Life — September 14, 1928 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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RHYMED REVIEW Brook Evans By Susan Glaspell, Frederick A. Stokes Co. Naomt hardly cared to live, ut married Caleb Evans (rather Than bear paternal wrath) to give Her dear, dead lover's child a father. The child was born; they called her “Brook”; vnd under Colorado heavens She grew in loveliness, and took he name of sternly pious Evans. He- mother yearned to keep her true lo life and joy and free convictions, While Evans, though he loved her, too, vas all for prudish, prim restrictions. Ye! when Brook learned about her birth ler mother’s stock went down to zero, While Evans seemed the salt of earth, Her chivalrous though humble hero. A clash of instincts, minds, or hearts Disgusted Brook with home and mother And off she fled to heathen parts On some religious work or other, A captain's wife, she bore a son. Her husband died of wounds internal. But though before the tale is done She could have wed a good old colonel, Her mother in her won the day; She spurned the safe for something grander; At thirty-eight she ran away lo China with a mad Icelander. ‘hough prudent persons look askance Or cry, “Thin ice!" to warn the skater, The girl that’s born to take a chance Will do so either soon or later. Arthur Guiterman. REVIVED ys in Arkansas a man was tried for assault ! battery with intent to kill, The State pro- ul as evidence the weapons uscd—a rail, a saw and rifle, The defendant's counsel ex- ted as the other man’s weapons a scythe c. pitchfork, pistol, dog razor and hoe, After g out several hours the jury gave their We the jury would have given a dollar to the fight.""—Charleston News and Courier. Ar a recent fancy-dress ball, we read, body entered into the spirit of fun with ab- tely gay abandon, Too often the abandon v which people enter into the spirit of fun is Ix the Old Days you never stormed round the bedroom with a folded newspaper ing for a mosquito and found it was an air- ine a mile above the house.—Detroit News. | Those who know SAY_ “Go to EUROPE now ‘OU'VE heard the midsummer traveler's lament: “Boat crowded—best accommodations gone—trains in Europe jammed.” But the “travel-wise” will tell you the joys of off-season trips: Golf, or shooting, or rid- ing to hounds—the fall's the time for all that! Enjoy them now, as the European does. On American ships To sail on a United States Liner is a privilege. Con- sider some of the advantages: a steadier, swifter cross- ing; a more delicious cuisine; pleasanter fellow trav- elers; courteous stewards who serve you more promptly because they understand your American likes and dislikes. There are rates and sailings to suit everyone on the S.S. Leviathan (the world’s largest ship), S.S. George Washington, S.S. America, S.S. Republic, S.S. President Harding, and S.S. President Roosevelt from New York to Ireland, England, France, and Germany. United States Lines $5.00. Vol. 92, No. 2393, Sept. 13, 1928. Ent’d as 2od Class Matter, June &, 1883, at Post Office Dept., Canada. Copyright 1928, Life Pub, Co., in U.S., England and British a Published Weekly by Life Publiahing Company, 508 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. Sul New York Post Office, under act of March 3, 1879. Printed in U.S. A. Eant’d as 2nd Class Matte comicbooks.com