Life — January 7, 1886 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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A DANGEROUS CONDITION. EORGE SAMPSON: Is your sister in, Bobby ? Bobby: Yes, she’s in, but she’s sick. She's been sick all day. George Sampson (aside): Ah, then her fears are verified. She told me last night, as I bade here good by, and now too late, I recall how fragile and pale she looked as the moon shone down upon her, that she was filled with a sense of impending danger, a vague, intangible unrest, as it were, that depressed and alarmed her, while I, wretch that I was, smiled at her dis- tress (to Bobby). Is her condition dangerous, Bobby ? Bobby: I guess it is. She never could eat ice cream and lobster salad all the same evening. LIM YOUTH: Yes, I weigh only ninety-nine; how much do you N = = a weigh, Miss Stout ? ee Sates WS Miss Stout : I don’t know, I ’msure; A SA s I never get weighed. S. Y.: Why not? TO THE MANNER BORN. M. S.: To tell the truth, I don’t Lady (visiting Boston): YOU ARE A NICE LITTLE GIRL; AND WHAT IS YOUR NAME? care to give myself a weigh. Child of the soil: 1 AM A STURGIS, BUT MOTHER IS A SALTONSTALL, A NEW DEPARTURE. But atin engagement! Ah, there you have utility ; for Goclehy has at last decided to lend a helping hand to | cannot the young pair stock their future pantries with the the patient and abiding souls who struggle through | presents and thus escape one hymeneal outlay ? long engagements ; and henceforth it will brighten the vari- Again, ungentle reader, if you receive this card : ous stages of lengthy betrothals by those souvenir occasions | that have heretofore been confined to post-nuptial days. - oc 86 886. If, therefore, gentle reader, you receive a sheet of tin, bear- | % as Heke Ege ing this inscription : i} 7 Sax “ Blest be the tie that (eventually) binds.” e°s | 3 = See fos 1876. 1886. PIN SILVER ENGAGEMENT. : A Zuge “* Lives of ‘ the engaged ' remind us ses! & How we got thar, in our prime— | & 2s s : Mr. AND Mrs. HOWE LOonG (ELECT). How we left the girl behind us, |r:|oecercene When her pa remarked the time.” || 8 Be AT HOME. | —From the Idyls of an Imbecite. | Bes : MONDAEA TAN 35)11886. 3° TIN ENGAGEMENT. [ere oe ooo . eae o - MR. AND MRS. WILL WAITE (TO BE) 1 @& ay + (Respond—Silver Plates.) ge. | AT ("Eke°) HOME, = = Soa WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20, 1886. | can you not warm the hearts of gray-haired lovers by send- eee = J them some nickel-plated necessity? Will not the silver know that two souls have reached their ten-year goal, and | influx flush them with the hope that they will soon be able now have a right to pause, and see what their friends will do | to enter the life of which they have dreamed for a quarter of for them in the way of gifts. a century ? A tin wedding is useless, for, after ten years of married Welcome such a practical and beneficial custom. life, the house is already filled with pots and pans. : Wallace Peck. comicbooks.com