Life — November 16, 1928 — page 4: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“The Salad Bewwh,” a distinttvve feature of Southern Pacific dining cars “Sunset Limited New Orleans — Los Angeles — San Francisco Crisp, savory salad—as many servings as you wish —deftly lifted from the big Salad Bowl to sparkling china . . . dining cars restocked daily with freshest produce of the countryside ... and through the car window, clicking past, the fascinating panorama of South or West. On to California! Only Southern Pacific offers choice of four routes to California. Stop over anywhere. Go one way, return another, on fast, fine “Sunset Limited”, “Golden State Limited’, “San Francisco Overland Limited”, or “Cascade”. Southern Pacific Four Great Routes Please write your address and name below, tear off and mail it to E, W. Crarr, traffic manager, 310 S. Michigan Boulevard, Chicago, for free, interesting book. with illustrations and animated maps, “How Best to See the Pacific Ceast™, Publishing Com 598 Madison rch 3, 1879. ited in RHYMED REVIEWs All Kneeling By Anne Parrish. Harper & Brothers Or Grecian Helen’s baneful line, A girl to set your senses reeling, Was Christabel before whose shrine Devoted throngs were always knecling, From winsome childhood beamed upon By neighbors quaint and Philadelphish, She fooled them all but Uncle John, Who saw that she was wholly selfish, Her verses having made a stir Among her friends and near relations (You'll know just what her poems were From sundry well-devised quotations), She sought Bohemian atmosphere With Gotham's pen and pencil shovers And tried to help her own career By stealing other ladies’ lovers. This ruthless Circe, Christabel, To please and win the most exacting Performed the angel's réle so well That she herself believed her acting. She learned the trick of snaring me! And dropping them as things de- manded, And calling them to heel again, Yet always seeming sweet and candid. The hopes of Elliott she wrecked To marry Curtis, free in spending; She’s grabbing Nick the architect From Ellen when the book is ending. The moral, somewhat worn and gray, Is not the sort to please the parson: A charming jade can get away With murder, burglary and arson. Arthur Guiterman. THE “DAMNED SHOVEL” SCHOOL Tite practice, so common in popular books and plays, of calling a spade a spade, is bow! lead to a reaction. It will not take long for the customers to get tired of hearing bad words spoken on the stage, and seeing them printed in best sellers. We do not predict that the rea- tion will take us all the way back to the old- fashioned asterisks, but we are confident that before long it will be considered more effective to call a spade a sp—de. —Spokane Spokesman-Review FINE LOOKOUT “Daauine,”’ cried a young wife as darling came home from the office, ‘there's going to be a new grocery store in the neighborhood.” “Well, well!’ he exclaimed, ‘We certainly are prospering. We haven't exhausted our credit with the other one yet.” —American Legion Monthly. “J. H. Dean Setts His Interest 1x Gry."— Headline in the Midland (Tex.) Telegram. Is it as easy as that?—New Yorker. 16, 1923. Ent'd as 2nd Class Matter, June 8, 188%, st 8. at'd as latter, Jui Copyright 1928, Life Pub. Co., in U.S., England and comicbooks.com ~) [om ieee