Life — November 30, 1928 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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A THOUGHT: Better o good name than riches; but to have both is dandy. i A Weekly Periodical FORECAST: Partly Cloudy. Family People Franklin P. Adams, Editor. kkk kk ILLINOIS Now that the peanut-rolling barrow-pushing season is over, god biflllony Fairbank, Joe. Ryer- ‘on, Charlie Collins, Bud and Bill Boyden, ye scribe and several others who bet Democratic, are be- fining to appear on the Chicago Freets without their disguises. w& Considerable hoarse laughter was loosed in the Loop the other night when the letter Sr" refused to burn in the big ed electric sign of Hotel Sherman. ***When you do your Xmas shopping don't forget Ho ME Lirt’s advertisers, who will give ial discounts on gifts purchased by his admirers for ye scribe, who wears a 79% hat and almost any size of necktie so long as it is blue, but no longer uses separable, re- senible cuffs, the same not being considered good form now among the younger set. Illinois readers are re- minded that when they read Hoste Lire they read practically an all- Illinois paper, the new. editorial boss, F. Pierce Adams, being an Mlinoisian who never’ quite got over it, your corr. being the only New Yorker who ever came here without a return ticket, and Kin Hubbard, Neal O'Hara, Chet Johnson and other brilliant corrs. writing almost like Ilinoisians when they are at their very best. —Adet, Ashton Stevens. SPOKANE Everyvsovy here is celebrat- ing Thanksgiving Day with a right good will, though some die- hard Democrats still claim the President's proclamation was mostly Republican prosperity propaganda. © Ben Kizer and some others are working on a city zoning plan, the purpose of which, as we tnderstand it, is to provide a gas station for every corner not already equipped with same. ***Doc Slater of Deer Park has had his official thermometer overhauled, and romises some food old-fashioned low tempera- tures from his home town this winter. “Designing your own card is a popular pastime hereabouts, but the way your corr, feels about it is that it is the spirit that counts, «~ Cupid has been busy in the younger set, and we could tell a good deal, but our lips are sealed. ***Odd Young, our hustling investment scrutnizer, said conh- dentially the other day that he hoj Tusiness will not be too brisk, as he will need lots of time this winter to practice his mashie shots. ***Jim Ford is looking for a man of few words to speak at the Chamber of Commerce annual din- ner. Stoddard King. PENNSYLVANIA Pronisition is becoming serious here for those who had been accustomed to taking it with a grain of salt over the bar. With a few thousand exceptions, no place is violating the law now ex- cept by the quart or pint. wm E. T. Stotesbury, who has achieved success as a banker, has now fully recovered from his recent automobile accident. He at- tributes his rapid recovery to the town’s excellent physicians and the election of Herbert Hoover. Con- gratulations, E. T. But we feel sorry for those who met with au- tomobile accidents and were for Governor Smith. °°°The Philadelphia mail man who some time ago was re- ported shot by a Union soldier who mistook the mail man for a Con- federate soldier — apparently be- cause of his gray unitorm—will be retired soon. And so, ye scribe hopes, will the joke about him. John Forbes. OHIO. Cart Apams, who scribes for our est. cont., the Cincinnati En- quirer, has been invited to join several Xmas Savings Clubs, but it's hard to decide, C. B. says, their colors all being the same, green and red. a Novelist M. Tuttle, who knows Cecil De Mille to talk to, has returned from Hollywood (Cal.). Margh, is it true that Rin-Tin-Tin is to be doubled by one of those talking canines? ***Talked with Billy Schraudenbach, who — delivered some ice to this office during the recent mild spell, and we happened to spring some big words on him, but Bill wasn’t fazed, he having fought J. J. Tunney to a 1o-rd draw in the A. E. F. and being in training now for a comeback. Tupper Greenwald. MICHIGAN Tuere is a peneral misun- derstanding, and for information of same we are asked to state that the tunnel being dug under the Detroit river from Windsor is a vehicular tunnel and not a pipe line, as some may have fondly imagined and desired. «> A card from Norman Hill, editor and sportsman at the Soo, records the first accident of the rabbit season, a rabbit having been injured by shot from a gun, but not seriously, Clarence A. (Duke) Schiller, the noted aviator and Miss Ada P. Greer, were united in the bonds of wedlock at the home of Miss Greer's brother in Detroit. On a beautiful autumn evening when a full harvest moon bathed city and country alike in its silvery glow, when all Nature with her gorgeously colored trees and flow- ers seemed to deck herself for the joyous occasion, and the stars, twinkling in sympathetic harmony with the romantic (continued on Page 33.) Elmer C. Adams. NEW ENGLAND Georce Younc of Lake Mon- inset is thinking of going with inglings’ circus as a strong man next season. George opened a Pull- man window unaided this week, *°°One of our rubberneck wagon lecturers was delivering his regular oration in City Square, Charlestown, last week. ‘‘From this spot,”’ he said, ‘Paul Revere watched for the signal lanterns from the Old North Church before he started his memorable ride."* **But,"* inquired a sightseeing lady from Sioux City, ‘‘how could he ever see the lanterns in the Old North Church with that elevated railroad structure in the way?"* u&& Arnold Horween, the Harvard football coach, has re- turned to his home in Chicago after a successful season of packing the Stadium. It takes those Chi- cago boys to show us the latest wrinkles in packing. ***Lots of local anti-Pro- hibitionists say they never took a single highball before they froze their own cubes with electric re- frigerators. *The Old Farmer's Al- manac was wrong about the weather one day last week. ***Many local families are planning on turkey croquettes for the next few days. Neal O'Hara. NEW YORK Avexanver Woottcorr has got all his Xmas shopping done. *°*Otto H. Kahn of here had dinner at home one night last week. ***Xmas comes on Tuesday this year, also New Year's Day of next year. ***You cannot do better than buy your Xmas gifties of our ad- vertisers. ***Paving of the Queens Blvd. road 18 going on apace, which is faster than how the paving of the Lyons Plains road is going on. wu Friday, Dec. 7, is the birthday of Heywood Broun and he is 40 years of age and don't let him tell you different. *e*Put N. Y. Tuberculosis Xmas seals on your letters, even if you have to do without giving somebody a present. ***Jesse Lynch Williams who has been in N. Y. a good deal dur- ing the past yr. has returned to Princeton, N. J., to live. **°The football season is now officially at an end and what thou- sands of our citizens are going to do Sat. p.m. is something we can- not find out. F. P. A. comicbooks.com