Life — February 23, 1899 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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POINTS ABOUT TELEPHONE SERVICE. Telephone subscribers in New York have the use of the best equipped telephone system in the world. Every station has a long dist ephor and is connected to the Central Office by a direct metallic circuit under ground line, The rates vary with Uhe amount of use, In private residences and stables the use of the service Is not great, and consequently the cost is small, but the con- venience is immeasurable. The telephone service puts the whole orgunization of a great city at your fingers’ ends, day and night. Yeast: Lunderstand that seats In the New York Stock Exchange aren { thirty-three thonsund dollars, Chpisonmeak: Yess 1 they are almost as hard to get a street car— Yonkers Statesman. BEST BECAUSE NATURAL, The market Is flooded with so-called baby foods. Expert ence detonstretes that sclentifically prepared cow's milk ts the best when the natura! supply fills. Gail Borden Eagle Bran ¢ wed Mik ts the best infant food. ~ Liave ined several army officers,” said the hostess, “and Lam anxious that the occasion shall be something »prtate. I don't want anything common- lock tea, or & pink tea, or a violet tea.” ted Mixx Cayenne, after deliberation, “why not make Ita beef tear "— Washington Star. HOTEL VENDOME, BOSTON. All the attractions of Hotel life, with the comforts and privacy of hoi Berener: | have always been famous for my legs and loins, Crstomen: Fancy now; well, everyone to her taste, THE HOTEL “THORNDIKE.” BOSTON, opp. the Public Gar Ladies traveling alone will find Its accommodations be id comfortable. European plan, Apote: The prestimption of some men! That Mr. Cason trled to kiss me last evening. Eriet: How could he? Addie sites sweetly, but tn her heart she wonders if that ugly thing meant anything.—foston Pru uscript. OVER FIFTY MILL ON DOLLARS. ‘The finauclal report of the Equitable Life Assurance So- clety, published to-day, state other interesting tems that the surpttts of the Society Is greater than the surplus of any other life Insurance company in the United States or Surplus meastres both the strength and the divi- ing power of any faancia nization, and the ders of the Equitable cannot but be interested and gratified with the Society's report of the transtctions of the past year, The assets now amount to 255,369,296, and the surplus $57,310,450, The outstanding assurance now exceeds hine hundred and elghty-seven milton dollars, and of dis bursements during the year 1898 more than twenty-four mil- lions was to policy-holders. The new assurance written during the year amounted to over one tundred and sixty- eight million dollars over and above thirty millions declined by the examiners of the company So LONG as Ireland was silent under her wrongs, England wus deaf to her erles.—/rish Newspaper. 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During the three years’ service in the army, which is | vow vou recruited from the whole of the people without | DOUBLEDAY & McCLURE CO. distinction, the third year's soldiers presented meee Ne the most favorable conditions of health and ———— etficiency, not ouly in the active service, but ‘Ol the also as forming the best physica other people, abont . eparati nivil life. enterprise daintiest and most © poem preparation for civil life, enterprise Pit luaaat pares pave veen lesen (aa cess a result not attainable, or at least never ‘lume of attractive appearance. yet produced by any other system of educati 1 Pag MEL ee iniss cadens aril Hy some of ost skillful of our militarily trained persoo is endowed with a tion of neatness, delicate trony and playful physical and mental equipment far superior to humor characteristic of the brightest litte that of the “State school cripple,” whose paper of its kind. ‘ brain is battered by indigested book ‘learning, Scab tading Sa sO tubieee f y Bt ‘a es | club Linding ; $4.50 full leather. and whose nerves are neutralized by the un: | healthy atmosphere of the recitation-rcom and Address... « the senseless system of an education which for- :. ene gets the old rule that we ought to * learn for Life Publishing Company life, not oe the school.” In the annual mana@uvres of German reserve and national guard forces Dr. Jaeger discovers a national 19 and 21 West 31st St. health factor that no sanitary regulations, pub. NEW YORK CITY lic or private, are able to produce. General | military training alone supplies a nation with | the necessary fiving capital for future growth, —Baltimore Sun, Jan. 31, 1899. VERSES