Life — October 26, 1928 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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“Aut Scissors aut Nullus” How the jealous husband in town pictured his wife at the shore. How it really was, —Gutitercz (Mapnip). We have all heard of ‘‘calf love,’* but it remained for the Herald-Examiner compositor yesterday to set up the word “honeymooing.”* —Chicago Evening Post. SPECIFICATIONS Ix a small gathering the other night, Austin Strong, the playwright, who is casting a new show, was discussing with a lady the difficulty of filling one particular part. “1 want,”” he said, **a young man who looks like Lindbergh, who is tall, blue-eyed, who has sex appeal, a sense of Who humor, and an air ot distinction.”* “So do 1,"* sighed the lady.—New Yorker Mok: The Bought a Canoe. —Bues Humor. Aviator THE DAY'S WORK Beaxice, three years of age, was asked by her daddy, who had just returned from work, what she had been doing all day. “Oh,” she answered, “just setting Mother crazy.""—Baltimore Evening Sun. Lawyer: Answer the question—yes or no! Wrrness: Yeah.—Ladies’ Home Journal. Avertviatto—''Kiss and make."* —New York Graphic, |THE Postaax: And to think I haven't had a letter for six months! —L'Ireasictant (Paris). peu verya 3 res MODERN LULLABY “The soothing and soporific effect of blue is extraordinary.”"—-Tit-Bits. Step, baby, do, Your room is done in baby blue, Your little crib is painted, too, In that soporific hue. (But baby doesn’t seem to mind; Oh, dear, perhaps he’s color blind?) —Spokane Spokesman-Review. Representative or Larce Furnisttinc House: And how would you like this room furnished? Exactinc Pusticity Acent (examining artist's] Pretentious Proriteer: What about Quatorze drawing of crowded liner): Um! Not bad—but | the Fifteenth?—Punch, you've got a passenger on the second deck who isn't smiling. —Prarson’s Werxty (Lonvo). Ix some homes the clock, like father, is always wrong.—Cincinnati Enquirer. SECOND NATURE Beatia, aged ten, had been taught that hibis were things to be watched and that a bad hie once acquired was very hard to get rid of. Observing a couple passing her home ina a, petting and enjoying their drive at the same tine, Bertha remarked: “That boy and girl beter careful or that is apt to become a habit, isn't Mother?""—Indianapolis News. A CASE FOR OBSERVATION Upox the list for the alienist Inscribe the name of Nutley Neill. He went for a ride on the Lower East Side With a Hoover plate on his automobile. —L. H. R., in New York Times Tue press agent for the National sud burlesque theater in Detroit doesn't waste 2 words. The marquee contains this story: “Lips, Hips and Pips.""—Variety Cauter: Is your husband a fast wnter? Porr’s Wire: Fast? Why, I've got out lines of washing while he’s been writing fe of poetry! —Everveooy’s Weexty (Loves) We'tt bet our old friend Gen. D. Butler smiled in his sardonic way whe? saw in the paper about that official order © % up Philadelphia absolutely withi hours.—Ohio State Journal. comicbooks.com