Life — December 1, 1927 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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Ballade 64 Lady Who Is Just About Through with Suffering Along in Silence KNOW how it is with you—well do I know How deep you've been drenched in misfortune’s wild rain: Your husband's appendix. . .dull business. . .the slow Collapse of your car after long years of strain. The fur coat that must be remodeled amain. But, though you have suffered deplorably, dear, This warning must sound like a ghost's clanking chain: Don't give me the tea-set Madge gave you last year. Yes, yes; you're stone-broke; and you just couldn't show Your face to your friends without writhing in pain If ever you let the gay gift-season go And didn't give something to each one. The brain Endures much abuse, but I can't even feign Indifference now: it will kill me, or near. ‘ot that! or I’m sure to go raving ins: Don't give me the te t Madge gave you t year! It's this way: Four years ago little Ruth's beau Presented her mother with that. When the vain, Loose minx threw him over, she hated it: so They held it till Christmas: I loathed it. Madge got it. Then you Were forced to pt it last Yuletide. S My desperate plea; I implore you, ref Don’t give me the tea-set Madg d mine was the gain. hapless jane, gave you last year. L'Exvor Let this be one Noél when malice is slain. . What is it you bring as a message of che \ lone wreath of holly, as cheap as it’s plain? Don't! Give me the tea-set Madge gave you last year! . Simonetta. Colleges a La Hollywood Campus: An immense stadium surrounded by autiful, spacious grounds. Occasionally a school building or two be included, but this is generally considered the poorer practice. The Students: A jolly, carefree crowd of young folks, mostly pretty girls, who spend their days sipping sodas ind their nights dancing around immense bonfires. The Dean: A_ sour-faced, rheumatic pedant who looks upon displays of college spirit as evidence of feeble-mindedness, but who becomes frenzied with joy when the team makes the winning touchdown in the last second of } Joel Seidman. MOTHER (to child): And now-Santa Claus has be- AYE oun his long flight from the North. City: How many sandwiches did he take? The $2500.00 ALL-AMERICA TRAVEL CONTEST is omitted in this issue—but it will be resumed in the Dec, 8th issue of Lire and will continue every week from then on until the Contest closes on Feb. oth, 1928 read Life regularly ~ EVERY week! PALESTINE EGYPT interesting Old World lands By the famous “Rotterdam” 7th Cruise Leaving New York, February 2, Under the HowLann-Asenica Line's THE “ROTTERDAM 24,170 tons register 37,190 tons displacement 71 DAYS OF DELIGHTPUL DIVERSION ITINERARY includes Madeira, Cadiz Seville, (Granada) _ Gibraltar, Algiers Naples (first call), Tunis, Athens, Con- stantinople, Beirut, Haifa. Jerusalem ithe Holy Land), Alexandria, Cairo (and Eaypt Cattaro, Ragusa, Venice. Naples (second call), Monaco, and the Riviera Stopover in Europe if desired For choice selection of accommodations make reservations NOW COST OF CRUISE $955 UP. Number of guests limited Mhustrat der “L” HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE 21-24 State Street, New York Boston. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. Cleve Minnearolis, St. Louis, Detroit, Atlanta, Ga New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mexi Montreal, Winnipeg, Or any author on request to WEST INDIES bby the super berming SS VEENDAM oe auernics AFRICA (Cryer runore by coped berning Wve Dee oat “ HIS Gift—settled! 'AMOUS CAKE BOX Mixture has been ol 4 fire” in the brurs both before and after gr But in the heart of HE SAKE BOX leaves a very wart LIFE: Published Weekly by Life Pub. Co., $98 Madison Ave... N. Y Subscription, $5.00. Vol. 90, No. Claw Matter, June & 1883, at New York N.Y. 8 das 2n " Office, under act of March 3, 1879. Printed in U.S. A. Ent'd as 2nd Claas Matter at the Post Office Dept...C COR 927, 1 Co. in U.S, Engtand and British Pomeni comicbooks.com