Life — July 2, 1896 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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LIFE: THE UNDERGRADUATE AND THE THE THING TO BE CONSIDERED. AVERAGE: SIAL. 4 I F Miss Gay devoted as much time to mental culture as she does to dress, she would be a very learned woman.” “Yes, but she wouldn’t have the satisfaction of making other women green with envy.” A BOTTLED DELUSION. x, HE champagne product of 189 will not, it is said, rank itself among the promi- nent good years, for, although champagne is an artificial wine, there is a vw strongly marked difference between good and poor years, though, unfortu- \_ nately, in this country, where distinctions as to years are nct drawn, the market is supplied by the vintages only of the poor years, for it would be obviously absurd to send to the United States wine that was the vintage of good years, wine which would command an exceptional price in England, France and Ger- many, when in the United States no higher price could be obtained for it than would be given for wine of the same producer which was a result of what he considered one of his worst Vvintages.—Boston Herald. And the United States are right. Not, however, because the Amer- ican consumer is discriminating, but because, in our humble opinion; the best champagne isa pretentious F pusillanimous drink. The eager- Sfia Nery ‘sloppy “kind, ness with which the moneyed Amer- We need hardly say that ican pays three dollars a bottle this family does ‘not.get for carbonated turnip juice has along: together, any" better always filled us with a moderate than Miss Wilkins's. ¥ " : Pp ‘A melancholy. And if the European Qe HEN you come to Kentucky you nat- urally expect to see the HE MEETS HER AND.FINDS SHE is willing to pay a premium on certain vintages of patent family life fairly iridescent with affection. It is in the region where one family is accustomed to annihilate, root and branch, any other family that casts the slightest aspersion on its honor. Mr. Allen, however, shows that there is an occasional fly in the amber—even in Kentucky. The father inthis case is a particularly cruel, but, asevents proved, a shrewd and far-sighted prophet as to the character of the young man who was courting his daughter. The story is written with that poetic dignity that is always the charm of Mr. Allen's style. As for the kind of love- making portrayed —it hardly needy the prelude.to justify it. Moreover we doubt whether it can be given a mora/ defence. It is either a good subject for an artistic story, or it is not. The only jystification must be the stor, eel. Drock, THE CRVFIC 3 APOLOGY. “ec I styled the ‘ Authors’ Reading,” And those that had a seat, gagement) For “reason why” are pleading. © PAPA (F ine it again): “Sud- nd instand, at her residence, ‘Rachel, der eldest daughter "—und's0 on. C.F. matter mit dot 96) 9 Well, that’s a treat, I deem, To which, on no condition, Sane men would ever dream Of charging for admission. denly, on de i ‘ SS CORRECT STATEMENT. LITERARY treat mM MMA: I don’t like dot y:lfertisement) you have brepared\ o announce Rachel's en- medicine, hair restorers, champagne and similar bev- erages, why so much the bet- ter for the manufacturers. But we incline to the belief thatinthe above-named drink every'dollar saved is a dollar gained. 18 MORE