Life — March 29, 1928 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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Prospective Tenant of Castle: MUGE CATAPULT? House Agent: THAT's TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE CASTLE 18 ONLY A STONE'S THROW FROM TITE STATION. —Humorist (London). Congratulatory In a letter to the New York World, Arthur William Row re- calls a bon mot tossed off by the late Stevens. It seems that a friend of Miss Stevens was buying, with prodigal hand, fur- nishings for a new flat. One night at dinner she announced to her guests that at last all was bought for her bedroom, In fact,” she assured them, “my bedroom problem is solved!” aid Emily, “that for any woma' —Playgoer (Detroit). “nerone you ves We over- heard an angel faced little miss of eighteen saying this to a boy in a coonskin coat: “No, I never wait at home for some- thing to happen. I go out and make it happen.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. “paTHER, WOULD You CARE IP 1 MARRIED 4 MAN wiTit A TITLE?" “NoT IF 1T WERE THE HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE, boris.” —Everybody's Weekly (London) Crowded with Action Ir is estimated that a man would take several seconds to fall from the top of several skyscrapers in New York. But no doubt the time would seem to pass quickly enough. —Passing Show (London). WHAT'S THE IDEA OF THE “Aut Scissors aut Nullus” Overexposed Tiere was a young girl who one point always stressed: She obeyed style's de- eree to the dot; She thought when she walked down the street she was dressed— But the spectators saw she was not. —New York Sun, Don't Go Too Far Apv. in Hattiesburg News: “One nicely fur- nished room, excellent lo- cation, 8 minutes’ walk to congenial gentleman.” —Country Gentleman. MURDERED YOUR GRANDPARENTS, You YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER?” wet iM sonry 1 pip AGAIN ! —Le Journal (Paris). “SO YOU'RE GETTING MARRIED AGAIN?!” “YES, AND 1 MOPE TLL BE Marrier THAN 1 WAS THE LAST TIME.” “BE CAREVUL—SOMETIMES ONE MAS A RELAPSE WHICH IS WORSE THAN THE ORIGINAL AILMENT.” "Illustration (Paris). Too Much Competition A Missourr woman sent this testi- monial to a radio station in her vicinity “Since your station started broadcasting our cat sleeps in the barn.” —Boston Transcript. Raise—The increase of pay you get just before going into debt a little farther.—Columbia (S. C.) State. AND I SWEAR ILL NEVER DO IT We feel indebted to George W. Rus- sell, or AE, for his character the author of “Babbitt” as a s seems to know only the life which be satirizes.—Buffalo Courier-Express, BIRD’s-EYE VIEW OF CILICAGO. (x marks spot where body was found.) —Kansas Sour Owl, Life Is Like That Lrrtite Mary, who had fallen ill, begged for a kitten. It was found that an opera- tion was necessary for the child’s cure, and that she must go to the hospital. Her mother promised that if she were very brave she should have the very finest kitten to be found. As Mary was recovering from the influence of the anasthetic the nurse heard her muttering: “It's a rotten way to get a kitten.” —Tit-Bits (London). Dip IN The Question of the Day Proresson; What is this great new movement that is stirring the world; something that is working at the very foundation of our social sys- tem, that is revolutionizing our ideals of our beginning, that is, in short, to lighten the mind of man? Ctass (ia unison) ; Companionate mar- —Carnegie Tech. Puppet The Theatre Talkers Tuatnecore (to couple in nest row who are conversing audibly): It's impos sible to hear a word in back of you Tue Hessaxp: What business is it of yours what I say to my wife? —Meggendorfer Blitter (Munich). at the Daytona speed This is Campbell, the great Brit- ish driver—wasn't it?”—Detroit News. comicbooks.com