Life — July 30, 1896 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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LAMENT FROM THE CRADLE. Up from the cradle came a wail, At first a pensive coo; Into a weird, vociferous wail Of mournfulness it grew. His sorrow, in a vein prolix, He struggled to reveal, “My father’s talking politics, And mother rides a wheel. “They say I'm cross. I'm simply sad At being slighted so. { wish the baby-carriage fad Could somehow get a show. How can you blame one in my fix For setting up a squeal ? My father’s talking politics, And mother rides a wheel.” —Washington Evening Star. First Summer Girt.—Are you going to that old Christian Endeavor meeting this evening ? Seconp SumMMeR Gikt.—Yes, indeed! Haven't you heard the subject to be discussed ? “No; what is it?” “* How to Hold Our Young Men. York Press. “Your son, I believe, made some experiments while at college?” “Yes, he discovered what he calls his paradox. “What is the nature of it?” “He succeeded in demonstrating that debts are ex- ‘scientific UNDER THE SILVER REGIME. can you let me have some money this Wilkins, of Free-Silverton to “Grorce, morning ?” said Mrs. her husband. “*Yes, my dear. How much do you want?” “Oh, a dollar's worth of dollars will be enough.” —Harper's Bazar. To APPRECIATE thoroughly what it means to play to an empty house, one must travel to Brooklyn to attend a Wednesday matinee. At such a perfor- mance of ‘John-a-Dreams,” a school-girl sat in an orchestra chair and there was a young man in the front row of the balcony. The scene is the deck of a yacht, and as Henry Miller emerged from the cabin and gazed into the empty gulf before him, he spoke his first line: The sea is purple, have you too noticed it?” An instant later a voice came from the balcony : “Well, I don't know about the lady down- stairs, but I can see it all right.” —New York Evening Sun. “You are charged,” said the judge, “with riding your bicycle through the streets at a rate exceeding ten miles an hour.” “Ten miles?” said the man whose new wheel bad run away with him, ‘ten miles?’ I'll bet I was going three hundred."—/ndianapolis Journal. “Accert my hand, Augusta?” And the maiden looked at the hand, which was somewhat smaller than an averaged sized salt fish, hesitated a moment and then said sweetly : “Isn't there something off when you take so large MARPER AND BROTHERS, (SA SPIRIT. By Julian Hawthor Mrs. Gerald: By Maria Louise Pool. 1 by W. A. Rogei Life on the Mississippi HERBERT S. STONE AND COMPANY, Checkers. By Henry M. 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