Life — December 21, 1899 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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538 V.B.: Delia, I tell you, it takes a man, after all, to arrango,theso things, Tact didl it. Mus, V. BB. (entering kitchen only to sind Delia backing out): How do you do, Delia, What, you aro not going, ure you ? Dewta: Yes'm, Iam. Oi've bin reflictin’ the mather over, an’ tho placo won't suit, Mrs, V. B.: But what makes you think that? Dett1a: Suro, ma’am, your husband 18 altogither too palaverin’, Thom’s tho koind thot always makes the most trouble, «LIFE - The Thoughtful Yardstick. YARDSTICK thity to himself did muse As ho walked along the streot, “I must buy a pair and a half of shoes Because I have three fect.” ‘arolyn Wells. HE Boers are getting tolerably respectful treatment from the British newspapers, and a fair measure of justice is done to their fighting qualities. Fifteen centuries, or there- A SUPPRESSED DISPATCH. abouts, of Christian preaching has not availed to climinate. or even to weaken the British propensity toadmire an adver- sary who hits back hard. There is an element of fair play about that which is to beadmired. Until British Christianity is perfected to the point of turning the other cheek, it will neither expect, nor understand, nor admire that sort of forbearance in anyone else.