Life — August 22, 1901 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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146 Our Fresh-Air Fund. Previously acknowledged... Elsie Hopestill Butler and Butler ........ Miss Esien Frothingham. Vivian and Elaine Sauvage Cash, GLC Cash Mra, L. A. Cert. C. E. S. Wood Art Student T.A.W, < Barbara and Betty Brown. B Jack and Maggie. Three Lite Providence Boys. Lite Caroline Porter. I.S.R == $6,994.61 6.00 2.00 5.00 205.61 HE new plan of transporting the Fresh-Alr chlidren from South Norwalk 10 Lire’s Farm at Branchville pleases the youngsters amazingly. Formerly they were brought up on the cars, Now each consigument ts loaded Into wagons and carryalls at the steamboat dock and brought up overland, giving them a sight of the country which many of them never saw before, and they shout and singall the way up, Another tot, eight wagon loads in all, were brought to the farm, last Friday evening, a moonlight drive which was @ novelty to them. lgefiela Press. Letters from Life’s Farm. Lirr’s Farm, BRancuvit - Dear Parents: Two weather over here 1s very cool. The cherries are ripe and we get plenty of them. We go swimming and enjoy the time very much, Hoping all are well at home, I remain, Your son, J. Sirovatha. Live's FARM, BRANCHVILLE, CONN, Dear Mother; (fell very well and get pleuty to eat. We have to go to bed 8 o'clock and have to get up at6.Wo'clock, We arrived here at 9o'clock we have plenty of fun and we bath every day Live's Pana, BRANCAVILLE, CONN, Dear John; 1 hope you and you and your family are well, [am having a fine time, If you see Elste Oebl tell her Gussie said to send some money. Your friend, JeLy i Jor. Not Unusual. MAY: Have you heard of Clara's hard lack? Bette: No. What is it? ‘Now that they are married, they have to retrench awfully to make up the money he wasted while courting her.”” READING an autobiography is a : respectable way of listening at the door, *LIFE: EARL On A History of the Four Georges and of William IV., by Justin and Justin Huntly McCarthy, is now complete with the appearance of volumes three and four. It gives a lively and graphic picture of the political conditions and the chief actors in the political drama of these reigns, while both in method and style suggesting the example of Lord Macaulay. (Harper and Brothers. $1.25 each.) In these days of observ: ager and sympathetic jon of the life of the woods and fields, Nature Studies in Berkshire is per- haps a misleading title for John Coleman Adams's descriptions of the lights and shadows and broader vistas of the Berkshire Hills. Mr. Adams, while he is thoroughly competent in his grasp of his subject, is an old-time lover of the country rather than a modern lover ofnature, and his style is grace- ful and scholarly. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) M like romance of murder and mystery. The story is entertaining, but does not compare with Dodo or The Princess Sophia, (D. Appleton and Company. $1.50.) Etidorhpa, by Jobn Uri Lloyd, is a strange mixture of sense and nonsense. The story, a new Journey to the Centre of the Earth, is a disappointing anti-climax, but the philosophical discussions, for which the story is buta medium, prove Mr. Lloyd ano and independent thinker. (Dodd, Mead and Company. $1.50.) Charles M. andrau's account of a Western boy's first year at Harvard, The Diary of a Freshman, is well written. It is recommended to college men with memorie: (Doubleday, Page and Company. $1.50.) The Way of a Man with a Maid is neither an edifying nor an interesting way accordi to Frances Gordon Fane. It begins with a very commonplace romance and ends in morphine and a welcome si (G. W. Dillingham Company.) nee. J.B, Kerfoot. ‘PROFESSOR DABNEY: Ah, well, ° love is blind, PeNELore: Oh, no, Professor, love isn’t blind—it is cross-eyed ; it sees a lot of things it doesn’t see, and it doesn’t see a lot of things it ought to see. MBBS: HATTERSON : Are those people who =\1 have moved next door to you well-bred? Mrs. Cattersow: Oh, yes. They answered all my questions and never asked me one about myself. The Handy Man Afloat and Ashore is intended as a study of the sailors of the English Navy, but the subject is treated in a very haphazard way. The book is by the Rev. G. Good- enough and savors strongly of a missionary report. (Small, May- nard and Compa’ $1.50.) F. F. Benson has, in his last book, The Luck of the Vails, attempted a Wilkie Collins- AT LIFE’S FARM. ON THE PRONT steps, comicbooks.com