Life — July 4, 1895 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE: OUR FRESH AIR FUND. Every three dollars sends a child to Live's Farm for a two week's outing. Previously acknowledged. $576 23 Josephine Coster a 15 09 Mrs, Blllsssescesessscessecses 1 00 My Provosrstars 10 © BRFORE. + Right of Way” Pedro.........5. 500 CR. Frederick M, Smith sagas a = —— Jno, H. Matthews... Edw. L. Coster........ Corralled by Mr. John Hyslop on board the yacht “Oriva” ... se 9 E. W.G., Worcester, Mass. 6 00 Fisherman's Luck... 5 0 $712 23 HER $ SHOES. HE bought them in the town one day. My lady fair, my lady gay. Those dollar shoes ; She showed them to us all with pride, The stuff was coarse, the last too wide, The place uneven where they tied, Those dollar shoes. But when she put them on her feet They looked so trim and fine and neat, Those dollar shoes, That Cinderella, coquette fair, Might have been glad to change her pair Of glass ones for a chance to wear Those dollar shoes. So with all things my queen doth touch, They gain in grace and beauty much, And coarseness lose ; That we who know her as earth’s leaven Are willing, though with steps uneven, DENCE. To follow up the path to Heaven “Mary, ver wox't Those dollar shoes. SAY NOTHIN’ IF [TELL ee VRE SOMETHINE:? OUNG WIDOW: I've WELL, THEN, WHEN been thinking of poor JIMMY KISS HER IT Jack so much lately. SOUNDED ZACKLY LI ace scree “We've had such warm weather, MY VACATION. ITH what joy I learned that the next two weeks belonged to me I leave to the sympathy of those fellow-laborers who are also tied to a desk fifty weeks out of the year to apprehend. I determined to go in search of adventures. No ordinary resorts, mountain or seaside, would do. No, the strange and unusual must be found. Queer people should entertain me, odd customs add zest to my life. Routine had so long enchained me, that perfect freedom must be mine. I would go out when I chose, come in when I chose ; think as I pleased, speak as I pleased. Unrestrained, uncontrolled Liberty! That is what I sought. The first step was to procure a complete railroad guide. Then I sat down to study it. Not that my intention was to remain near a railroad. No, indeed, the §=————____— railroad carries civilization with it—if the officials knew this, how they would rave at not being able to charge freightage !—but_ 1 meant it to carry me into a wild region, and then to turn The Speaker: AND NOW LOOK AT THE HORRIBLE EXAMPLE UPON THE PLATFORM. A Voice: WHICH ONE 18 THE EXAMPLE? my back contemptuously upon it, and plunge deeper and deeper into the wilderness until I reached the spot I sought, where even conventions were unknown. I studied the guide. | sat up late at night with the guide open before me. I rose early in the morning and leafed it over. Day and night, night and day I pored over it. Different friends interrupted me. One wanted mé to go to the sea- shore with him, another pressed me to accompany him to the mountains, others knew the most charming spots to visit in the country, still others begged me to go with them on short excur- sions, to pic-nics, to the summer gardens, but to all I turned a deaf ear. My great plan was not to be frustrated thus.