Life — January 12, 1928 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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How old is your watch-chain 2 Is YOUR watch-chain really mod- ern—as freshly and as authen- tically styled now as when you bought it? Or is it out-of-date— old-fashioned? . . . Styles change in watch-chains as well as in watches, Stop by at your jeweler’s and compare your chain with the latest Simmons designs! Perhaps you need a new chain! Simmons Chains are made in all four standard styles—Dickens, Vest, Belt and Waldemar. Our process of drawing natural, green or white gold over a stout base metal assures long wear. .. . The chain illustrated is a Bondstreet design—No. 29109. Price, $6.50. R. F. Simmons Company, Attle- boro, Massachusetts, It Pays to Advertise HE firm of Ickelheim & Brill Are double-crossing rotters. I do not like their ways, but still They send me lovely blotters. Now Beekman, Liederkranz & Klein Do naught that can offend me, But though their way is straight and fine, No blotters do they send me. One cannot blot with words polite, Nor dry one’s ink with service. I like a blotter when I write, And smudges make me nervous, So Beekman, Liederkranz & Klein, However much I trust ’em, Their services I must decline; They cannot have my custom. So here's to Ickelheim & Brill, Those double-crossing rotters; They have my trade and always will— They send such lovely blotters. Newman Levy. Survival of the Fittest FeASTERNER: I was out West last summer. Westerner: That so? them hills. “The old bus averaged three hun- dred and fifty miles a day.” “Wasn't them hills: 4 “We had only two blowouts.” “Wasn't them: a “Got eighteen miles to a gallon.” “Wasn't them- “And two hundred miles to every quart of oil.” “Wasn't ” “Didn't stop at one garage.” “Was: a “Killed twenty-eight chickens.” “Wa—” “Boy, it sure was a wonderful trip!” “Yes, but the scenery?” “What scenery?” James E. Ryder. Wasn't Books Received New Wine. By Geoffrey Moss (Doran). Literary Blasphemies. By Ernest Boyd (Harpers). s I Knew Them. By Henry L. Stoddard (Harpers). The Gulf of Years. By Watson Griffin (The Point Publishers, Toronto). The Gentleman in Armor. By Rob- ert J. Casey (Sears). Short History of Women. By John Langdon-Davies (Viking Press). New Journeys in Old Asia. By Helen Churchill Candee (Stokes). Yankee Doodle-Doo. Edited by Grenville Vernon (Payson & Clarke) The Dagger. By Bingham Thoburn Wilson (Wetzel, Los Angeles). Days and Nights in Montmartre. By Ralph Nevill (Doran) .+- the fairway’s waiting tempt- ing'y along the many courses of the Florida East Coast. The greens are smooth and true, and Winter time is Play time where the Gulf Stream weaves its spell. There’s constant golf for young and old—tournaments for those who play around in par; tournaments, too, where you meetthe men who play the kind of game that you yourself enjoy. There’s golf—good golf —to watch, and golf to play. At the Florida East Coast Hotels there's a pleasant atmosphere of golf —at the Ponce de Leon, the Alcazar or the Cordova in St. Augustine; the Hotel Ormond, at Ormond Beach; the Royal Poinciana and the Breakers in Palm Beach; the Royal Palm, Miami, and the Casa Marina in Key West. For fishermen, there is the Long Key Fishing Camp, Long Key. For information, hotel reservations, Pullman and railroad tickets, apply FLORIDA EAST COAST General Offices: St. Augustine, Fla. 2 West 45th Street, New York City lette mist thos each cleai A work num may grar A addi 598 YO! A mus nc now int A writ side man con! on kn wo comicbooks.com