Life — April 4, 1901 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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A Ballade of TPHE town’ * PIPES Easter. 's been masked for many a day In the garb of a pensive penitent ; A “hooded friar of orders grey” Bu Has kept the gates of imprisonment ; ut duty and vow at last relent, The guarded portals are open wide, Penance and fast alike are spent. Iniquity in High Life. OME of the most fashionable and most respected of the reverend clergy of New York are warning their congregations from the pulpit against a growing fashion of playing cards for money. It ap- pears —and the insinuations of our reverend brethren are known to be well founded — that bridge-whist and poker of a very earnest variety are much in vogue in polite circles in New York and Newport; that money, in what used to be thought large sums, changes The world is awake in the Easter-tide. ‘Thrice a week ina saintly way, Her serious gaze on the pavement bent, Lest even a single glance should stray, Marjorie, gowned like a Quaker, went To sew for the suffering indigent ; But Marjorie’s thimble is laid aside, And her eyes meet mine with a shy consent. The world is awake in the Easter- tide. Stole and Missal have held their sway: tude reverent, Worldlings many have knelt to pray, he belfry summoned, * Re- pent, repent.” But in at the window steals the Low, in an WwW ths brave in their April pride, And the people know with a glad content ‘The world is awake in the Easter- tide. EXvor Conscience Your voi bs! of late so eloquent, of warning may now y goto sleep till another Lent The world isawake in the Easter-tide. Jennie Letts Hartewick owners at these games, and that poor young men who happen to take part in them find themselv in very embarrassing predica- ments. It isa bad story, and the worst of it isit is true, We seem to need some new and amusing uses for money, which shall divert without doing mischief. Gam- bling at cards 269 Life’s Short Story Offer. ‘LE will pay Tio Hundred Dollars for the best short story received in this office before August Ist, 1901, Ove Hundred Dollars for the second best, and Fifty Dollars for the third best. The Editor of Lire re- serves the privilege of purchasing all other stories accepted at the rate of two cents a word. CONDITIONS > Each and every manuscript should be ad- dressed to “The Short Story Editor of Lire.”” The Editor of Lire is to be the sole judge. All manuscripts must be typewritten, with the name of the author and number of words written plainly on title page. No story containing more than words or less than 1,000 words will be con- sidered. All manuscripts must be accompanied by astamped and addressed return envelope. Those unaccompanied by postage will be held one month from close of contest,and if then uncalled for, will be destroyed. The contest begins at once, The stories will be r ceived, and those una’ returned promptly. The contest will close on August Ist, 1901, No manuscripts received after that date will be considered. they are ro- ble will be Partners to the Last. SOUTHERN DARKY, wishing the inhabitants of the village to know that he and his venerable partner had de- cided to retire from ac them one morning by placing the following sign above the door of the establishment : “Dis am to infohm de public dat me an’ Ike am goin’ out of bis’ness. Dem dat owes de firm n with me; dem dat de firm owes may settle with Ike.” “FJAVE you seen Jack Liffington’s new +. golf suit?” “ it is gay, I imagine.” “Gay? He looks like a demented Easter- egg.” isn’t a pretty amusement for families. comicbooks.com