Life — November 20, 1884 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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He: HOW sNUBBY YOU ARE WITH THESE YOUNG MEN! THAT LAST ONE IS QUITE BROKEN UP. She (who lives in a collegiate town) : PEOPLE'S CHILDREN. I WONDER HOW? WONDER how they can have met, These two, who, where the blue waves wet The shining sands, are passing by— She looking sweetly coy and shy, He pleased, though rather cool as yet ? An hour or more I see they let Slip quickly by. How can they get Such pleasure from the sea and sky? I wonder how? They come, when now the sun is set, Humming some sweet old love duet, She bears his cane perched upon high, He swings her hat as they pass nigh. —Some day ‘twill break ; this witching net, 1 wonder how ? B., JR. I REALLY CAN NOT HELP IT; I AM 50 TIRED OF EDUCATING OTHER A RECOMMENDATION. R. LABOUCHERE recommends the following pass- age in “Carlyle’s Life” to those young pests who, without a real notion of music, make the air around them hideous by their everlasting strumming on a piano: “The | miserable young woman in the next house to me spends all | her young bright days, not in learning to darn stockings, sew shirts, bake pastry, or any art, mystery, or business that will profit herself or others ; not even in amusing herself or skip- ping on the grass plots with laughter of her mates, but simply and solely in raging from dawn to dark, to night and mid- night, on a hapless piano, which it is evident she will never in this world render more musical than a pair of barn clappers! The miserable young female!" Dk. BURCHARD ought to receive a sinner-cure from the | new administration. It's a nil wind that blows nobody good. comicbooks.com