Life — July 7, 1898 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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to teach the most industrious author the world bas ever known to write with his feet. Mr. Hopkinson Smith may join the learn the art at the same time, ring his annual visits to Venico he need not give up writing to paint. Tho world will be a gainer if theso reports are trife, since we do not seem to be able to | got enough of the work of either of theso gentlemen. . . . ROFESSOR NANSEN and his family have fitted up an ico- berg a hundred miles from Greenland, and will devote the whole summer season to an inti- mate study of the habits of the Polar bear. It is believed that Mr. Nansen will be much benefited by this ex- perience, and may be expected hereafter toadhere more closcly to his models than he bas in the past. . . . HE statement that Rudyard Kip- ling will return to Brattleboro, Vermont, ts untrue. Mr. Kipling feels that he has withdrawn too much already from congenial society for the past five years, and has de- cided to reform in this respect. He will, therefore, put in July, August and September with the Boers in the Trans- vaal, after leaving the Somali in June, E H Sue: Very well; but who will you get engaged to? A Pertinent Query. : Let’s get engaged. Joseph Choate. ‘HIS gentleman has been struggling all of his life to make a success, and it was only when ho wasn't reached the culmination of his career. elected to be United States Senator that he He is a law- yer both by profession and inheritance, and tho len; eth and breadth of his reputation is measured not 80 much by square yards as by the number of pro minent citizens he has made uncomfortable, He basa faculty of asking purely personal questions, which, always a source of embarrassment to great wealth, aro doubly 80 when the proceedings aro watched and rudely commented on by a Judge. Mr. has ing A Warning. HE way to happiness is through these oyes! The path to misery beside it lies; The road to dreamland through this crimson gute! Whose toll in kisses paid leads oft to hate. There will be neither light nor voice to guide— Bowaro thy steps whore destinies divido; Peril and Paradise both beckon Thee, And no man’s goal another may decree! UR heaviest burden is our friend’s good Inck. Choate also makes after-dinner speeches, and in this fleld the unique distinction of know- when others have had enough. This is doubtless due to the possession of a sense of bamor discriminative enough to make him aware of when he is not funny, Altogether, Mr. Choate is a desirable and entertaining person to meet when one hus a clear conscience, and doesn't happen to be on the wrong side of the fence. Invisible. LARA: Has Dora such a good com- plexion? Mavo: I've never seen it. REAT is mind; yet no mental effort is an adequate substitute for a pair of suspenders, HE: What makes you think you understand women so well? He: I've been engaged to four differ- ent girls, and never failed to get back the ring.