Life — September 23, 1897 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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254 me to the pawnshop, Mistress Clive; and as for Mr. Garrick, I can fancy him striding in stately fashion along the Rialto with none so poor to do him rev- erence.” “Or to proffer me a needed tipple!" added Mr. Garrick, with his homely bluntness. ‘* Even so, gadsfaith! And you, Mistress Nell, without your king, would continue to sell Levant orangesin Lewkinor Street, and the world be none the wiser for your charms, ch ?” “Perhaps,” replied the shade of Nell Gwyn, with a perky toss of her head, “perhaps, Davy, or what's worse, I would be singing in the chorus at six dollars the week, and trying to support that ungracious mother o' mine, And now I think on't, I begin to realize, gad- zooks, what a blessing it isto be dead these hundred years !" “T' faith, then,” put in Peg Woffing- ton, ‘the five of us have had a narrow escape from being born too late. Itis a fine thing, my dears, to live at the right time and to die at the right time. Is't not so?” And the sentiment was endorsed by acclamation. Arthur Grissom. HE rich are miserable because they have discovered that money cannot buy happiness, and the poor are wretched because they have not enough money to make the experiment, LIFE: _ Si ANKAws, Language. 7; HIS conversation was overheard in a railway car: “Usen't you to work for the B, & 0?" “Yes, I used; usen’t you?” “Yes, | used. I thought you used!" Right here in Amcrica we have dialects waiting to be coined into money by story-writers with a gift for business. Another Landmark ~~ Threatened. T is rumored that the Phila- delphia Assemblies, which date from 1740, are to be abandoned. They are too big, it seems, and the sub- scribers think them deficient in exclu- siveness. Eleven hundred names are said to be on the subscription list, and it would appear that there are not that many people in Philadelphia whose social qualifications are satisfactory to one another. It may be necessary that the Assemblies should perish, but Lire hates to hear of changes in Philadel- phia. We ought to have at least one conservative, old-fogy city, if only to mark the changes in the others. NOT THAT KIND. ~~ TT PEIRCE - Se Angel-of-Peace : THAT'S THE THIRD GOOD THING I'VE DONE THIS WEEK! “SAY, BILL, DIDN'T YOU SAY THAT MATCHES WERE IN HEAVEN 2”? WHY, YES.”” “WELL, YER CAN'T FOOL ME ON THE SMELL OF THAT ONE.”