Life — May 27, 1897 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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A QUESTION OF TIME. years ago he wrote a book A most pr That is to say, the volume took With public and with press. unced success ; “No better book was ever writ!” The critics loudly cried; For months the people swore by it, And then—it quietly died. At this same time another man Another book did write, But no one thought its leaves to scan— It was a failure, quite. For years, unknown, forgot, it lay, Until by chance ‘twas read; That little book is sought to-day— It lives! It is not dead ! The first man, since his book came out, Has written forty more; Each one a little worse, no doubt, Than that which went before, PEARLS OF ETIQUETTE. YOU ONLY SHOW YOURSELF AT A DISAPVANTAGF, AN! ) PMMARRASS YOUR HOSTESS, IF YOU OFES THE DRAWING-ROOM POOR AND WALK IN UNANNOUNCED, The second author's work is done. Strange inconsistency ! Of books he'll write no other one: “I've no more time,” says he. QUALIFIED. EWSPAPER MANAGER: But you haven't had any experi- ence as a war correspondent. APPLICA Oh, yes. I reported the proceedings of the New York Police Board for several months, EN often take a nap on the elevated, women rarely do; one careful observer notes that he has never seen but one woman sleep- ing there. But the number of women who pick up to read a newspaper left behind by some departing pas- senger is increasing; it is not a com- mon sight to see women do this, but it is not now a remarkable sight. In this respect the new woman is getting to be something like the old man, OBSCURITY. RIVVET: I should think that Zola would become very much discouraged over the successive fail- ures of his endeavor to become a member of the Academy of France. Dicer: On the contrary, I think he would be sorry to get in. “Why?” “‘Think of how soon he might be forgotten!" HE International Postal Con- gress, now sitting in Washing- ton, will please not neglect to devise an international postage stamp which, enclosed in a letter to any country in the postal union, will pre- pay postage on the reply.