Life — January 3, 1895 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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

— A HOLIDAY DREAM. ¢ YER SEE I WUZ CARRIED AWAY ON A YALLER CLOUD INTO A BIG OPE WIIERE THERE WUZ NOTHIN’ BUT DOLLS—BLONDES, BLUENETTES, NIGGERS, AND SANTA CLAUS TOOK ME BY THE HAND AN’ LED ME UP TO ONE 0" UTIFULLEST DOLLS I EVER SEEN, ALL GOLD LACE AN’ SPANGLES, AN’ IT COULD TALK AN’ SING, TOO. (/n rapture) OH, IT WUZ TOO LOVERLY FOR ANYTHINK ! An’ SANTA CLAUS WUZ JUST PUTTIN’ IT INTO MY HANDS WHEN I WOKED UP! Chorus: OM, WHAT A SHAME! DIDN'T YER WANT TER DIE? IMPORTANT NOTICE. HE Regular Monthly Meeting of the Advanced American Business Women’s Union will be held on Thursday next at Three P. M. A full attendance is earnestly requested, as a number of important papers will be read and discussed. The subjects will be as follows: “ Are Boys Worth Raising ?” - - - - By Lena Spinster, M. D. “ Practical Hints on Sharpening Lead Pencils,” By Mary Sharpe Cutter, C. E. “Women Who Have Ruled the World,” (25¢ Paper), - By Susan Meekly. “Ten Cent Lunches,” - - - - - - By Sarah Cruller. (Author of the Saw-dust Cook Book.) “ Women as Financiers and Bankers,” - - - - By Beatrice Spendit. “ Where Would Men be Without Their Mothers,” By Caroline Eudora Oldstyle. “ Are Bloomers Becoming ?"" es By Bessie Stout, “ Street Cars,” 1. “ How to Get On and Off,” ) 2, ‘ Who Should Pay the Fare?” 3.“ Squelching the Conductor,” “ Feminine Traits in Browning and Emerson,” —- - By Lucy Ringlets, Lemonade /rappé will be served in the Blue Room. N. B,—Members whose fines for non-attendance at the meeting amount to more than twenty-five cents are requested to pay them immediately, or their names will be posted on the bulletin board in accordance with By-law XVII. HELEN REUYTER, Secretary. - ee By Carrie Ryder. (Athletic Instructor B. Y. W. C. A.) POOR CUPID. Kisses ‘may be conveniently divided into two classes—those which belong to and are intimately associated with the warmer passions of the heart and those which are purely conventional. In view of the exacting demands of modern sanitary prin- ciples, in neither case is the habit desirable or even permissible.— The Medical Press and Circular, £6 FQEWARE the microbes in a kiss !"" Cold-hearted Science cries. Alas! where ignorance is bliss, What folly to be wise ! Reginald: Av, MY GOOD MAN, WILL You GIVE ME A LIGHT? “Way, CERT! COME ON UP."