Life — March 31, 1898 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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AT THE DEPARTMENT STORE “YOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, S11, PROM THE PNEUMATIC TOE! To the Editor of Life: s® -Lam pleased to see that one of the many contestants was successful in Contest Number Three, and that the prize of two hundred dollars is awarded to a to sce that your decision is a correct one,as “the sentence selected for which the picture was made" is not a sentence after all, but simply a part of a sentence, the last word of which being punctuated with a comma A sentence as L understand it is “a period; a number of words forming a complete stat t. or utterance of thought, and followed by a full stop.” Lhave two editions of Longfellow before me, one by Houghton, MiMlin & Co., recent and complete, and the other by James R. Osgood & Co., com: plete edition of 1871, and I fled th following line punctuated as O, would I were a soldie The punctuation is ex: eilition which Ihave t You can easily understand why so many of the contestants were misled in following the directions which were laid down as a guidance in thecontest. Yours, very respectfully, J.W, Crexsnaw, Pua:nix, Arizona, March 11, 18%. not a scholar, ctly the same in each fore me. Our correspondent arrives at his con- clusion too hastily. The Century Dic- tionary defines a sentence as follows: In gram,, a form of words having grammati- cal completeness; a number of words const tuting a whole, as the expression of a state ment, inquiry or command; a combination of subject and predicate. *LIFE: A Curious Shop. ‘VE seen the strangest, weirdest shi That shoppers ever knew, Where one is ne'er allowed to stop, And must yo flying through, One never secs a bargain sale In this strang And disappointment O'er every pallid face > shopping place, ists her veil Here one buys laughter; there, hot tea And such a tot of care! ‘The basement’s stocked with) years and years, Yet has not one to spare! ardent love counter where Here is som There is th One finds unlimited supply of gera vty, 1 despair, Ambition leads t Down to ty And says, ¢1'm sorry, friends, for you, motley crew counter fame, “Twas all gone ere you \ J as, “YY CAME TOO LATE BUT THE WARNING 1b clerk is smooth, and smug, and bland And when you think you've got s you've paid for in your hand, You're fooled as like as not! Indeed, this is the queerest store, For all the hu Who enter through the swit Can never more turn So on they march through 4 Through passages the But, oh! it takes a dre To reach the long-sot iste and aisle, Who run the shop? Its n On looking up you'll see this sign: “The Messrs, Fate & Co. "! Harold Mac All may divine pagers, for lo! One Week from the Diary of a Baby. ONDAY—I cannot say that Tam glad Tam here. At this early stage it is bad enough to be with one’s parents, but when a trained nurse is added, the situ- ation is almost unbearable. One of the first things this individual did was to stretch around my helpless form a coarse woolen health band. It was new, of course, and scratched like the mischief. Then s began to build me up with woolen clothes, until I became literally all wool and a yard wide. Of course I cried, and excited the sympathy of my mother, but the nurse laughed and told she new at the business, and that it was just what I Then she pur me over with a nkets, put an her was needed to make me grow, me in a basket, covered couple of heavy California bl ciderdown quilt on top, and smothered my head so that [couldn't breathe. If 1 live through this it will be a wonder. Tuesday—This morning I was so thor usted that, in spite of the frightful heat, I managed to doze. Not for long, however, for the doctor ¢ in and I had to be examined. The temperature was then over cighty, but they turned on a double head of steam, built a fire in the grate and lighted all the gas-jets before the nurse began to unwind me. They put me on the be 1 spread a blanket awning over m to ward off any chance zephyrs. and the the doctor put a telephone arrangement to one car and the other end to my back, and listened bard. I hope Iam all right