST BETWEEN US GIRLE | To Whom It May Concern Now there shall be no lighted candle burning To welcome back your wandering with its light, For my poor heart at last has done with learning That love that waits at home gets cold at night. And there shall be no open door at morning For I shall be off singing with the linnets. But tacked beside the doorbell, find this we ‘arning: “I shall be back within the next ten minutes. Merriam Griffin, Thoughts While Shaving HAT a funny face. Why have I such a funny face? Maybe I could be a movie actor if I had another face. I'd earn at least a thousand a week. Just imagine having somebody hand you a thousand smacks every week. First thing I'd get a new car. and I'm all-of-a-BIB-and-TUCKer—I_ mean ACtually FRAYED down to my WARP F about something because I HONestly An_ Isotta-Franwhatchamacallit. Or a Rolls-Royce. think these GIRLS who get STUCK for HOURS with No, they’re too common. I'd buy a couple of cases of | a man at a PARty and haven't S enough to sort that bootleg champagne. I think I'll get a case of it of exCUSE themselves or something just ABsolutely anyhow. That's silly. What do I need with a whole deSERVE to get the repuTAtion of being awfully un- case? Gee, the fellow I bumped the other night said Ford right in my way when I backed up? I can't be annoyed. Let the insurance—that’s right, payment due COURS life insurance next week. Silly for me to carry all that life insurance. Never felt better—except for my he cough. Too many cig- arettes. Not a cough in a carload. How long would it take me to smoke a carload of cigarettes? Shaving’s a nuisance. It's so use- less. Every morning you shave it off and the next morning there it is again. Robert Lord. POPular and all, but simply HEAPS of girls I know he was going to sue me. What made him stick that do it all th TIME, my dear, and I mean I unde: ND it because I mean of J the MAN sort of has to preTEND he's en- JOYing dancing with you and everything but of course LIVid after he has sort of pro- PELLED you Violently round about ‘STEEN times and NObody has cut IN—can you BEAR it, my dear? Well, ANYways, my dear, the other NIGHT I was SIMply TERrified beeause I mean I danced round and ROUND with this AWfully sweet boy who I had just ME d, my dear, I was SIMply LIVid because I could sort of SEE myself sort of VAGUEly prancing round and round with this odd soul for the rest of the EVEning. So I simply TOLD him FRANKLY he Cause and Effect ; 5 was STUCK with me and I HON- OMANCE is insid- estly WISHED he'd go and dance jous. It creeps Bedtime Story for Nature Lovers with some one ELSE. But I mean into the victims’ blood ioc ‘ . he said he would LOADS rather d i h t MR. OYSTER HAD BEEN PACING UP AND DOWN ° Bug Freduces’ them, to THE COLD, WHITE CORRIDORS OF THE SUBMA- keep on dancing with ME and it an apathetic state in ; MATERNITY HOSPITAL — HOUR APTER was perf'ly riDIC about being vac ney are anh , THROUGHOUT THE LONG NIGHT. ort STUCK and I knew from the way of intenigence snc wi Ik WOULD PAUSE TO MOP HI BROW. he SAID it that he was REALIy power and believe they WOULD THIS ORDEAL NEVER END? sinCERE. TI mean I think in a case are supremely happy. like THAT it's ABs'lutely all Romance, in fact, is a AT LAST, WITH THE DAWN, TIIE poor RIGHT ta sort of keep ON—I mean form of sleeping sick- OPENED—THE DOOR BEYOND WHICH LAY HIS I ACtually DO!” ness from which it HOPES, HIS DREAMS, HIS HAPPINESS... Lloyd Mayer. takes the weaker sex That Long Count longer to recover. That's why so many They say the referce of the of last June's bride- Dempsey-Tunney fight is a grooms are still get- gota Salvation Army worker ting their own break- Sue: How's that? fasts. yes,” saip sie; “It’s A PEARL!” He: He believes that a man may Gerald Cosgrove. be down but never out. A TRAINED NUR! APPEARED, BEARING TEN DERLY THE PRECIOU PARCEL FOR WHICH If > "GH UNUTTERED PLEA, SHE SMILED comicbooks.com