Life — January 28, 1897 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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THAT IS THE TIME OF LOVE; AND THE RIVULET GARGLES. this that the American actor seems to LIKELY. “Now that the campaign 1s over, avoid. He wishes the exploitation of W! : Iwonder why the doctor what do you think of the the manager to take the place of his is so anxious to perform the Sound Money Democratic movement own efforts, and it is by this he makes operation on the baby ? as a whole? ; himself the manager's slave. Let him Huspanp: Probably because he has “Asa hole for Bryan, I think it take a lesson from Mr. Hare, and al- not performed that operation before. Was an unqualified success,” though he may think himself a star, —_ dare to make good an inferior part like | i is easy enough to admire a man that of Fecles in ‘* Caste.” for the enemies he has made if Metcalfe. they happen to be your cnemies also. .THE SUBMERGED NOBILITY. “Unclaimed British Estate" industry q profitable and successful because} the XS legal proletariat engaged in the busin <), have always believed in the profound wis ‘ dom of the famous soup recipe, ‘First catch your heir.” It is one of those in- fant American industries which needs no protection, and it is one that will continue to flourish as long as our public schools refrain from treating their pupils with hypodermic in- jections of gray matter. The American is not hampered with horse sense; his gray matter never goes deeper than his coat. The ambition to possess large estates and sonorous titles is common to all humanity; even the humble missionary will relinquish this desire only when he is secluded in the stomach of the heathen or reclining on Abraham's bosom. Designing persons of Jingo instincts have endeavored to malign the English people by accusing them of annexing everything in sight, indifferent to the title of the plunder. It is to our honor that we believe that there are in England vast accumulations of wealth, great estates and numberless titles which the modest Briton resolutely refuses to claim, for your true English- man scorns titles and despises wealth. It is only when we thoroughly appreciate the self-sacrificing character and high-minded disinterested- ness of the Englishman, that we begin to understand why so many titled Britons abandoned wealth and position to ‘live in poverty and ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. comicbooks.com