Life — May 11, 1899 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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always hold that a dinner {s incomplete without a salad.” “ What is there?” “Celery — tomato — lettuce — romaine— escarole cress —lobster—chickon — arti- choke. How would anico, cold artichoke—” “Oh, what a funny little basket the waiter has—what is it, Mr. Willioboy ?” “Burgundy —you'll havo just a glass, won't you?” “Oh, Mr, Willioboy! I can't drink red winos; they are 60 dreadfully strong.” “Oh, woll, then some sauterno—or hock “Oh, anything that is sweet! I love to see it bubble in those long-stemmed glasses ; don't you?” Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego: YOUR MAJFSTY, AS TRUE LOVERS OP SPORT, WE THANK YOU YOR ENTERING US IN 70-DAY’S FINAL EAT, “Some champagne, perhaps?” “If you like It, of course.” “Very well (teriting); and then—somo— Suppose we try some cream—” “Lovely! With strawberries—" * And little cakes —" “ Perfect!" “And coffee?” “Delightful! Do you know, Mr. Willlo- boy, you can ordor dinner bettor than any man I've over met.” Kate Masterson. ERE is satisfaction in the news that the Administration bas taken official notice of the reports conveyed by soldiers’ letters of the shooting of Fili- pino prisoners by American troops. The great, masterful, fighting virtucs have not been sufficiently developed in us yet to qualify us to hear with equanimity that American troops shoot prisouvers, The story sounds like a lic. Certainly it is insufficiently authenticated. If it isa lie, it ought to be nailed. If it is not a lice—but it must be. The Malays are so treacherous, and we have earned their disregard in such ample measure, that fighting them is evidently a very mixed- up business, in which there is inevitably a good deal of informal and impromptu killing. There has doubtless also been much umnecessary destruction of prop- erty, and some looting. But shooting prisoners is a different matter. That is incredible, OMAN: Why, the very idea that a woman dresses to please the men! Man: Absurd! Of course she dresses. to displease the women, comicbooks.com