Life — November 28, 1889 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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TWO VOICES. BALL last night Priscilla gave, And all were there, both saint and knave, And girls, who, yet untaught in sighs, Let laughter loose from lips and eyes ; Yet I, Priscilla’s willing slave, Cared not for girl, nor saint, nor knave, But only for that moment's space When I might look into her face And tell the love herself must know, And listen to her answer low, Led on by thought of what's in store, The foremost guest I reached her door, Was ushered in, and heard the voice Was wont to make my heart rejoice; DOMESTIC ECONOMY FOR YOUNG READERS. But changed—in tones no longer low, PRINCIPAL IMPORTS. & EXPORTS OF As I was used that voice to know, Kentucky, The frightened butler she upbraids, Then turns, full cry, upon the maids. (CONTRIBUTORS to American and British periodicals will learn with dis- The guests arrive, and as I go may that a large number of unpublished poems, said to be workmanlike 1 hear again those accents low. and marketable, have been discovered among the papers of the late Matthew The curtain’s up and she's all sn Arnold. His literary executors propose to put them on the et forthwith, All loveliness and gentle wiles. Is it quite the fair thing to bear the poetry market with such accumulations? Too early once, but, thanks to fate, Ought not a man’s verses, like his checks, to become inconvertible the instant his For the peace of a lifetime not too late. breath passes out of his body? A great multitude of baffled communicators RMR, seem to reply: ‘ Yes, oh, yes ~ — ~~ GERMAN COUN Eins, zwei, RK. WABASH: You can never make me believe that all knowledge drei! comes from without, Miss Brattle, for | &now that wy ideas are inane. Goer WORK WITH A WILL A Party Man—The caterer, —Contesting it. NE of the funny things among the Chicago stock arguments in its own be- half is that New York is not entitled to the Fair as it is more a foreign than an American city. Oh, Chicago, Chicago, how funny you are when you try to be anything but hustling and en- terprising and vigorous! You, the center of Anarchism. whose mainstay of belief in this country is that the Ameri- can Government is a failure and should be destroyed! You, under whose sheltering wing the Clan-na-Gael has grown to a power which enables it to do secret murder and defy the American law! You, whose divorce courts are a threat to the happiness of every American home! You, with your hordes of Bohemians, Slavs and Swedes, who cannot even understand the American language! Vow, an American city? Save the mark! HE College President may not know every- thing, but he knows enough to know how much knowledge there is in the persons who call him a “mugwump” because he votes ac- cording to what he knows, THEY ALWAYS ARE. HE | ap" bably selected 1 be She: PATTY'S NEXT TOUR OF THE UsiTED » letter was probably selected as a personal pronoun cause STATES 18 REALLY TO BE A FAREWELL ONE, it is an upright character, which no man would be ashamed of claim- He: OF COURSE IT 18, SHE FARES WELL ON ing as his own. ALL HER FINAL TOURS, comicbooks.com