Life — February 14, 1901 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Love, Tam Love, So much referred to In the poets dally grind, most prevalling n of mankind, A remedy for me Is hard to find, A disease, though Not contagious In certain stages, Seems outrageous, Showing up all foolish Moves to heat the hand 1am a red-hot number And rend previous plans asunder When I land. I hall from everywhere, Coming unawar Both day and night Claiming victims left and right Recanse 1 am only An affection ‘The Jester finds in me Matertal for glee. Yet in the world's amfatrs 1am a great power And to Above many Influences, Tam Lov ‘That game of Cupla’s Mysterious and queer, And I flourish like A green tay tree On this terrestrial sphere. Described, portrayed and plc- tured On the stage, Current fiction tems With tales of me On every page. Some would call ‘The novel rot Uniess I figured tn the plot. No one t# exempt from me. Vertly— What fools these mortals be, DW, MeGreery, in Kansas City Tomes. Tung is a him as am Jucrative practice In East § read nor wri tain IAwyer, or at least the public accepts her of the legal profession, who has # very ide police courts, who can nelther How he ever was admit mystery which nether private citizen nor p ever taken the trouble to look Into, to the bar I a. bile officer has He t# @ prominent char- Acter In the Ghetto and often in the pubitc eye in a «mall way. His lack of education Is offset by remarkable shrewdness and Ingenuity. Hts office Is fitted up with elaborate telephone Apparatus, by means of which he makes a deep impression upon his clients and at the same time extorts an unusual fee. ‘The citent enters the office and states the case, some friend or relative tn troable, a police court case that a Magistrate could dispose of In ® few minutes. The lawyer shakes his head and wrinkles his brows and carrtes on such an ominous pantomime that the cllert trembles in his shoes for the nafety of his friend or relative. Then the unlettered lawyer gets up and goes over to the telephone, rings the bell with great ostentation and calls out a number—bis office boy Is at the other end of the wire. The following conversation ensues : “Hello! Is die chudge in?" (Pause) “Tell him dot Mr. vould vish to sbeck wid bim." «Ina dot you, chudge?™ A whispered conversation In monologue follows : “Vill you come ould and lunch wit me, chudge? Yes? Allridt, Meet me ad ‘a. Goot-by.” ‘Then he tarns to his client and Kays : “Vell, die outdlook ts petter, I will tag dle chudge ould to lunch and seddie die matter. Die chudge's tunch vill cost you twenty-five dollars,” and the cltent disgorges with the greatest alacrity and goes away murmaring : “Vot @ pull dot man has. — New York Erening Sun. InTeRVinwRR: Alderman Swelbed, 1 have come to get sour views on the proposed change In the curriculum of the grammar school. ALDERMAN SWELHED: Curriculam! What's that? agin it, whatever It ta, Alderman Swetbed, reading the report of the interviewer next morning : . Vm “Our distinguished townsman, Mr. M. T. Swelhed, was found at his charming home, surrounded by abundant ind. cation of ripe scholarship and sturdy common sense. In reply to our reporter's question he said : “1 do not desire to force my opintous upon the public; Dut this I will say, that I have given to this question long and studious attention, incidentally examtning Into the cur. Hicula of Institutions of learning both at home and abroad, and, although I find In the existing course of study not a few matters for condemnation, still, upon the whole, I cannot say that I should advise any radical change until I have further time to examine foto the subject.* “By George, that feller’s got my exact language, word for word! And he didn’t take no notes, neither! By George, what a memory that feller must have !"" — Exchange. “Dow'r drag my name into print in connection with this absurd affair,” cried the tndignant citizen ; “but tf you do, be sure to spell out my middle name in full,” — Cleveland Plain Deater. PRESIDENT PaTToON, of Princeton Untveraity, recently de- livered a sermon at the Fifth Avenue Collegiate Church, bis subject being “ Falth.”” Dr, Patton spoke of the blind faith of the cllent who pate himself at the mercy of # lawyerta preparing an action for trial and of the confidence of the sick in Intrusting themselves to the physician. +A case of blind falth,” sald the clergyman. “ The doctor writes out prescription, Oftener than not, you cannot read 1t; you don’t know what {t is. He tells you to take it, ¢ Yours not to reason why; yours but to do and die." * Whether or not Dr. Patton meant It, there was a distinct ripple throughout the congregation, — New York Evening Sux in Great Britain. ‘The Inter- "s Building, Chancery Lane, ECROPRAN A NTH—Mesars. Brentano, ‘31 Avenue de Ope! Paris. Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. THE. WILSON DISTILLING € Raltimore Md. That’s ‘Works, Camden, 5.1. FSTeRBROOKS 150 Varieties, For Sale by all Stationers. THE ESTERBROOK STEEL PEN CO. 26 John St, Hew York. STEEL PENS There is nothing so good in the way of a pen. Notice. “‘hGonuine Old Brandy made from Wine, Medsca: Press + London), Aug. 1899, ‘MARTELL'S SHAKSPEARE SAID [GOOD WINE IS A GOOD FAMILIAR THREE STAR | BRANDY AT ALL BARS AND RESTAURANTS, LET US MAKE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE LABEL OF THE BEST GOOD WINE RUINART CHAMPAGNE are tfice vila foosnetr soot ate CREATURE” ruary first. offer has expired. <y Vin Brut supplied. Tho plate from which was printed the picture of “The Widow," by Charles Dana Gibson, was destroyed Feb- This picture, signed by the artist, offered as a premiuin to new subscribers of Lire. The pic- ture is now out of print and no more copies can be Lire Pusiisuing Compan The world-wide appreciation accorded “Canadian Club” Whisky is the best testi: mony as to its intrinsic merit. Its delicate fla- vour and un- mistakable aroma have made it the de- sired whisky of the connoisseur everywhere. was That | We on The New York Central.