Life — February 7, 1901 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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108 Life’s Contest of Beauty. ‘PHE total number of pages received in Li Beauty was 10,751. Of these 140 reache and re Contest of Lire office after the hour explicitly atedly announced for the close of the contest, and were, therefore, ruled out of the competition. Sixty-five of the pages had failed to comply with other conditions and were also ruled out. The principal defect among these was the failure of the sender to write a name and address on the page. The total number of pages left in the contest was 10,516. The following table shows the way the competitors expressed their preferences for the most beautiful face among the twenty. The letters refer to the diagram on this page, and the figures show the num- ber of competitors who voted for the face bearing the corresponding letter as being the most beautiful : For First Choice. 3005 pages chose face *LIPE® For the second most beautiful face, E was named by 2,316 pages, as against 1,393 for face Q, the next highest in this count. For the third most beautiful face, Q was named by 1,424, as against 1,034 for face D, the next highest in the estima- tion of competitors for third choice. For the fourth most beautiful face, I stood 1,242, as against 1,141 for face A. For the fifth, face A1,203, as against 1,196 for face L. ‘or the sixth, face N 1,065, as against 1,003 for face L. For the seventh, face 11,004, as against face B 688. The only paper bearing the seven faces J, E, Q, I, A, N, L numbered in that order is the one reproduced on the opposite page. This was sent in by Miss Etue, EARNSHAW, OVERBROOK, PENNSYLVANIA, who is, therefore, the winner, and to*whom Lire has sent its check for One Hundred Dollars. Kansas, Speak Up! HAT’S the matter with Kansas now? Will William A, White, or any other competent Kansan apolo- gist, tell us? There’s a woman out there named Carrie Nation—Mrs. Car- rie Nation—who goes about with a hatchet and a bag of rocks, breaking all the breakables in saloons, including show-cases and plate-glass windows. * She has two or three accomplices. In Wichita, Abilene and other towns they behind them. Kansas doesn’t seem able to cope with them, but wrings its hands and utters incoherent cries. Whatever ails Kansas anyhow, that it breeds such females, and is so helpless in their hands? What says White? Let us hear from Emporia. The XXth Century Girl. M OTHER: Did he propose, darling? DauGuter: No, mother, not quite. “You are hardly bashful enough yet. But don’t be discouraged, dear; with time and practice bashfulness will come.” They Wanted Him. “FE says that his employers always regarded him as a valuable min.” “* Yes, they offered a large reward for him when he left.” “ you promised to raise my salary, sir, when times got better.” “Yes, but how could I foretell this boom?” comicbooks.com