Life — July 20, 1899 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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

A HEN AND HER DUCKLET. Thr Chaperone (excitedly): MARIA, COME RIGHT OUT AS PAST'S YOU CAN. 80 tho decantors and the glasses and tho cigars were transferred to the little table, and the luce cover and the blue china were Placed on the sideboard, and the tablo speedily became the centro of attraction, while the sideboard was relegated to soll- tary grandeur as a curio of great value, People looked at it and pretended they understood it, but no one really cared for it. Tho tea-tablo camo of good family—tho Bird's-eye Maples of Maplo Grove—and forbore to taunt its old rival; but it could not resist the temptation to squeak mis- chievously sometimes in imitation of the sidvboard's former groans, MORAL. Truo happiness in this world consists in being popular. Men will sit ail night & around an eight-dollar table that has a decanter and x few chips on it, while an empty seventeenth century sideboard won't hold them for more than a minute and a halt, Kate Masterson, E aro assured, with all the oracular authority ‘8 fashion magazine can givo to its utterances, that tho shirt waint 18 “going out.” If this proves true, it will bo a sad commentary ‘on the progress in good senso that the sex 80 persistehtly claims nowadays. Simple and conventont as it is as an article of attire, the shirt waist has a higher claim to : woo ane TORY? IT'S BEGINNING TER RAIN, survival, Its variety of color brings bright- uss to every vista, whether in country or town, and so adds to tho gayety of nations. Lire, for one, doesn’t believe tho shirt waistis “ going out.” Tho men like it too well. HIS war in tho Philippines will bo over —some timo or other — and, if war is a good thing, wo should now be looking about for another. comicbooks.com