Life — October 11, 1900 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE * Pilgrimage Thru Society-Land. running in a magazine and will not all be published until FPHERE is a Realm wherein the Chosen December. Few” It has always been supposed that Mr. Marion Crawford Can gaily chatter when had the machinery of his art (or is it the art of his chance to meet ; machinery?) down fine, but it is surely disappointing to pnsense reigns the catch him so behindhand. y moments thru, The stage, however, has done the best it could under the fh and Folly circumstances. near the royal seat, Mi With outstretched arms Afcer the Honeymoon. thejoyous Pilgrims greet, CHE: Yes! A woman’s history is summed up in one While seated on the noble word—-sacrifice: Shrone of Gold He: Indeed! Whose? Great Mammon lays its tribute at their fi For what? Did not the His Reward. orious Knights of Old ‘OP HE best way to propose to a girl is not to think of homage at the shrine of all that Worth extolled ? what you are going to say beforehand.” 5 Castleton muttered this sternly to himself as he walked Pi ly along with defiant stride. ‘‘ Yes, sir,”’ he exclaimed, Strange 4 A sort of Animal Mex . “it’s the only way, and I am not going to make a fool of In which the Wanderer startles with surprise myself. I've made too many after-dinner speeches. learned To note the numbers he doth recognize: them by rote beforehand, and failed at the last moment, not The Social Lion, Imbecile, Bore, Bear to know that these premeditated outbursts are absolutely (The Lights on which Soci relies), unreliable. I don’t know what I am going to say, and I The Wit, the Sage and Patriarch are there, don't care, It’s sink or swim. I want that girl to marry The Honor, Fame and Glory of this realm to share. me, and I’m going to tell her so, But, hold on! I musn’t The Wanderer heard strange sounds within this Place, think of a word of it.” But soon discerned the noise was conversation ; Castleton. began to whistle, set himself more firmly And he was not surpriséd that this Race together, and hurried on to the scene and the issue 1d use an odd mode of communication— which would determine his fate. Seductive phrases It was in keeping with their lofty station. Still, it was of a most amusing kind— Devoid of sense, yet full of ani And it was plai ey ‘Their rule: “All ye who enter here leave Thought behind.” Fair Maidens flitted thru this Fairyland ike robes, cut quite “decolleté" ; And to the guilde i ‘ommand, And Charming ‘ Nothingnesses” to them say. it was a beautiful array Of Mrilliance, Humor, Grandeur, Gush and Guile, In which the ones who there the longer stay Appear the gayer, give the brighter smile, And surely, year by year, become more juvet ©, happy they that dwell within this sphere, From contact with plebeian things secure! ‘ommon mortal dares to enter here, Its portals ope not to admit the poor— Wealth is the ‘‘ Open Sesame,” that's sure. From this existence of enraptured bliss o wish for odious knowledge can allure. For who can dream of greater happiness Than ignorance brings? No one; naught else compares with this. J. Henry Orme. Behind Time. ‘P HE incredible slowness of literature, in its efforts to keep up with the Drama, is much to be deplored. Here's Miss Viola Allen, acting in a play dramatized from Re Ce - 5 “YOU HAVE MY (IC) SHYMPATHY, FRIEND. BERN REDUCED TO (111C] Mr. Marion Crawford's latest novel, which is even yet THAT AMOUNT MYSELP-MANY A TIME!” fm comicbooks.com