Life — May 17, 1929 — page 44: what you’re looking at

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42 Life eTANTALIZING TEABERRIES®| The flowers that bloom in the Spring For freshness they haven't a thing On this snappy gum! Why don’t you try some— XK TEABERRY’S the berries, by jing! ff $25 was paid to Eva Babcock, reaver] Springs, N.C., for this winning last line. publish. If a winning last line is duplicated, each person submitting the duplicated line will be paid $25. All entries must be mailed on ot beforethe date indicated onthe blank. Get your “Tantalizing Teaberry” blank Fill in that missing line! Mail us the blank. today! Try CLARK'S TEABERRY GUM ‘We will pay $25 for each last line that we for “last-line™ inspiration. Clark Brothers Chewing Gum Company, Pittsburgh, U. S. A. WIN 825 You can get from any CLARK'S Chewing Gum Dealer FREE “Tantalizing Teaberry” blanks, each containing a“ TANTALIZING TEABERRY " with the last line missing. mws THE BERRIES / eCLARK’'S Teaberry Gum...a different Flavore “What—no parking here, officer?” “Well, hardly any.” Mrs. Pep's Diary (Continued from Page 21) could not have been more pleased had I been ten years old. A great com. pany this night for dinner, and I gave them green turtle soup, fillet of sole garnished with chopped almonds, sad- dle of mutton flanked by asparagus and creamed potatoes, a fine green salad and a dessert of frozen peaches. Afterwards to see “The Perfect Alibi,” spotting the villain with such dispatch as to render my enjoyment of the sub: sequent events almost negligible, al- beit there was sufficient gun-flourish- ing to keep me uncomfortably on the edge of my chair. And it did scem to me a great pity that the exigencies of the story required the taking-off of the most attractive character in the first. act, even though Shakespeare himself was obliged to kill off the dashing Mercutio in order to save his plot. Aprit. 27—The first really fine day in weeks, so Samuel and I off carly by motor to search for pleasure in the countryside, and when I did start to count my money, Samuel did forbid me to proceed, saying that I unfail- ingly announced that I had lost some of it, a fatality which he had never seen substantiated by a careful check- ing-up. Reaching Ruth and fack White's at Talmadge Hill, they did put me in a comfortable chair overlooking the brook and the old mill and tell me to invite my soul, so I did ponder this and that, in especial why jail matrons are always fat women, and how a great many of my acquaintances are circumspect more through mental incomprehension than through moral restraint. A book of Emily Dickin- son's hitherto unpublished verse on « table beside me, and, though it be heresy to say it, I have never been able to derive from her the quality which most of our best literary critics re yard as so precious. My state of mind at the moment is perfectly reflected by a sonnet wrote years ago for the \t lantic Monthly by Mistress Adams, who did teach me logic at Smith Colle; and I do here set it down as well I rerhember it: I died this year, though still 1 glimpse the sun. For, watching one by one lives frail and old Dwindle and dim and lapse into the cold With neither joy nor sorrow to have done, I too have come to think the thoughts of one Whom no ties bind and no regrets can hold, Who has felt the ultimate change, and so must fold (Continued on Page 48) comicbooks.com