Life — June 7, 1929 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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CIMMARON, Kan.—Mr. and Mrs. L. Wilkerson, eighty-seven and eighty respectively, go to jail to serve a sen- tence for possessing liquor. The aged woman's chief concern is for the tur- keys and chickens, but their children agree to look after their parents’ farm until the jail term is completed. BOSTON—Mrs. J. J. Storrow, chair- man of the Better Homes committee, objects to the terms “housekeeper” and “housewife.” She suggests “home hostess” and “budget keeper.” How about “bridge player?” ITHACA—Dr. Papez’s study of the brain of Prof. Wilder, late of Cornell, explains the latter’s fanatical anti- smoking crusading. His olfactory cen- ter was atrophied, making it impos- sible for him to appreciate tobacco. COLORADO SPRINGS—Bill Wil- liams of Rio Hondo, Texas, has started on his twenty-six days’ task of push- ing a peanut up Pike’s Peak with his nose. Bill lost an election bet, and now with pads on his knees and a two-foot wire “pusher” on his nose, he’s at the job of paying his bet. DETROIT, Mich.—William Hurley of Rochester, N. Y., arrested for de- stroying a fence around the High School building while on a spree, broke down and said he would be ruined professionally, if he was sen- tenced for such a low-grade crime. He begged to be sent to the peniten- tiary for a major crime, as all his previous sentences had been for vio- lence. His request was granted when he proved that he had broken into a postoffice at Camden, Mich. CHICAGO, II.—Three children of Douglas Bussie appeared before Judge Horner, asking that their father be restrained from “squandering his for- tune in the courtship of a young woman.” Father is eighty-four, and the children are all over fifty, The Judge ruled that there is no age limit to love. TOMS RIVER, N. J.—The Rev. Ira E. Hicks declared from the pulpit, “This town is defiled with sin,” be- cause a seventeen-year-old boy kissed a girl in a high-school play. “There was also card playing,” he added, “a thing offensive to all Evangelical Prot- estants.” NEW YORK CITY—C. Harold Smith, known as “The Carbon King,” offers $1,000 for the best suggestion as to the disposal of his fortune of $15,000,000. Believing that _ philan- thropy is opposed to nature’s law of the survival of the fittest, he has con- scientious scruples about leaving his money to charity. NEW YORK—Chick Gum, Chi- nese cook, ambitiously attempted to learn flapjack making in a cafeteria. He flipped up the first flapjack so in- expertly, that it landed in his open shirt, burning him so severely that he was taken to a hospital. PATERSON, N. J.—It cost Joseph Liptrot $27.50 to kiss his wife. The Liptrots drove into town, stopped and Liptrot leaned over and gave his wife a kiss, just as Officer Barrow came along and arrested him for “causing a public nuisance by parking after dark.” Liptrot had no trouble proving that his wife was his wife, but Recorder Hughes fined him anyway. TRENTON—Meyer Pearl at sixty had never ridden in an automobile. When he went on his first ride the other day the machine was struck by a Pennsylvania train, but no one was injured. Pearl says his first ride is his last. CHICAGO—Thiry millionaire commuters from Lake Forest have hired a special club car for the daily round trip, with a handpicked porter to attend to their comfort and serve buffet lunches. It will cost them $15,000 a year extra. HAVERHILL, Mass.—To learn what prisoners like to read, Byron W. Fuller, assistant librarian, will volun- tarily serve a year behind the bars. Most of them probably get Lire. CHICAGO, Ill.—Little Chicagoans know their bandits. John Carrol took his three little daughters to the drug store for a treat. “Come,” said Mr. Carrol, after they had finished their sodas, “now we'll start home.” “T think we'd better wait till that man gets through holding up the cashier,” said eight-year-old Helen. Sure enough, papa saw, and the children waited quietly until the robber departed with $800. SAGA, Pa.—When Walter E. Cole- man, truckman, found that a load of household goods he was moving was in flames he didn’t stop to hunt up a fire-alarm box or to telephone to the fire station in Waverly across the New York state line from here, but stepped on the gas and took the fire to a fire station a quarter of a mile away, where the flames were extinguished with chemicals. ATLANTIC CITY—Emptying a can of red paint over a husband while he is in the bathtub constitutes ground for divorce, in the opinion of Vice- Chancellor Ingersoll. He recommend- ed today that a divorce be granted Granville H. Steelman, local insurance man. In addition to the paint episode, Steelman asserted that his wife Ger- trude, once threw a whole dinner, in- cluding pots and pans, at him. CHICAGO—Under the will of their uncle, Thomas A. Kelly, filed in Cali- fornia, his nieces, Sybil Sterling and Iris MacPherson of Chicago, must roll dice for the possession of his $2,400 diamond ring. comicbooks.com