Life — March 2, 1899 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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

“CLAR TER GOODNESS, EF I DIDN'T KNOW DEY WAS A CIIICKEN COOP OBER YONDER, "EN DAT BAO EMPTY, [ COULDN'T TELL EP DAT PATERSON MAN WAS GWINE ER COMIN’ !” L= is a wholesome season which permits not only good Episcopalians and Catholics, but Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, and other dissenters as well, to refrain during forty days of each year from doing a great many things that they don't want to do. Apropos of the sea- son of abstinence, it has developed that the religious people of Baltimore are in a state of perplex- ity to whether terrapin comes with- in the prohibition of flesh dict during Lent. A committee of ben cireurs has sent a statement of their predicament to Rome for final action. It is also stated that the entire United States army, from General Miles down, has decided to abstain from embalmed beef during the Lenten season, 475 SOME MODERN DEVELOPMENTS, UMI8 MAN LIVES IN UARLEM, AND TRAVELS UP AND DOWN TOWN BY BANGING ON 4 sTRaP. THIS MAN LIVES AT THE TOP OF AN RIGHT - STORY APARTMENT HOUSE WHERE THERE 18 NO ELEVATOR, comicbooks.com