Life — April 19, 1929 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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BOSTON—Vanishing knees and the lengthening skirts noted in Easter parades have brought hope to the strug- gling textile industry of New England, for each inch added to skirt lengths means an increased consumption of millions of yards of cotton and woolen goods. AKRON—Co-eds at the University of Akron specify the “ideal husband” as follows: Height, 6 ft.; Weight, 190; Age, 25; Looks, plain; Hair, curly black; Income, over $2500; Vices, a little light gambling, drinking and pro- fanity. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—P. T. L. Put- nam, explorer, has just returned from a year in the Congo. He says the na- tives would be the happiest people in the world, were it not for the introduc- tion of civilization. INDIANAPOLIS—Aaron L. Ever- ettam was picked up on a vagrancy charge. When arrested he said that he had left home because the family kept the radio going day and night, and he couldn't get any sleep at all. NEW YORK—Arthur Hammer- stein is the first to take advantage of the talking movies in connection with the legitimate stage. He will use a new device that dispenses with the or- chestra in the pit and uses sound syn- chronization for the musical score. DETROIT—A new experiment is to be tried here wherein the pedestrian has a chance to regulate the traffic lights for his own safe passage across the street. All he has to do is push a button and a green light will fash. NEW YORK—Tita Ruffo has signed a contract for $350,000 with the talkies. “I felt that this new medium gives the artist a better chance to put himself across,” said Ruffo, justifying his action. And, of course, the $350,000 will help too. CHICAGO—Miss Nellie Vedder has taken her master of arts degree in the domestic art of dishwashing at the University of Chicago. She applied herself diligently to the theory and practice of dishwashing three times a day, while one helper timed her with a stop-watch and another counted every movement. She discovered that she could wash a day's dishes and get them in the cupboard in twenty-two minutes and thirty-one seconds. BALTIMORE—Dr. George Walker says that the absence of lime in their diet. makes women nervous and men cruel. He declares that he can stop divorce by putting more lime in mar- ried folks’ diet. HOBOKEN, N. J.—A new locomo- tive built for the Lackawanna has a horn to warn motorists at grade cross- ings. The idea is, perhaps, that folk will heed an auto horn when they would pay no attention to a steam whistle. PALM BEACH, Fla—Edward T. Stotesbury, Philadelphia financier and society notable, contributed a rendition of “The Old Family Tooth Brush That Hangs by the Sink” as the high light of a recent celebration by the Yacht Club at Olympia. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.—Mrs. Dolly Blumlein visited Dr. Mortimer Smokler with a toothache. The doctor pulled seven teeth without finding the faulty one. Mrs. Blumlein became enraged and left for an attor- ney’s office to file suit for $50,000. DETROIT—The Parke Davis Com- pany knows that scientists are often careless about their personal appear- ance. Therefore they have hired a bar- ber whose duty it is to take care of the ninety-seven research workers in their employ. ALBANY, N. Y.—Edward Myers was accepted by a marine recruiting sergeant here, but Paris Island traini station sent him back because he hada bathing girl tattooed on one arm. The recruiting sergeant hurried Myers off again to his tattooer with orders to have some clothes tattooed on his bath- ing beauty. DODGE CITY, Kan—A woman handed the postmaster here a parcel to be weighed for mailing the other day. “What does this parcel contain?” he asked. “My daughter's party dress,” the woman replied. The postage was four cents. CLEVELAND—Arguing that “The Face On the Barroom Floor” no longer makes good dry propaganda, George C. Southwell, secretary of the Cleve. land Dry Maintenance League and dis- trict superintendent of the Ohio Anti- Saloon League, has under preparation a new campaign of education, which is to be broadcast with a theme song. “America, the Beautiful” is to be used, according to Southwell. The song will be followed by talks on pro- hibition’s part in the creation of the America of today. WILDWOOD, N. J.—Prohibition Officer Swimme boarded the “Nauti- lus” and noticed three men moving a packing case. “What's in that box?” he demanded. “Alligators,” said the captain. “Boloney,” said the officer as he gave the case a terrific kick. It collapsed—and out crawled 200 alli- gators! AMARILLO, Tex—Gene Howe, editor of the News-Globe, wrote that Mary Garden’s singing in a perform ance of “Thais” here was absolutely terrible. Mary Garden thereupon said that Howe was a “dirty otter”, a “damned swine”, and didn’t know what he was talking about. comicbooks.com