Life — June 17, 1886 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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FIRST LESSONS. Papa: Yes, GOD MADE EVERYTHING; THE STARS, THE FLOWERS, THE LITTLE LAMBS, THE BUTTERFLIES, THE BUDS— EVERYTHING Daughter : AND DID HE MAKE AUNTIE’S CLOTHES ? TOO HORRIBLE, HE tone of certain of our contemporaries gives color to the rumor that President Cleveland had the effrontery to think of marriage without consulting the editors of the Sun and Tribune, It is almost too sickening to believe. The brutality of the President's behavior is in startling contrast with the delicacy of the New York editor. SEEING THE SIGHTS. RS. WALDO (of Boston): How would you like to | visit the Institute of Technology, Cicely ? Cicely (a guest from Chicago): Oh, Aunt Penelope, you must stay close by me; but I know I shall be frightened. Are there many confined there ? FROM THE SEA SHORE. OLITE but absent-minded bather (to friend up to his neck in water): Ah, Jones, very glad to see you. Won't you sit down? FABLES FOR THE TIMES. THE MICE AND THE CAT. A NUMBER of Mice once held a convention for the pur- pose of adopting means of defence against a Cat that was making herself very pervasive in the neighborhood, and finally decided to put a bell on the monster. A committee appointed for the purpose straightway put a brass bell on the Cat while she was taking an evening nap. But thereafter the sound of the bell was so terrifying that no mouse could sleep when the cat was anywhere in the vicinity, even when there was no real danger; and, finally, the alarm became so general that the neighborhood was entirely cleared of mice, and the Cat held possession of the field. MoRAL: This Fable teaches that an inventor, in devising a new kind of cannon, should make allowance for recoil and back-action. Be what you seem to be, unless you are an actor taking the part of a crank. comicbooks.com