Life — May 3, 1929 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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Buorro: Poor ole Sam. Don't he look natural, though! Little Rambles With Serious Thinkers The most encouraging trend in pub- lic opinion today on the prohibition issue is the evidence everywhere that the American people are coming to realize that the Eighteenth Amend- ment can be, must be and is being en- forced as the law of the land. Senator Sheppard, of Texas. Women wear short skirts not to at- tract attention but to avoid it. William Lyon Phelps. In reality all life is a school. Bernarr Macfadden. Some of the most fascinating women in the world are homely as mud fences. Dorothy Dix. School girls should be either dressed or undressed; half measures are poor measures. Arthur Brisbane. That marriage mellows and civilizes the average man, I do not gainsay. But that is precisely my objection to itso far as I personally am concerned. I am already too highly civilized. George Jean Nathan. Tt was a bad day for the world when Boston held that terrible tea party in her harbor. St. John Ervine. I never tire of Niagara Falls. George Matthew Adams. Ze LGR Little Known Phases of American: Industry Steaming the salt out of salted pea- nuts to make them mild and durable, Treating coat seams with sulphuric acid to promote easy opening. Compressing air for the filling in chocolate eclairs. Making tests to find out if mauve- tinted gasoline is more powerful than old rose. Vulcanizing pure rubber over layers of tough, enduring cord in the man- ufacture of restaurant roast duck. Designing new outlets for fountain pen ink. Preparing tin whistles, castanets and saxophone reeds for insertion in the joints of automobile bodies. Checking up to see that each pack- age of cigarettes contains one cigarette with a piece of tree trunk in it. Collecting the drawings on telephone scratch-pads for necktie patterns. First Des (listening to radio): 1 love that announcer’s voice. Srconp Des: It’s nice, but he's awfully conceited about it. I hear he eats plank steaks to keep up the tim- bre. “Don't interrupt, Father! Egbert is reading one of his Flights of Fancy.” “Well, he’s about to make a forced landing.” comicbooks.com