Life — December 22, 1927 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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28 Life Our Foolish jij? Contemporaries THE ABSENT-MINDED SMOKER BUYS A PATENT LIGHTER, —California Pelican, The Bedside Manner “My dear Grannie, | hope you are quite well...” This was, I thought, how every school condemned to write to But nung hope- his grandmother, began his letters I have found a variant. ful is a doctor's s« and he beg: are free Don't Bet on Fights! “Tus boxing is a devious business,” said the Confirmed Skeptic. “They threw a towel into the ring at the fight last night and it was marked ‘Pullman,’ ” —Detroit News. Radio Version Wysrer ys y-cumen in, I.hude syng WCC Chicago Evening Post. “CERTAINLY, BARONESS, 1 MIGHT PLAY MY SONATA OR YOU, BUT 1 FEAR I MIGHT INTERFERE WITIC THE CONVER- SATION OF YOUR GUESTS. “oll—THEN IF You DON’T PLAY IT TOO LOUDLY bee —Le Petit Bleu (Paris). “Aut Scissors aut Nullus’” Blue Monday in Camelot Oxe day while Sir Lancelot dreamed of romance a lot, Rose a great clatter; he disgusted. He ran to the battlement to learn what the rattle meant— ‘There in the courty line had busted! “Louge,” in Cleveland Plain Dealer. sprang up rd the clothes- At Long Last Punst Gextiemay or tin Oxp Senoor: I hear poor old Smithson has passed He was ninety-four. Stcoxn Derro: never really wered from the shock that the mc ern girl gave him in the awa eventies. Punch. A New York department store is seek- ing a Santa Claus ard Shaw But th cople who don't belie resembles are lots of in Bernard who AN ENGLISIE SPARROW VISITS MAYOR THOMPSON. —Ohio Ste Dial. e Sun Show Business Recoosizixe Howard Thurston, the Pe n, in a barber shop one morning, n said to him: ‘ou didn't ha > everything in your performance that you show on the bills.” “What was sing?” asked the “Well,” ~ replied — the man, “I didn’t see any of those little red which the bills show standing on and whispering evils your shoulder in your ¢ Youngst n Telegram, And How! “Wrar instrument do you play in the jazz band?” “I shoot the guns.” —Country Gentleman, To get the full signifi- cance of the college spirit it is necessary to wait until it turns against a losing foot coach.— Toledo Blade. “Thus kNow LETTER-CARRYING 18 now “VES, 1 CAN WELI “DON'T FORGET, AT HOME IP TH He IS Nov, sim, 1 ~Pasi MARY, THAT 1 OAM Nor GENTLEMAN 18 4 BORE ASKED iM.” @ Show (London). “We and “It” Lixpore who refused to benefit ; from his flight across the At financial! lantic, was asked to dinner with the President. And that shows what honors may be won by refusing to commercializ one’s heroism. Ruth Elder, whose flight Atlantic was strictly stunt, was as! lent, his arm. ion of what he a pretty girl Houston Post-Dispatch across the maki the Pr re a money i to dinner with went into the dining And that is an indi ca be won by ors may The Lobster Tu. lobster believed his ambition To be served & la Newburg patrician. He remarked with a sigh: “Ww In order to win ree nition. Saturday lobsters must Seening Post Stor Axorien “desirable residence” that wasn't.—Humorist (London) Wurat this country needs is a good five-cent nickeL—Film Fun, NOT sO BAD, BUT You DON'T IT MOUNTS UP IN SItOE-LEATHER.” RELIEVE FT—ESPECIALLY THE LETTERS TO VOREIGN COUNTRIES —Buen Humor (Madrid.) comicbooks.com