Life — February 13, 1890 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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up to the stock-company standard, but furnish an efficient support. Taken all in all, the performance is a most entertaining one. Our prohibitionist friends may object to Senator Rivers's outspoken com- mendation of the cocktail habit, but they must remember that he is portraying a character to which the cocktail was a very essential adjunct. Metcalfe. ED: How is it you have kept from marry- ing, being such a ladies’ man? NED: By never being in love with less than three girls at once. MY WISH. ASTE, Cupid, to my lady fair, No New Year greeting can bring glee ; This sofily to her speak : For only this I pine: No Easter offering I care, ‘Tis that ma belle will give to me Nor Christmas gift would seck. Her heart for Valentine! H. EL W. IN BERLIN. She: 1 HAVE NO FAITH IN THOSE REPUBLICAN IDEAS, BREEDING DOES TELL, WHATEVER YOU MAY SAY. JUST LOOK AT THAT SPECIMEN, FOR INSTANCE, WOULD ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY EVER ENABLE HIM TO PASS FOR ONE WHO WAS dorm A GENTLEMAN? How DOES HE GET HERE, BY THE Way? He: ParTLy, I SUPPOSE, BECAUSE HE 18 A HOHENZOLLERN AND FIRST COUSIN TO THE EMPEROR. comicbooks.com