Life — May 24, 1928 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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folded satin cravat, the flaunting ribbon of his pince-nez, his enormous felt hat— all the impedimenta of Southern. states- manship give a romantic touch to Mr. Heflin’s environment. His Negro stories, wold in dialect and acted out, would be worth $1,000 a week on the Keith circuit. The rotundity of his periods, his frequent employment of antitheses that do not quite balance, his recitations from Felicia Hemans, his magnificent manipulation of clichés from D, Webster, all make the Senate a brighter and happier place in which to live. eee Ms. Herutn looks as if he had just come from the inauguration of Millard Fillmore. He sounds as if he were campaigning against James G. Blaine. But it must be aid to his credit that Mr. Heflin some- times says things which should be said, but which no other Senator has the courage to say. One of these was his astigation of the jury which acquitted Albert B. Fall and Edward L. Doheny. On such occasions, if you feel about the cil cases as I do, you are bound to give this Don Quixote from Alabama a hand, for his lance is sometimes as sharp as a surgeon's knife. Henry Suydam. Little Rambles with Serious Thinkers (Nore: Since we started publishing “Litle Rambles” we have been pained to learn that many of our readers believe that these quotations are counterfeits, fabricated in Lire’s office. Such is not the case, All the quotations in this column are taken verbatim from the actual pub- lished writings of the various ladies and gentlemen, or from reliable newspaper reports of their public utterances.) Ir you feel resentment towards a person you cannot at the same time love that person.—Madame Elinor Glyn. The young folk are thinking as much about sex today as any younger -genera- ton ever did.—Rex Beach. The most friendly relations exist between the governments of the United States and Nicaragua.—Frank B. Kellogg. If 1 were President of the United States Iwould not appoint any man to any office who had not voted for me for President. —Senator Blease. Moral beauty is even greater than intel- ketual beauty.—Gene Tunney. The Aphrodite Beauty Shoppe When Medusa Calls for a Permanent Wave It is true that platonic friendship is a difficult thing to maintain between men and women.—Charles G. Norris. Shakespeare is known to all the world. —William Lyon Phelps. T do not believe in the supposed influence of books.—Benito Mussolini. I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world.—Anne Nichols. Every man has a creed. A creed means what a man thinks and no man can think nothing.—Dr. Frank Crane. The Sunday newspaper is our one intel- lectual achievement. —Henry Seidel Canby. Real ladies do not arch their brows, sneer, or boast—quite the contrary. —Enmily Post. The more I see of dogs the more I believe in them.—Dr. S. Parkes Cadman. Protestantism has been dead for a hun- dred years.—H. L. Mencken, MODERN FLAT Fatuer: I suppose when you marry my daughter it will'be love in a garret? Surror: No, sir, we won't have as much room as that. A parkinc place is the space in which another car is parked. comicbooks.com