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ALICE JOYCE OFF STAGE- IN SHOPPING GARB Alice Joca. This new -picture of Alice Joyce shows her as she looks, off stage, just ready to go shopping in Fifth avenue, New York. Miss Joyce, you know, inakes her- own clothes for a pastime. And so she always finds leisure to skim the cream off the lid of fashion, as it were. No ' use to say it again, for, of courgej everyone knows Alice is a Kalem star. - - new yark-. spring is in the air, and clarice, the waiter girl, got a terrible case of spring fever my goodness,she sajrs to one of the uther girls, if i could just get a job of housework out in the subarbs, where i could hear the birds singin, and the cows callin to their mates, i certenly would duck this hash mill well, says the uther girl, why clon't you take a Blant at the ads in the papers, there's plenty of people in the subarbs, lookln for broom swingers so clarice she got a paper, and she picked a ad of a family up in yonkers that wanted a maid in a small famely no' washin she took a trane up to yonkers and she found the house all rite, with 'glass around it and a cuppel of trees, regler suberban stuff the lady Of the house looked clarice all over, and then she says i am sure you will find it a nice place, all you will have to do is the cookin and sweepin and dustin and ironin' and get jimmy and sadie ready for skool and take the baby outrid ing in his buggy and feed the chick ins and cut the grass and help me with the mending and sewing excuse me lady, asks clarice, but is the soil good around here soil, says the lady, what has that got to do with it well, says clarice, i thought in. my spare time i might raise veggitables after which she took thernext trane back to n. y., and she is still stack ing wheats at the old stand as long as you feel springy in your insides, it don't make so mutch diff rense where you are.