Life — February 23, 1928 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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Our Foolis “1 SUPPOSE YOU'VE BEEN ALL OVER THE SEVEN SEAS? “WELL, TO TELL YOU NO LIE, 1 NEVER WAS IN THE 8 GET SOMEWHERE WHERE WE COU! A Bond of Sympathy Denixe Anders Zorn's visit to Chicago in 1893, when he painted Mrs, Potter Palmer's portrait, Mrs. Palmer gave a reception in her home, where the artist. was introduced to a number of ladies in Chicago society. One of the women, somewhat nervous when shaking the hand of the great Zorn, exclaimed: “So delighted to make your acquaintance—my cook is a Swede!” —Séndagsnisse-Strir (Stockholm). The Maiden's Prayer “Prease, dear Lord, help me to be half as popular as the dog that ran through our lecture room this morning.”—IIlinois Siren, Revision for pedestrians: Leap before you look.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. of lady's muff) : we. PRISED AT YOU! SN ING AT sor! —London Opinion. IT DOWN IN COMFORT 1 COULD TELL You sor TALES ABOUT THE OTHER six.” —Punch (London), by permission. “Aut Scissors aut Nullus” NTH, BUT IP WE Was TO “mreusit you orr, sci?” —Yale Record. Steady Improvement “Orr, what a tangled web we weave When first we praetice to deceive! At first, perhaps; but later we Get by with more facil Film Fun. Lucullus in New York “A great restaurant sbould have something of the atmosphere of a Greek temple. No- body should enter while drunken. He ought to come out that way.”—Heywood Broun, in the World. Witt you say that again, please? —New Yorker. Prediction “I see,” said I, “that he got solitary confinement with hard labor, for life.” “Well,” said the wife, “he'll never sur- vive that."—Chicago Daily News. Soctat. Note: The Collector of Internal Revenue has been mailing a lot of letters to his acquaintances.—Dallas News. ontemporaries Just West of Suez Ax Emporia man, whose relatives have just returned from foreign wanderings, listened for three hours last night to their account of the cocktails, wines, brandies and liqueurs they had firmly turned down while on their travels After two full hours of graphic descrip. tions of ice-cold, amber-glistening Mar- tinis, tall, ruddy, bitter-sweet Presidente cocktails, the foamy rush of Piper-Heid- sieck from the gold-capped mouth of its green bottle into tall-stemmed crystal glasses, the mellow gurgle of golden Haig & Haig as it leaps into tall cylin. drical glasses and snuggles warmly down amongst the cracked ice, the leaping blood-stream of fine Italian Chianti as it spurts from its straw-bound, bomb- shaped container, a crimson pool into its squatty wine-glass—after listening three hours to this, the Emporia man became so thirsty that he picked up the parlor rug and drank it down in one gulp. —Emporia Gazette. Or Dictate It Tue young Greek, lately nat- uralized in America, who refused to simplify his original name, Constantine Pappadimitrakopov- los, would be an odd fellow to correspond with. He would write his name and sign a letter to it —Detroit News. Patent Not Applied For ‘Most any golfer, poor or rich, Would never count the cost Could he but find a golf ball which Would bark when it was lost. —Southern Golfer. The Trouble Tue Gratz (in night club): There's young Flashman two tables from us. Is he well connected? ‘Tue Man: Er—yes, but his wires are down, I believe.—Boston Transcript. “{ BELIEVE IN METEMPSYCHOSIS; WITEN T DIE 1 SHALL BE REINCARNATED IN THE BODY OF AN ANIMAL.” “RUT THEN, you DON'T NEED TO DIP.” —Excelsior (Mezico City). comicbooks.com