Life — October 5, 1899 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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

‘ Love's Shelter. T storms without, and wild and shrill 4 Rain beats upon the window-sill, Above the gray, old earth, clouds frown, Whilo wind in sullen fury raves, Sending dim tears in tem pests down Upon forgotton graves, But here within this quict room, With firo-shine bright and roses’ bloom, No storm can reach our shelter sweet ; Lifo is a song, and love is best, For on tho hearthstone at our feet We have a wejeome guest. A guest unbidden, One for whose prese te we'll bless, at from tho storm he's wandered in rough tangled paths and thorny way To Inde this littio room withio, And come—we hope to stay, Happy together, just we three; For wind and weather caro not wo; For us no storms and tempests rough, But love's soft skies and shady lanes, I'm glad that Cupid knows enough To cone in when it rains! Kate Masterson, An Aspersion. sail one tiger cub to another, hat it is claimed millions of the city’s money are wasted. ' ** How absurd!” exclaimed his companion. “Why, there isn’t one of us in the whole wig- wam that docsn't know how to use his moncy.” A Cautious Lion. V HEN the lion roars and England goes to war we all know what it means, The motive is always obvious. And the nations she selects for victims areso diminutive that the business would be funny were it not so cowardly. With. in a bricf histori- cal period she has picked a quarrel with the Bur. mese, the Zulus, the Afghanistars, and other equally powerful’ naticns, all about a twenticth her own size, Not long ago * she began to bully the Venczuelans, The United States, a fourth-rate military power, said “Scat!” and the lion slunk away, Now it is vi the Boers, And wesce the same old bullying, heavy- PRANKLIN, AS HE ENTERS PIILADELPNIA, 18 LAUGHED AT BY THE GIRL handed disregard of others’ rights as in the previous TK AFTERWARDS MAKRIFS, HISTORICAL BITS. } comicbooks.com