Life — December 7, 1893 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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> LIFE: bigger town house, more country houses, game-preserve in New Hampshire, winter home in Florida, ditto California, castle in Spain—ever so many things yet, and of course a man must travel sometimes, too. He isn’t hoggish about his things, is he ? Dan hoggish ?. The most hospitable, generous man in the world. Whatever he has got there is no trouble in sharing with him, What's the hitch then ? To share him with the things. Do they monopolize him ? No; but you see there are so many of them and only one of him to own them all and keep the run of them! IN THE TROPICS. WHICH HE DROPS, ACCIDENTALLY, AND THE TIGER EXPLODES WITH MIRTH. NV. B. This ts true, 363 If he were a regiment it would be better, Oh, yes; or an orphan asylum, or a boarding school. Still they are good things. Bully things ; and the usufruct of them is not to be sneezed at; but they are not Dan—not the Dan Snapshot that was, and not as good company. And then besides. Well? Dan's income must be something like half a million a year now, and that’s all of fifteen hundred dollars a day, not count- ing Sundays. Suppose it is ? Why, that’s a hundred dollars an hour for every hour he spends out of bed. Well? what of it. Don’t you think it’s a kind of an awful thing to use up whole hours of the time of a hundred-dollars-an-hour man just in playing with him? Wouldn't you be afraid, some minutes, that he hadn't got his two dollars worth? I don’t actually feel that way with Dan. I don’t yield to the impulse. I just play with him as though a dollar an hour was a big price for his time, just as it is for mine. But still. The theory's better than the practice, is it! Inevitably. You can’t waste time that's worth so much. If there is any choice, you waste your own instead. You can’t keep a man waiting at $1.60 a minute. You wait for him because that only costs $1.60 an hour. Yet your time is more necessary.to you, after all, than his is to him, and you are less able to waste it. And all that is detrimental to his usefulness as company. I suppose so, and yet I won't admit it yet. Poor old Dan; poor old chap; he shall never be driven to associate just with millionaires for lack of an old friend who is willing to to waste a day on him. NEW BOOKS. A CYNICS SACRIFICE, By Lewis Vital Bogy. Dillingham. “His Love for Helen.” By J, B, H. Janeway. Dillingham as is 4 , A Comedy of Masks, By Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore. York: D. Appleton and Company. The Romance of a School Boy. By Mary A. Denison. St.Paul: The Price-McGill Company. Relics, By Francis MacNab, New York: D. Appleton and Company. Literary Gems. Fifth Series. New York and London: G, P. Put- nam’s Sons. No Herees. _ By Blanche Willis Howard, Houghton, Miffiin and Company. My Footlight Husband, By Alan Dale, lishing Company. New York: G.W. New York: G. W. New Boston and New York : New York: Cleveland Pub- RS. PEACHBLOW: Why does your husband carry such a tremendous amount of life insurance, when he’s in such perfect health ? MRS. FLICKER: , just to tantalize me. naturally cruel, Men are RANICH: I vas be sufferin’ mit insomnia, dogtor. Doctor: Indeed! KRANICH: Yah. Vhen I vas be asleeb, I vas snore so loud dot I vas geeb mineself avake der whole nighd. comicbooks.com