Life — August 16, 1888 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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“A SEA CHANGE.” HE sea, A maid, For bath arrayed. Oh—not afraid A bold advance, A look askance, A dip, A squeal, A stocking heel. - . . [He Sun has proved conclusively that a bet made on a certainty is invalid. In that case all the bets on the Presidential election may as well be called off at once. THE only good Indian is the cigar-store Indian. . . . RINCE WALDEMAR would do well not to accept the Bulgarian throne without a five-year’s contract and a guarantee that his salary will be paid. . . . HE latest sensation on Saranac Lake was the capture of a supposed wild man. The guests of the hotel found him on the mountain-side gesticulating wildly and speaking in an unknown tongue. When caught he apparently could not understand English, but continued to pour forth a torrent of incoherent jargon. It was discovered, however, that he was simply a man from Indiana reciting one of James Whitcomb Riley's dialect poems. lt Before After HE. success of cur Fresh Air Fund is doubtless the cause of as much satisfaction to our generous readers as it is to ourselves. And these joyful sensations are largely due, probably, to the fact that the sight of little children playing upon hot city pavements and hard doorsteps in summer always rubs our ideas of justice in the wrong direction, as country life and country air seem theirs by every right. It is their place and they should be there. The addition of three dollars to this fund may seem an unimportant matter, but it sends another little one to enjoy for a fortnight a life which he, or she, might otherwise never know at all. Previously acknowledged . MCP. P Herbert C. Pell. |. Donald and Clement $3,081.47 + 6.00 20.00 3.00 ExraP. Mills. E. LM. For the Fresh Air Fund” B, and B. oo “In His Name” |". Mite Box, A. and C. Feggie, of San Rafael Alice and Maurice | Cara Mia “ Muser Fi Teddy Harry . Chico”. Mac. + Nantucket, Mass. Alice, R, . Miss L. M.S. HMB.” . gg 2 Elise, Eleanor and Jessie. Proceeds of Children’s Fair given by Miss Emma Harding, assisted by the Misses Mabel, Mattie and Grace Smithors, at Long Beach, L. I., Saturday, July 28, 1888 From the Children’s Friend, Daisy % ee Robby and Freddie Inglehart’. * “Louisiana” The Kensington, Saratoga Springs, N Edw. O, Russell’. Reader. ww. S.R. M. Nicholia Club, N cola, ‘Idaho . D. J. A. é Ethel H.” ‘ Neitah and I Geo. W. Nash C.C.6. Paul, “Baby Dula” “In His Name" Tita. Peter the Pirate | Bessie H. Knapp |. Ernest F. Henderson W.H, : A.J Outerbridge 2 of Mrs. J. B. Burbank, Slasconsett, Mass. S.E.C.. K.C. . # we & For His Dear Sake". ‘ Mrs. C. V. B. O. Bristol, R. 1. Rec'd from London, England V.R ‘ Ethel E. Hooper Gamblers. One of the Whistlers ” ELH, ~ te a Total, . . $3,691.22 . . . T is reported that the Christian at Work has “takenon” the Cosmopolitan, Whether the result will be an Indi- gent Believer or a successful Man of the World is a question for time to solve.