Life — January 12, 1899 — page 14: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“BACK FROM THE KLONDIKE, EU MEARD TOU CLEANED Ur A Nice TEN THOUSAND.” BUT 1 BLEW IT IN FOR A saNDWicHt A Board-Bill Da. LODGING-HOUSE keeper in Ga. Once boarded Lucrotia Ba. But she skipped to Ky. With a man she called dy. And the houso was minus a la, “Education by Play.” OME boys and girls there are in this over- instructed world to whom the annual visit of Santa Claus has not brought unvar- nished joy, The ruthless determing tion of parents and teachers to im- prove the youthful mind, at all times and at any cost, has inspired certain enterprising manufacturers to invent whole series of games, by means of which little, trustful children can be deceived into educating themselves under a shallow pretense of amusement. Occasionally these fraudulent pastimes bear some feeble resemblance to D real play, so that a very young child, or one of inferior intel- ligence, is success- fully cheated by such IN COMMEMORATION OF A WAR FOR HUMANITY. unworthy devices.