Life — September 2, 1897 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE: Baffled. UPID stands all alone by the sands of the sea— For the summer has faded and fashion has flown— And a tear dims his eye For the hopes that are dead As he breathes forth a sigh That is almost a groan. His good bow is unstrung, all his arrows 7 are gone; Nota heart on a shaft can he show for his quest; Though he strove might and main For the quarry of love, He has only the pain Andree’s Aerial Escapade. W® shall be interested to hear from Herr Andree, the aero- naut. Perhaps he will turn up some- where in North America; perhaps he will be driven back to Europe; perhaps we shall never learn what ex- periences he had. His adventures cannot be predicted. They share the fascination which attaches to the marriage of an American heiress to an English duke, in that no conjecture as to how they will turn out is worth the ink it is written in. Of defeat in his breast. Ah! Sad in the sadness of wisdom begot, Of knowledge empiric the cup he must quaff; And stretched on the rack Of derision he hears The echo send back The fair seaside girl's laugh. Wood Levette Wilson, PEARLS OF ETIQUETTE. 193 Better Times for Toes. IFE notices with satisfaction that the shoe manufacturers begin once more to shape their wares with some regard for the anatomy of the human foot. The manufacturers find it expedient to change the fash- ion in shoes a little every year, so that last year’s stock may always be alittle out of style, and that weak minds may always be subject to the special allurements of ‘‘the latest thing out.” The progress of the pointed shoe having gone as far as it could, there was nothing to do but to start on the return trip. Toes, therefore, have more room than they did last year, and the chiropodists may notice some abatement of thcir business. Considerate. ILL you take my seat, madame? ” said the polite young man to the lady who entered a crowded car. © ‘Do not rise, sir,” she protested. ‘But you might feel embarrassed, sitting on my lap before all these persons.” “ce (7 1S THE CORRECT THING TO TAKE AS LITTLE LUGGAGE AS YOU CONVENIENTLY CAN WHEN VISITING, AND AVOID TAKING PET ANIMALS UNLESS ASKED TO DO SO, comicbooks.com