Life — May 7, 1891 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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*LIFE: Os Howard Street, the other day, a benevolent old gentleman be- held a little 6-year-old girl walking gravely along with a basket on her arm, Patting the chubby tot under her chia, he said : ** And where are you going, my pretty maid ?"” “Give thee good-day, graybeard,” replied the midget. father bade me to the shambles hie for a fat haunch.” W-w-hat 2” ejaculated the old party. Haply thou knowest him—the good man Skidmore ?” inquired the tiny dame. “No 0-0," said the gentleman, much puzzled. ‘ You're a quaint little thing. | Come with me and I'll buy you some candy.” ** Alack, Lam forbid to tarry, gentle sir, I need be blythe. patience stays upon my coming. Good-bye, then,” said the old gentleman, “Rest you, merry master,” and dipping a little courtesy the mite trotted off. “Bless me, what an extraordinary child,” said the gentleman to a bystander. “On! that’s nothing,” replied the other. ‘You see, she’s the daughter of the heavy tragedian at Morosco’s Theatre, and'I suppose they talk so much of that kind of lingo in the family that it comes natu- ralto her, Don't hear anything else, you see."—San Francisco Ex- aminer. “My ‘Their SoorTHING AND REFRESHING are characteristics commending Mrs, CHUGWATER, arrayed in her best gown, was sitting for her photograph. “Your expression—pardon me—is a little too severe," said the pho- tographer, looking at her over his camera. ‘+ Relax the featuresa trifle. A liyle more, please. | Wait.a moment." Fle came back, made a slight change in the adjustment of the head rest, then stood off and inspected the result “Now, then, Ready. Beg pardon—the expression is still a little too stern.’ Relax the features a trifle. A little more, please. Direct your gaze at the card on this upright post and wink as often as you feel like it. Allready. One minute again—pardon me—the expression is still too severe, Relax the “Samantha!” roared Mr. Chugwater, coming out from behind the screen and glaring at her savagely, ‘smile, darn you! smile!” —Chicago Tribune. Port (to his practical friend): Is there anything more beautiful than to see those magnificent swans float upon the lake's silver sur- face? How | would love to be like them! ** What! Go around with one’s stomach on that cold water all the day! Not for me, thank you."—Fliegende Blatter. ** L GATHER,” said the Boston lady, 't from the conversation of m; nephew, that firemen are in the habit of using rubber hose at their labors.” Yes. “That, I presume, is so that they won't get their feet wet ;" and the Boston lady returned to her book with an air of entire satisfaction over having solved a difficult problem."— Washington Post, ARE OF ACKNOWLEDGED SUPERIORITY. CELEBRATED HATS, —ANp— Ladies’ Round Hats an ts and The Dunlap Sik Umbrella. 178 & 180 Fifth Avenue, bet. 224 and 23d Sts. and 181 Broadway, near Cortlandt St. NEW YORK. Palmer House, Chicago. 914 Chestnut St., Phila. GB Agencies in all Principal Cities. Gold Medal Awarded, Paris Exposition, 1889. FLANDRAU & C0. Packer's Tar Soap FOR Bath and Shampoo. 372, 374, 376 Broome St., and Broadway, SI st St.& 7th Avenue. Elegant Spring and Summer CARRIAGES FOR TOWN AND COUNTRY, Lowest Prices for Prompt Cash at Both Repositories, ALL NOVELTIES IN FOR ONE OR TWO HORSES. Variety of Second-Hand Vehicles. EDENIA AND Goya leily. ¥OOD OR PAINT ny By Be Uy, dy OAKLEY’S Queen Cologne. The tinest specimen of colonia: decoration in the city—the new dining-room at Taylor's St. Denis restaurant. famous for its cufrine GAPHARTSHORN'S suADe Rott ERs, Beware of Imitations, NOTICE AUTOGRAPH comicbooks.com