Life — August 24, 1899 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Lines to the U. S. Mint. H, wonderful herb of the shade, «LIFE Deop-nurtured near Nature's green heart, For the wise man’s delight thou wast made, Ayo, for juleps—when mixed by the art Understood in the Land where they know what good ham is, And where, once, great statesmen were nursed by black mammies Who taught them to heap up the ice, A gallon, or more, broken fine, In a silvery bowl on whoso marginal scroll Nymphs danced in a frenzy divine; And then of cut sugar to drop in a hint, And fill all the crevices full of fresh mint! Now—of courso you will try—as it steeps, { Pour Bourbon in, Bourbon so old That it sighs from the crystalline deeps And fades, like a flower, in the cold; Thon, just add a gill of Jamaica, to blend The soul of the bowl with the soul of a friend. John Paul Bocock. The Parrot: HA! HA! CAN'T QUITE DO IT, CAN You? ry The Eephant: 00,1 DON'T Xow! THE CRUSHER The Elder: WAtt, YOU PLEASE TO REMOVE DAT HEN-COOP WHAT YOU DONE GOT ON YOU HEAD SO DAT I CAN OBSARVE DE PREACHER? “TEN-COOP, MISTER SPOONER! HEN.COOP! IF DAT STRISES YOU AS BEING A HEN- COOP DEN 1 SARTINLY WILL REMOVE IT, POR WID YOU IN DE VICINITY DRY ISN'T A BIRD SAFE WHAT'S ON IT.” Mourning Costumes. It is not really mourning to wear white, even during the summer, imme- diately after the death of some relative, There should bo worn instead black muslin, black lawn, black mousseline de sole, and all the other thin materials in dead black. These should be made without any whito trimming whatover, and, if possible, ehould be trimmed only with the same material. After six months a nuns’ veiling trimmed with rows of dead-black ribbon or a lustre- less crépe de Chine may be used, This, however, would not do for a widow; though after six months it might be worn by a woman who bad lost somo near reiative.— Harper's Bazar, Av? if the deceased person is only a half sister, the passementerie might be lightened up with a little pink and yellow stitching. In the seventeenth week of mourning fora first cousin once removed it would be a touching tribute to wear black silk stockings with violet tops and shoe- strings to match, Grief which must express itself in the outer garments is apt to be so sincere that its gradual mitigation should be very carefully marked—otherwise its original sincerity might be doubted. T appears that various of the English reviews and newspapers are scotling coarsely at Colonel Roosevelt's narrative of the exploits of the Rough Riders, and iotimate that the commander of that heroic regiment bas overestimated the importance of that organization and its services. As much as that bas been suspected, even in this country,