Life — July 5, 1929 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass.—Principal Channing H. Greene sent home twenty-five girls of Mary E. Wells High School after he had lectured them on “immodesty in dress.” Mr. Greene said: . “If the parents of the Southbridge High girls do not make their daughters dress properly I will or they will not he students in my school.” CHICAGO—Joseph Kestler said he is afraid to work since the Jones law was enacted and asked to be excused from paying his wife temporary ali- mony during the time her divorce suit is pending. Kestler said he is a bar- tender by trade. ROCKVILLE CENTER, N. Y.— “Never choke your girl friend, just shake her,” Judge John S. Thorp ad- monished Frederick Engle, charged with assault in the third degree. Engle thought his arrest unfair. “I never said anything a month ago when she knocked my tooth out,” he said BUFFALO—Federal Trade Com- missioner Humphrey reports that more than $500,000,000 is annually mulcted from the credulous by fake medicine advertisers, Fat women who want to reduce, and bald-headed men who crave hair, head the sucker list. MILWAUKEE, Wis—Fletcher Williams was getting the worst of an argument with his wife and, as he fled from the house, he pulled a fire alarm box at the corner. Three engine com- panies, two trucks and an_ assistant chief came to help him. The rein- forcements cost him $50, the fine im- posed by the District court. CHICAGO, _Il.—Police Commis- sioner William Russell has ordered 2,000 corpulent cops to reduce at least a pound a month. He says that slim policemen are more efficient, hand- somer and healthier, and, incidentally, poorer targets for bullets, NEW YORK—Donkey serum _ is the new life elixir produced by Dr. Constantine Leventis, a Greek physi- cian, fellow of the American Medical Association. Dr. Leventis states that one shot of donkey serum reduces high blood-pressure, and made the aged stand right up on their hind legs. He has successfully experimented on five men, all over fifty, and a woman of fifty-two. NEWARK, N, J.—A_ man walked up to the desk in the Fifth precinct station and announced that he was crazy. “That's nothing,” answered Lieut. James Bell, “lots of people are.” “Yeah, but I'm real crazy,” said the visitor. Sure enough, he had escaped that afternoon from the Byberry Asy- lum in this city. PROVIDENCE, R. I.—Celebrating their removal to new quarters a de- tachment of the fire department sat down to a special dinner, speeches and a general good time, but during the evening had to answer calls to five fires, all false alarms. There must have been five speakers. HOBOKEN, N. J.—Because he says his bride is sixty-nine years old and not fifty-five, as she represented, Louis Dworkin has started suit for annui- ment in the Court of Chancery at Trenton. LEBANON, Ind.—Sheriff L. M. Sandlin lost the keys to the cell block, so that when Emmet Scott was brought in to serve a three months’ term, the sheriff gave him a set of hack-saws and kept him at work until he had sawed himself into a cell. SACO, Me.—Miss Martha W. Fair- field celebrated her nineticth birthday by taking an airplane ride. She was accompanied by her brother, John Fairfield, who is eighty-eight. APPLETON, Wis.—In order to get around the recently adopted ninety- minute parking limit in the downtown section, business men are equipping their cars with alarm clocks. The clock is sct on leaving the car. When it rings, the owner rushes out, moves his car up. one parking space, and at the next alarm, moves his car back. So far the polict haven't been able to find a loop-hole in the practice. Life Abroad WARSAW, Poland—Prince Vladi- mir Constantinovitch, a nephew of the late Czar Nicholas of Russia, passed an examination as a taxicab driver and accepted a job at $20 a week. PARIS—The gambling dance has arrived as the latest Parisian fad. The floor of the dance hall is marked out in numbered squares, like a rou- lette table. A roulette wheel spins on the wall. When it stops spinning the dance ends and the dancer who hap- pens to be standing on the square cor- responding to the number on the wheel wins. LONDON—Mr. Charles Austin, comedian, was to follow an Ameri- can mouth-organ band at the Palla- dium Theatre. The applause was so prolonged that after waiting three minutes he asked the audience if they wanted him to “go on with his turn,” adding, “I am British.” ROME—A profound scholar of old Latin literature announces that beauty- culture was extensively practiced by the ancients. The flappers of that day dicted to reduce, wore corsets, took mud-baths and used lotions. Nero's wife used a skin remedy composed of ass’s milk and dough. comicbooks.com