Life — May 4, 1899 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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AN actor who 1s thoroughly convinced of the vindictive: ness of women relates this uuecdote in support of his opiaton: “Thad a woman enemy once. She was leading woman tu the company when I was ‘ending man, On the stage we were sovers, Od the stage we didu't even speak when we met. 1 had a scene with her, in which J had to clasp her tn my arms while her bead sank oa my breast. 1 wore @ frock-coat and beautiful light satin scarf. And what did that woman do? She used to make up with grease-patnt, and when her head sank on my breast she used to rub ber cheek against my te, and—well, a light satin te with red and grease-paint ou ft isn'ta thing of beauty. [had to buy a new tle for every per- formance. I stood It five nights, and then another woman told me what to do, I filled my xcarf with pins, potnts out, and woe my lady rubbed her damask cheek agatust my breast that night she looked like a war-map."—aryunint. SLIZABETH Of Austria and her companion were riding one night through the outskirts of Pesth, when they heard the screams of a woman froma rickety hovel. Both leaped from their horses and rushed in, dading, in a villain- ously dirty room, a huge ruMan of a man dragging a woman about by the bair and kicking her. The Empress iatd her heavy hunting. whip about the feliow's face. and, surprised at the assault, he dropped his victim and guped. The til-used dame, however, sprang to her feet, and in shrill tones de- mandsd to know what “the huzzies meant by interfering with her husband.” The Empress burst into # peal of augn ter, and taking from her haoit a couple of goid ten guiden Eurress A Westens paper indulges tn a ‘ Joke" which we re- Print, and which 1s not without important significance. A hewly elected Aiderman, conversing with a friend tn a street car, remarked that he bad been elected by the votes of eight nattonailties. “What are they? asked his friend. “Germans, Irtsb, Polish, Engitsh, Italians, French and Greeks." “But that makes only seven,” said the friend. was the eighth nationatity 1” The Alderman stopped to think, and nan over his list again in vain, “Really,” be satd, “there was an eighth uationality. What could it have been. “ Perhaps,” suggested a gentleman who was sitting near, “there were some Americans.” “That's it! That's it!" exclaimed the Alderman, “1 couldn t think of them to save me !"—Youth's Companion. “What A West Sip Sunday school class in Chicago bad been studying the Old Testament. The youngsters were small tut bright, and were deeply Interested tn the subject. “Jimmy, * sald the teacher, turning to one of the star pupils, “ who was tt killed the Philistines?” “Samson,” said Jimmy, without hesitation. But Walter Smith's hand was raised in an indignant pro- test. “Twas not," he declared, without watting to be asked about It. “Sampson wasn’t there at all, It was Schiey."* Exchange. DeRING Kipling’s illness Henry James was one might Hiding home in acab from his ciuh in London. The news TUE MACMILLAN COMPANY: NEW YORX AND LONDON. Tit Phitippives and Round About. By Major G. 3. Young: hustand. $2.50, The Maternity of Harriott Wicken, By Mrs, Neary Dudeney. $1.50. Heart of Mn, By George Edward Woodberry. $1.10. VARPER AND BROTHERS: NEW TORK AND LONDON. Danish Fairy and Futk Tales, By J. Christian Bay, Mustrated. $1.50. Pur and Feather Tales. By Hamblen Sears. Ilastrated, $1.15, Raliads, Critical Reviews, Ere, By Wilitam Makepeace Thackeray. Mlustrated. $1.75. CHARLES SCAIBNER's SONS: NEW TORK. On the Bulge of the Empire, By Edgar Jepson and Cap- taln D. beames. $1.50, The Seottish Clans and Their Turtaus, $1.00. Crricatures of the Stage. Drawn by Sewell T. Collins, Jr. Chicago: The Stratford Press. James Russett Lovett and His Friends, By Edward ret Hale. Lastrated. Boston aud New York: Houghtoa, Mifttin and Company. $3.00, The Professor's Daughter: By Anna Farquhar, New York: Doubleday and McClure Company, $1.75. he handed the paper he had bought to the cabman. “ Kip- Jing’s all mght.” he said, The cabman took the paper, and leaned down with o Puzzled look on ts face, ‘1 don't seem to know the name 0° the ‘awse,” he said. — Exchange. pieces, she handed them to this modet benedict, exclaiming, ++ Beat her, my friend; beat her all she wants. She deserves Ut for being so loyal to you. hangee had Just come that the crisis was past aud the great writer on the road to recovery. 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