Life — February 10, 1898 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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ABBREVIATION, A little Quakeress, so quaint, So modest, and so sweet, She looked a veritable st. While walking down the st —Indianapotis Journal. Sur was young and pretty, and alone. Her bicycle costume was neat, trim, and becoming, and mounted upon a wheel she floated along over the smooth paths and roads, the cynosure of many admiring masculine eyes and perhaps the envy of many femi- nine. She was enjoying the pleasures of an after- noon spin on Belle Isle. The exercise had tinted her cheeks with a pink glow of the kind that never saw the inside of a drug store, and that always will baile the art of the chemist, and her eyes were glistening with the exhilaration of health. She was riding up Central Avenue and had reached @ point about midway between the Casino and the Zoo, when she met with an annoyance that ladies riding alone are frequently subjected to, but whic this young woman disposed of in a most refreshing and novel manner. The annoyance manifested itself in the form of a dudish young man of the masher species. He rode a bicycle, wore golf hose, a pink shirt, had his hair parted accurately in the middl and was possessed of assurance largely in excess of his stock of common sen: * Beg pardon," said he, riding alongside, and lift- ing bis cap with a smile that was intended to be perfectly irresistible, “but haven't we met before She answered by throwing him a look that would have withered anything less fresh, and moved over HIN \| Hil to the further side of the avenue. Nothing abashed, PRL he followed suit, and with another bow and smile aa that was as Chesterfieldian as a mounted bicycle will permit, said : “hope Iam not intruding, but—" “WHAT THE DEUCE DO YOU SUPPOSE THAT FELLOW DOES OVER THERE?” You are intruding, sir. Ido not know you and “OH, THAT'S GRINDER, THE POET, HE TURNS OUT AUTUMN PoETRY.” do not wish to talk to you.” “THE AUTUMN ATTIC PuET, EH?" “Well, if you don't know me, let us get ac- quainted. You know——"* Slackening her speed, she had suddenly dis- mounted, and, leaning over her wheel, began to carefully examine one of the pedals, He was off his machine in an instant. Allow me to assist you,” said he. She said nothing, but releasing her wheel to him took histo bold, while he went down on his knees to The Violet ts Ee ; * the offending pedal. He was no sooner on his mar- the aristocratic tower : any rows, with his face to the ground, than she deft glar likes eee AB extracted a hairpin from her Fedora, and quickly Seiers| to look into z aeely inserted the point into the rear tire of his wheel ard Reoront j By the time he had discovered there was absolutely the muzzle of a Gu s nothing wrong with the pedal and that it was SMITH & WESSON vorking as smoothly as mechanical skill and bicyc! aristocratic pertume could make it, the hairpin was resting inoffen- for the breath Revolver. Keep one in your house. | sively in its proper place. As she whirled merrily out of the avenue a would- THE SEARLE & HERETH CO Descriptive Catalogue, be masher stood by his bicycle with a tire as flat as nore Stacey, Cmcaco SMITH & WESSON the proverbial pancake. What his emotions were Man ax she faded from view among the trees will never 10 Stockbridge St., Springfield, Mass, | be known, but it was with crestfallen countenance arer OOS | thithe slowly wheeled his machine over to the bi- cycle tent for repairs.—Detroit Tribune. WOoOODBURY’S Facial Soap, Facial Cream, Facial Powder «° Dental Cream THE GRANDEST TOILET COMBINATION KNOWN FOR THE SKIN, SCALP, COMPLEXION AND TEETH. Manufactured by Dermatologist JOHN H. WOODBURY, who is the acknowledged authority on all diseases of the Skin and Scalp, having had over 26 years’ experience curing Facial Blemishes. For 20 cents we will mail you a sample of each (sufficient for three weeks’ use) of Woodbury’s Facial Soap, Facial Cream, Facial Powder, and Dental Cream and our 132-page illustrated book on Dermatology, telling how Facial Irregularities are corrected. The regular size of Woodbury’s Facial Soap, Facial Cream, Facial Powder, and Dental Cream are sold everywhere at 25 cents. Woodbury’s Hair Tonic, 9 ets. t27~ For fifteen wrappers of either one or assorted of the regular size of Woodbury’s Facial Soap, Facial Cream, Facial Powder or Dental Cream, we will send you a Diamond Stick Pin (suitable for lady or gent), or a gold (lady's or gent's) Watch Chain. “For five wrappers of any one or assorted of Woodbury’s preparations and date of birth, we will send you your birth-stone by return mail. JOHN H. WOODBURY, Dermatological Institute. Offices for the Cure of Skin and Nervous Diseases and the Removal of Facial Blemishes: Hew York, (27 W. 42d Street, Boston, Il Winter Street, Philadelphia, 1306 Walnut Street. Chicago, 163 State Street, ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO 127 WEST 42D STREET, NEW YORK. comicbooks.com