Life — July 29, 1897 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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A Ballad of the Fleet—-450 B.C. When we loosed from blue Pirxus, Under the Violet Crown, The sun hung over the masthead Like Pallas above the town; The sun hung over the masthead And the land lay on the lea, Where the gray eyes of Glaucopis Were the eyes that followed me. We sailed away to the southland, Where the maids are born to kiss; We saw the daughters of Pharaoh When we lay at Naucratis; And their eyes shone like Selene’s, But all that they said to me Was: ‘The gray eyes of Glaucopis Are the eyes that shine for thee.” We coasted the Great King’s country, We looked on the Asian girls, We saw the flash of their white arms, The toss of their coal-black curls; But out of their songs and dances The message that came to me Was: ** The gray eyes of Glaucopis Are the eyes that watch for thee.” Sometimes when the night wind whimpers And whistles among the spars, And the sullen raindrop splastes, And a wet mist dims the stars, At sight of their tearful beauty I think on a harbor quay, Where the gray eyes of Glaucopis Are the eyes that weep for me. FENPRS TDL As oft inthe summer starshine We loiter among the isles, We can see the town lights twinkle And beckon across the miles; But behind them and beyond them A city I seem to see, Where the gray eyes of Glaucopis Are the eyes that beckon me. —Pall Mall Gazette, A WOMAN who was traveling alone not long ago wandered one evening into a hotel parlor, A pretty young girl at once rushed towards her and breathlessly asked what time it was. Somewhat astonished, the woman glanced at the big mantel clock and repeated tne hour. “Oh, thank you,” said the stranger, but without any signs of going away. ‘I suppose you think it queer my asking that,’ she burst out a moment later, * but to tell the truth I didn't want to know the time at all; I just had to speak to somebody. You see, I'm on my wedding trip, and for a whole week I haven't spoken toasoul but my husband. Why, I've hardly heard the sound of any one’s voice but his. It was really a question of my speaking to some one or going wild.” —Kansas City Star. One of the many private secretaries at the national capital is still new to his honors. One day a news- paper woman, full of business, burst intothe office of this secretary's chief, The great man wasout. **Can you tell me when he will be in?" she asked. ‘‘ Really,” drawled the clerk, ‘I haven't an idea.” ** Well," said the newspaper woman, as she turned to go, ‘tI must say you look it."— Washington Post, ” says.a business maz, young man registered at the hotel and proceeds, make things lively. The first night he played py with the landlord and cleaned him out ; the next¢, he came home drunk and whipped the cabman; third night he went up and down the halls singisy the top of his voice and daring the chambermaig, come out andembrace him. In the morning they for the key of his room and gave him his bill. He loc it over, and then said, with surprised pathos, *Dq you make any discount to ministers ?’"—/ardwan Tue following epitaph is inscribed on the tomb: North Carolina moonshiner: ‘Killed by the Gor ment for making whiskey out of corn grown from furnished by a Congressman.” “Pa, what is a peri?” **A peri is a woman who meets her tired hastg at the door with a glass of iced lemonade, and ther down by him and fans him."—Chicago Record, “ARE you aware,” said the garrulous b “that oxtail soup was the invention of the Fr refugees, who used to beg the oxtails, because had no money to buy soup bones?” ‘In other wa said the Cheerful Idiot, ‘‘they were reduced tothe extremity." —/ndianapolis Journal, “On, mamma,” the beautiful girl exclaimed, adores me so, and he is so noble and handsome, aré “Yes, my child.” ‘And he brings such lovel; ences from his last wife.” Mother and daughter mis their tears of joy. 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