Judge — February 6, 1909 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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A LITERARY OFFERING. (the unique proposal of a bashful young author and the altogether customary reply that he received.) Miss Cecelia Morrison. Dear madam: Inclosed please find a contribution which I trust will prove available for your ua It may be of added interest if I state that it isen ly true. I have not offered itelsewhere, poor as it i have first choic stamped and self- however, if by any feeling that, you ought to I am inclosing a addressed envelope, chance you cannot make use of it. Yours sincerely, Harold Scribbler. The World’s Greatest Business Romance Mr. Harold Scribble: Dene “iisei ROM the stage-coach days of — worth—blazing the way for America’s Tam returning your contribution the Bell ‘Telephone to the — wonderful telephone career. of a recent date, which has been present—when one calls up he only company willing 10 examined — by me, but which, I from a Pullman attached to. the pioneer the field had to invent the regret to say, does not seem cighteen-hour special in the Union switchboard before any practical inter- actly th ‘i Station at Chicayo—is not a very long course was possible, It had to invent tion of article span of years. “here are women the apparatus leading to and carrying ‘ itoe. ten: siy & leet whose youthful beauty has hardly from the switchboard. meriis bat: that: heceusncat elec faded who remember the first chrons ‘Then it had to invent the business elcid Geiss tide ah oe ee icled tests of the new Bell to uses of the telephone and convince 4 ; q Remembering that date—1876— people that they were uses, It had Tam nuable to secept, 1, lta tending: banal and all the 1 s development no help along this lit forded me much pleasure, however. Respectfully yours, Cecelia Morrison. FULL PASSENGER LIST. A Kentucky saloon- little weak on his spelling, had a bar which he wished to sell, so he put it out in front of his saloon with a sign at- tached, * For Sail.'* A wag, passing along, noticed the sign, so he thoughtfully added these words, “* For passage, apply at the bung- | hole, "” dogs we w DIDN'T KNOW COFFEE WAS THE Cai aily habits, particularly I drinking, are formed by fol- all the ill health is often fas- A Georgia lady n allowed to drink coffee remember, but even as ever since I achild | had quently refused to retain food. mouth all. the doggic and was, as I found for one to s If all the tree: of If all the prunes our plans should fail, If all the roads were muddy and if all the hilla we You would not ti when you sit d winter-killed and) sre wormy and if all THEY MIGHT BE WORSE ceper, who Was 8 16 41) the flies had stingers and if all the If all our joys were heartaches and our every gain was loss, If every day were rainy or if every day | w dry, Then would there be some slight excuse t and ery. so roundly blamed weak stomach which fre- But houseflies are not hornets and most te of coffee was in my qwo-thirds of what we undertake turns | since, one fact stands ou “The companies comprising the Bell System have had no help. ‘They have had to invent and pioneer their way from the very start, blazing the path for all the rest of the world. “Phe steam-boat and railway revolu- tionized methods of travel. The tele- phone took the place of nothing previously: existing. First, Alexander vented’ the telephone, Watson, enthusiastically that in 1900 there wo telephones in use. ‘There are upwards of 4,000,000 instruments on the Bell lines now. ‘The first switchboard used by the inal Bell Company was made of a of plank, For the whole period of development the Bell system has been building and throwing away switchboards by the millions of dollars? American Telephone & Telegraph Company As the uses were created it had to invent multiplied means of satisfying them, It built up the telephone habit in cities like New York and Chicago and then it had to cope satisfactorily with the business conditions it had created. Tt has from the start created the need of the telephone and then supplied it, In all this pioneering and inventing, still going on, this company has had to soundly finance every undenaking, to keep its securities valuable asa basis of the immense credit necessary to build such a national institution on lines that would prove universal and lastin People who look upon the universal telephone of to-day as indispensable must look upon the universal tle phone of to-morrow as even more so. On this plan alone has the building of the universal Bell System been possible. out exactly right; ‘The weather's mostly wholesome, half I now see that it was only from fol- the eggs we buy are recent lowing the example of my elders that I Things might be quite a whole lot worse formed and continued the miserable "i tany half way de it of drinking coffee. My i pa fully helésway cecent: mained poor, nerves unsteung, fr TRICE EANE, Me QUREAEAN quent headache, and yet I did not su: pect the true cause, eof the stomach re- Attractive Designs Ideas in Sketches and Drawings For writing paper boxes pamphlets, circula MISQUOTATIONS “Another trouble was a bad, muddy mplexion, for which I spent time and He jests at bars who never wore a posters place cards high school dance orders y for er massaging, | stripe. ny results Where frivolity is bliss, ‘tis folly to i was married 1 was asked to be wig try Postum, and, would you beli er ld coffee toper, took to Sweet is revenge—esp from the very first! We made it right other woman. ccuriting to directions on the pac! . lig: to Uirestions on the pack ‘That man that hath a tongu nd it had a most deli or, " Fat once quit coffee, with the happiest no man if with his tongue he wit a won results, I now have a perfectly skin, fine digestion, and he er two yea Programs calendars post cards ially to the hich appear The many requests for dtenyns, ‘1 the from time ta time in ont publications, above forms, have mdicated ther value is wane Sacturers and others Tsay, is tout. LOW PRICES are posulle because the frctare have all appeared in JUDGE. Our staff of ar tats do dastinenrvaly original cweork only ear, smooth tter to ha r to hav played and lost played at all, At Moderate Co Modesty is the best poll specially ® when your charms have withered with age. JUDGE COMPANY Never put off till to-morrow what you | 225 Fifth Avenue NEW YORK CITY need not do to-day. i Prices furaushed upon appliation by fver read the above letter? 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