Life — July 9, 1896 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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T SEISSOR) AVT Wl THE AGE OF PERFECTION. O worshipers of womanhood, No more old shibboleths repeat (Youthful hyperboles and crude!) Their fulsome praise is now effete : But with a measured rapture greet, Nor indiscriminately strive To prove all women young and sweet— The Perfect Age is Thirty-five. Time was you praised the maid's snood, The timid eye, the lingering feet, In modest bashfulness that stood, Where rivulet and river meet. Now childish grace is obsolet Our modern appetite would thrive On riper grain, maturer wheat— The Perfect Age is Thirty-five. Tall Helen wandering in the wood, And gentle Hermia small and neat, Young Rosalind in costume rude, Girl Juliet in your winding sheet, You all, alas! are incomplete. Then pray that time may means contrive, Your changeless youthfulness to cheat— The Perfect Age 1s Thirty-five. Then woman, sober and discreet, (So men may choose you when they wive) The moment srize—for time is fleet— The Perfect Age is Thirty-five. —The St. James's Gazette. A LUTTLe girl in Manchester recently drank a pint of paraffin oil. The doctor thought she would die until one of her relatives hit on a happy expedient. They slipped a yard of candlewick down ito the oil, lit the upper end and during the evening she lighted the room nicely and then went to bed all right.— Weekly Telegraph. CHARLES FREDERICK ROBINSON HAYWARD, a Den- ver editor, wrote learnedly of the drama and could keenly analyze every phase of the actor's art. But his shortest criticism will probably outlive any other written by him. It was as follows: “George C. Miln, the preacher-actor, played ‘Hamlet’ at the Academy of Music last night. He played it till twelve o'clock.” The only other criticism that seemed to class with this eman- ated from Leadville, where a performance of “ Richard III.” by a barn-storming troupe was chronicled under the glaring head-line of * Many Lives Lost.”—Argonaut. A BROOKLYN LULLABY. Never mind the goblins, dear, they're only make be- lieve; The bogy man is something just invented to deceive; But it is well to have it very widely understood That the trolley cars will catch you if you are not very good. So don't play tag or ring-a-round-a-rosy in the street + Keep close inside the nursery, ‘tis your only safe retreat; Give up your romping merriment, as little children should, For the trolley car will catch you if you are not very g00d —Philadelphia Press, HARPER AND BROTHERS, NEW YORK, HE SILK OF THE KINE, By L. McManus, Tales of Fantasy and Fact, By Brander Matthen| The Crimson Sign. By S. R. Keightley The Prince and the Pauper. By Mark Twain. 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