Life — December 29, 1927 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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32 Life Go "Through , Springlike yar Sunshine by the ever in- teresting and comfortable low altitude route of the Golden en State to California Shortest, Chicago to San Diego— 63 hours Chicago to Los Angeles with delightful stopovers at Doug- las, Tucson and Phoenix. Convenient service, December to May, for the 120-mile motor side trip over the famous Apache Trail, a delightful break in your cross- country trip. Golden State Limited—De luxe train. Leaves Chicago, Rock Island La Salle St. Station, 8:30 p. m. daily. Apache—Another fine all-steel train. Leaves Chicago, Rock Island La Salle St. Station, 6:00 p.m. daily. Delightful Return Routes Let a SOUTHERN PACIFIC repre- sentative plan your return trip from San Francisco by the Sunset Route through the Sunny South via Los Angeles and New Orleans. Or, the Overland Route via Ogden and Chicago. Or, by the Shasta Route north via Klamath over the new Cascade Line, Portland and the Pacific Northwest. Only Southern Pacific offers you great routes for transcontinental travel For complete information, phone, call or mail coupon Southern | J. H. Desherow, G. A. P. D. Southern Paciéc Bids. tad ckson Blvd., Chicago 101 c . 1 . ' larrison 9683 Please send me free descriptive booklets and we eewmwnenent December Lay late, wishing I 6tl were a little child a again, preferably the kind drawn by E. H. Shepard for Punch, for then, albeit I might not be able to appreciate George Mere- dith nor thrill to the sweep of a symphony, I should not be tossing on my cot at night wondering had I not done better to have given Martha Courtnay Italian towels instead of a georgette matinée, and with the box in the post beyond recall, too. It is complete infancy to which I would revert, having no mind soever to g again through the struggles of ado- lescence, and I do feel sure that hav ing my ears washed would be a treat, indeed, being fed up after all these ars on doing them for myself. Sew- ing a bit on the lingerie am making for Marge Boothby, I did take it to the kitchen for the straps to be pressed, and my Floren poor wretch, did use too hot an iron, and the lovely pink silk on which I had put so many loving stitches was seared brown, so that I was at some pains not to burst into tears, and did know somewhat of Carlyle’s feeling when John Stuart Mill informed him that a maidservant had tossed his only manuscript of “The French Revolution” into the fire, nor was my state of mind bettered by the discovery, upon rummaging through the icebox, that Katie had eaten over half my piece of citron, So quickly doing on my black faille and velvet toque, I did flee dis from such a household to join Goings at the Beverly for luncheon, and John, the maitre d’hétel, did in- > us to inspect the kitchen, a thing I was at first fearsome to do, having new been told all my life by cynics that should I once get a glimpse of a publick’s kitchen, I should never eat abroad again, but Lord! everything was so gleaming and spotless that I did hic me straightway to a housewares depart- ment and send home a great consign- ment of cleansing rags and scouring powder. I did learn, how the dishes on a menu are kept warm and in which heretofore has been life's puzzling mysteries, various readiness, one of most December The telephone a-ringing ath “arly, and it was Mary Pomfret wanting us to dine with them to-night, which I was hesitant to agree to do on the spur of the moment, this being the season when amateur Nimrods endow their friends with wild game, takes a great risk, in accepting im- promptu invitations, of sitting down before underdone duck, with no hope of a vol-au-vent in sight, but I be- thought me in time that the Ban nings were dining with us, which immediately thereafter I besought them to do, and with success. ‘This night Bob Banning did take down my copy of Browning to verify a point under discussion, and I ‘did caution him to be careful of the loose papers which it contained, as they were covered with erudite notes made whilst I was studying the poets from Landor to Kipling. So, of course, the first bit which fluttered to the floor was obliged to reveal the perforation of a daisy with leaf and bud and the pregnant caption, “Pass a hot iron over my back, and T will transfer to any material. Baird Leonard. OPE 1 complete information as checked: 1D Golden State Route © Sunset Route { OG Overland Route 0 Shasta Route { Name ' ' . % | r 2 Be TEL yf ABOUT YOUR, TRIP DOCTOR, Home Broadcasting The newest and best way to tell a story to your guests or communicate with your family. m enor OVER t comicbooks.com