Life — March 9, 1899 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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HAVE IT IN YOUR HOUSE, During bitzzard week people took good advice and didn't travel, but telephoned. For two days travel was impossibie for most, and daring the other four it was uninviting for all, Bat the telephone service worked untnterruptedly throughout, and did about double {ts usual duty for six days running, People who have telephones in thelr houses were very lucky. Message rates make the cost of the service at your house very moderate. The blizzard season 1s not yet over. Dix: L understand Windig, the attorney, ts seriously tl. Hix: Yes; I met his physictan this morning, and be says he ts lying at death's door. “That's Just like a lawyer."—Exchange. RAISED TO HEALTH, More Infants have been nourished with Gall Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk than by any other so-called infant foods combined. Thousands of mothers testify to ts merits. A YOUNG physiclan was once called In by a gentleman who had a very sick mother-tn-law. After looking {nto the case carefully the young M. D. called the gentleman aside and sald: “ Well, the only thing I can suggest {s that you send your mother-in-law to a warmer climate.” ‘The man disappeared and came back with an axe & moment later, and excialmed: Here, doctor, you kill her. 1 really haven't the heart.” Argonaut. HOTEL VENOOME, BOSTON. Commonwealth Avenue Electric Lights. New and most approved plumbing. Teacen (to new scholar): Now, Mary, I'll give you a sum. Supposing that your father owed the butcher $13.70, $11.13 to the baker, $27.08 to the coal merchant, $15.10 to the landlord— Many (confidentiy): We should move.—Boston Globe, THE HOTEL "“THORNOKE,” BOSTON, opp. the Public Gardens. Is most comfortable, and thoroughly equipped. European plan. A Poor old woman, who had been lavish where It would have been better to be only generous toward a neighbor, looked with disapproval at the scant amount of sugar which had been sent to her In payment for a more Hberal measure borrow and remarked “Doin! ez you'd be done by ts sometinies more satistyin® than bein’ did by; ‘cause them that do by you don’t always seem to sense thelr privileges."— Youth's Companion, No WINe has a purer bouquet than Cook's Impertal Extra Dry Champagne. It ts the pure jJutce of the grapes fermented. Pruivs: I know more than you think I do. Pain: That's easlly possible.— Yale Record. THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD. Your thoughts flow more freely if your pen slips over the paper with no apparent edforton your part; Ifthere Is nothing to catch or cause the Ink to spatter. Rapid thinkers need pens spe designed for rapld writing inorder that thelr hands may keep up with thetr thoughts, For these people steel pens are now made that slightly tarn up at the pont ‘They glide over the paper with an ease that < remarkable and offer no hindrance to thought, Ask your stationer to ahow you Esterbrook’s Flyer No. 631. “Wry do the roses fade slowly away?” she inquired, poetically Well,” replied the bald headed young man with wide ears,“ when you think tt over it's all for the best. It's more comfortable to have them fade slowly away than to go off all of a sudden like a torpedo.""— Washington Star. A SURE “ MICROBE" KILLER, Do yon lke microbes? They are to be found everywhere. Have you substituted portieres for doors In your apartments, which render them more cosy and homelike? The doctor will exclaim : Beware of microbes! Do you wish a remedy? It ts simple and delicous and conststs in saturating the air of your Fooms with the natural perfume of the Fleurs Sachets, the ex- quisite novelty of Uriza-Legrand, which Is the rage in the two hemispheres, Ir ts often unfair to Judge a frame by the picture it incloses.—Exchange. ABBOTTS oncinas ANGOSTURABITTERS A 25 DAYS SEA VOYAGE AROUND PORTO RICO The New York and Porto Rico S. S. Co.'s fast American Steamer ‘San Marcos" sails at 3 p.m. Friday, Marc Touching at all Portsof the Istand, remaining at each, one to two days, giving Passengers a splendid opportunity to ezplore our new and interesting colony under the most perfect conditions, Rates of passage $13) and upward,which Includes board and stateroom during the time the steamer remains at the vartous ports. Passengers desiring to remain on shore during the two weeks stay at the Island will be allowed $3.00 per day. For generai fnformation apply to MILLER, BULL & KNOWLTON, Agents... 130 Pearl Street, N.Y. 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GIBSON R, GIBSON’S new book for’g8, contain- ing eighty-four of his best cartoons and sketches, beau- tifully printed on heavy pa- per and handsomely bound, being the third book in the series of which Drawings by C. D. Gibson was the first &9 Pictures of People the second, It is confidently expected that this will be the most popular, as it is the most artistic and entertain- ing, of all of Mr. Gibson’s books. Large folio, 12 x 18 inches, bound in Japan vellum with white vellum back. Each copy enclosed in abox. Price, $5.00. Epition be Luxe, consist- ing of 250 first impressions, each copy numbered and signed by Mr. Gibson, together with artist’s proof. Price, $10.00. Handsomely printed catalogue containing one hundred and twenty examples, artists’ proofs, sent on receipt of ten cents, Lire Pusiisuinc Company, New York.