Life — September 19, 1889 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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S well in their way, but there is also a feeling of felicity in that first chill of September when the buttoning of a coat and the thought of an open fire lose their power to bring on a flow of per- spiration. In September, too, what was stifling humidity in summer becomes an out-and-out honest rain. Then the modest and retiring clam shrinks from sight on the bill of fare, and the bold and swaggering oyster assumes, as though by right, his place at the top of the ménu, The hoyden of the beach and rocks becomes once more—for the last time, per- haps—the tripping school-girl, while her older sister turns her thoughts from the short-skirted bathing suit to the low-corsaged ball dress. September brings Nature’s most glorious coloring, and the hay-fever sufferer is the only one of us who thinks it a month to be sneezed at. A CHECK Sult—The wooing of an heiress. THE SUMMER SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY. Prof. C.: YES, MY FRIENDS, CENTURIES AGO, AS FAR BACK IN THE LAPSING CYCLES AS THE DAYS OF THE JURASSIC AND CaR- BONIFEROUS PERIODS, WHEN MY ANCESTORS WERE TRILOBITES, AND YOURS RANGED IN PLATE ARMOR LIKE THE SWABIAN KNIGHTS OF THE BLACK FOREST, THE TWINKLING BEAMS OF LIGHT WHICH THIS INSTANT REACH US FROM YON DISTANT STARS WERE THEN JUST STARTING ON THEIR Way! Breathless Audience (in chorus): My! st SHE KNEW THE VEGETABLE. Mrs. J. AnouT You. Mr, J.: YES, MY DEAR, I'VE BEE Mrs, J.: YOU MAY HAVE THE Owto: CERTAINLY HAVE NOT THE ONION WALK. (severely): JOUN, THERE 1S A VERY STRONG ODOR EATING ONIONS. BREATH, JOHN, HUT YOU ITY physicians who are in town report a gratifying stress of busi- ness from persons who have got back from their summer travels and desire to have their works put in order for fall use. The summer hotel is the doctor's fast friend, One of the conspicuous risks that poor people are spared is the hazard of travel-for-the-health. Many an ill-timed intimacy with an undertaker might have been indefinitely postponed if only the contracting party had been too poor to stir from home. One thing can be said in favor of crossing the sea: the steam- ers have good drainage, and nothing worse than the ordinary Croton bac their drinking water. NE of Corporal Tanner's subordinates decided for his superior's guidance that a dishonorable discharge was no bar to a pension. President Harrison thereupon decided that Corporal Tanner's pension should be no bar to his dishonorable discharge. NEW By Marion Crawford. Books ANT® Mario. New York and Londoa: Macmillan & Company. A Lawyer's Don'ts, lingham, A Nameless Wrestler, Lippincott & Company. Francatelli's Modern Cook. Peterson & Brothers. neirench Conversations, By Francois Derger. New Vork: Published by the author Corenets. By Mary Agoes Tincker. Boston and New York : Hough- ton, Mifflin & Company. Benjamin Franklin. By Jobn T. Morse, Jr. American Statesmen Series. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifftin &' Company. Hansa Towns. By Helen Zimmera, New York and London : ram's Sons, Monopolies and the People. By Charles Whiting and Londoa: G. P. Putnam's Sons. A Hopeless Case, By Luther H. Bickford. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company. By Ingersoll Lockwood. New York: G. W. Dil- By Josephine W, Bates. Philadelphia: J, B. By C. E. Francatelli. Philadelphia: T. B. . P, Pot. aker, C, E. New York comicbooks.com