Life — August 10, 1893 — page 13: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

AUCTION TERMS. - LIFE: are seldom rich and beautiful. A RARE COMBINATION. Do you think that ideal wives are hard to find? Yes. Deaf mutes are not uncommon, but they E FIANCE: Why have you never introduced me to your mother, darling ? La FIANCE lost two fianceés 93 THE SERENADE. NDER my casement, as I pray, My lover sings my cares away With mary a half-forgotten lay. He leans against the linden tree And sings old songs of Arcady That he knows well are loved by me. All through the eve the sweet strains float Like wind-blown rose leaves, note by note, Over the great wall and the moat. Up to my window till they teem Into my soul; and almost seem To be there even when I dream. And his heart trembling beats with bliss, If I but throw him one small kiss, Just as [ now throw this—and this. Tom Hall. A SAFEGUARD. Gerald, my mother is a widow and I have to widows already. Ant Out comicbooks.com