Life — April 21, 1892 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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* LIFE: PAT SISSORS ANT THREE maidens went shopping out in the West— West Twenty-third —when the sun went down : Each thought of the color that suited her best For a new Spring hat or a dancing gown, And had it sent home on the morrow. And each for the man she loved did buy ‘A wild and terrible patterned tie ‘That each man wore in sorrow. For women must buy and men must wear, Though the style is enough to curl one’s hair, Or trouble dire to borrow ! —New York Herald. REMARKABLE stories are told of the gift which many public charac- ters have for remembenng the names and faces of comparatively une important persons. {t may be consoling to persons who lack this pleasant faculty that they have distinguished company. Mr. Joseph building, and, at one of the intermediate floors, a man whose face I knew as well as I know yours got in. He greeted me very warmly at once, said it was a number of years since we had met, and was very gracious and friendly. But I couldn't place him for the life of me. 1 asked him as a sort of a feeler, how he happened to be in New York, and he answered, with a touch of surprise, that he had lived there for several years. Finally 1 told him, in an apologetic way, that 1 couldn't recall his name He looked at me for a moment, and then he said, very quietly, that his name was U. S. Grant." “What did you do, Joe ?” his friend asked. “Do 2" he replied, with a characteristic smile.‘ Why, I got out at the next floor, for fear | should be fool enough to ask him if he had ever been in the war !"—Argonaut. Give me a plate of hot beat said the man at the lunch counter. ork with it?" asked the waiter. Yes." Then he turned to the hole in the wall and sang out : ‘Boston and Chicago limited," and beans with pork for one came back.—Detroit Free Press. Mrs, PEASTRAW : Johnny, you stop sliding down that board or I'll whip you. Jouys Mrs, won't. Jefferson has difficulty in remembering names. friend: **L was coming down in the elevator of the Stock Exchange He told this story to a ‘ASTRAW : You stop or I'll—T'll cut your hair. JouNsy (stopping): Yes, ma-a-m.—Ne New York Sun. Chapping, Chafing, Dandruff, Odors from Perspiration. Speedy Relief by Using Packer’s Tar Soap. ‘It Soothes while it Cleanses." Medical and Surg. Reporter, Phita. EDENIA AND Goya lsily. CELEBRATED HATS, —AND— Ladies’ Round Hats and Bonnets and The Dunlop Silk Umbrella. 178 to 180 Fifth Avenue, bet. 22d and 234 Sts., and 18: Broadway, near Cortlandt St., NEW YORK. Palmer House, Chicago. 914 Chsetnut St., Phila. © Agencies in all Principal Cities. Gold Medal Awarded, Paris Exposition, 1889, CROUCH & FITZGERALD, NEW YORK, MAKE THE MOST RELIABLE Trunks, Bags, Dress Suit Cases, Hat Cases, # Por American and Buro- pean Travel. 14 Cortlandt St., west of Broadway. 723 Sixth Avenue, below 42d St. 688 Broadway, below 4th 8t. This last store formerly at $36 Broadway. Sunp vor 4 Catatocus. SPAULDING& Co. (INCORPORATED), Gold and Silversmiths, Have recently added to their establishment a Stationery Department which will be quite on a par with the other branches of their business, ané which will, it is hoped, maintain the reputation of the house. Messrs. Spaulding & Co. are prepared to furnish the newest and most correct formsin fine Stationery, Blegantly engraved Wedding, Dinner or other Invitations in the most approved fashions. Cresta, Monograms and Address Dies executed in the 6nest manner, Correspondence is solicited. State and Jackson Sts., Chicago, Ill. 36 Ave. de l'Opera, Paris. The excellence and beauty of the CUT GLASS made ty J. HOARE & CO., Corning, N. ¥., is proven by its extensive use by Messrs, Tiffany, Spaulding & Co. and the Gorham Co. WHITING’S FINE PAPERS. What is nicer than to have your stationery in good form ? Every one who has used Whiting’s elegant correspondence papers, concedes them to be the finest and most correct of all makes. They are made in all sizes and tints, and can be obtained of stationers generally. Wurtinc Paper Co., 150 and 152 Duane St., New York. comicbooks.com