Life — August 29, 1901 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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WHEN BERNHAROT PLAYS ROMEO When Sarah plays bold Romeo to Maudie’s Juliet, We'll see the other mummers bump to keep the pace they set ; As old Jack Falstail Edna May will trip across the scene, And stald Dick Mansfield must tog out as dear, prfite Arline; Nat As Tess could Irving, hunted, tle for shelter to Stonehenge. The fad will heat the book-play craze, “Iwill be the greatest yet, When Sarah's playing Romeo to Maudie’s Jultet Blanche Bates would make a brave Prince Hal; as Topsy 1 John Drew 8; and how Jéan d’Are would do for Kyrie wit As Portia Joseph Jetferson could hardly fail to score, Gillette as Cleopatra would be well worth paying for, And Mra. Fiske as big Bill Sykes would crowded houses draw, While Frederick Warde would make the best Neil Gwyun we ever saw, Then all must get in line or find they re left out in the wet, When Sarah's playing Romeo to Maudie’s Juliet. When Francis Wilson makes bis bow as Little Eva, we Will see Modjeska’s Uncle Tom, a thing worth while to see And Ada Retan, when again she chooses to appear, Will wear a white and flowing beard and rave and storm as Lear. May Irving would be great as Wang, and II. Clay Barnabee As Desdemona couldn't fat to be “way up in There'll be things doing on the stage next season, you can bet, When Sarah's playing Romeo to Maudie’s Juliet, = Portland Oregonian. T $ISRS AT Nea ‘TUE methods of pabitc school Instruction, as applied tn New York City, do not always meet the approbation of the parents of the pupils, as was evidenced the other day when German woman of commanding gure strode Into the school and, approaching the principal, demanded : + What it is, a lobster? The principal politely explained that a lobster was spectes of shell-tish Veil, how many legs has it—dis lobster?” The uumber of legs was stated, © Vell, 1 work me for a hurry, and if your teacher cannot find Letter dings than to ask my boy Jakey how many legs has {ta lobster, und make him come home to bodder bis fadder mit questions, ‘What It ts, & lobster?’ it {8 pad peesness."— Youth's Companion. DURING one of Adelina Pattt’s last tours in the United States, the following preliminary notice was published by a certain Western editor: “Madame Pattt Nicolial, the eminent vocalist and farewellist, will come to us for positively the last lime next year. All those who expect to die Lefore the year after next will do well to hear the human nightiogale on thls trip, for Patt! never sass good-by twice in the same sear, and to die without bearing her strike her high two-thousand-dol- lar note 18 to seek the hereafter In woeful ignorance of the heights to which a woman with good lungs, a castle in Wale tnd who only uses one kind of soap, can soar when she tre — Argonaut Tax value of # recipe Hes partly In Its being accurately set down and followed. Harper's Magazine has the follow- Ing directions for making a breakfast delicacy called pop: overs, as they were Imparted by the Chinese servant to a lady visiting in the fami; * You takee him o “one lit! cup milk, You fxee him one cup fou’ on sieve take pinch salt—you not put him tn lump, You move bia egg lit’ bit slow ; you put bim milk tn, ali time move. You makee him fou’ go in, not move fast, so have no spots, Makee but'led pan all same wa'm, not too hot. Putlee him ia oven, Now you mind you business, No Ike woman rua look at bim all time. Him done all same time biscult.” = Exchange Mx. M, of——was out In the Forty-five. He was takes, and was being brought to the Tower with Kilmarnock and Balmerino A block stopped the sad cortége, and a lads, tooking from a window, cried > * You tall rebel 1" (Mr, M. was six feet four) you wii s00n be shorter by ® head !"* Does that give you pleasure, madame?” sald Mr, M. * Yea, It does." “Then, madame,” said Mr M., taking off his bat aod making alow bow, “1 do not die to vain.” Andrew Lang, in Longmans. A TICKET-COLLECTOR on & nillway got leave to go and get married, and was given a pass over the line. On the way lack, he showed to the new collector his marriage cer liticate by mistake for his pass. The latter studied it carefully, and then said : “Eh, mon, you've got a ticket for a lang, weartsome Journey, but not on the Caledontan Ratlway."— Exchange. “e's quite a prominent poiltician here, is he not?” in: quired the visiting Briton. “Ob, no; he’s a statesman,” repiled the native. “Well, what's the ditference? * “A statesman, my dear sir, ts one who ts In politics because he has money. A politician ts one who has hecause he ts In polltics."— Philadelphia Press sale by all Newadealers in nati London, England, AGENTS. reat Britain. Tho Inter- fal News Company, Bream's Building, Chancery Lane, Et AN A Ts—Mesara. Brentano, 37 Avenue de rOpera, arin, THE WILSON DISTILLING CO., Baltimore, Md. ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE A Powder for the Feet. Shake Into Your Shoes Fouteiove,a powder for so makes tight-titing oF pew shoesteoleary, Iti n certain JTngrowing nails, #e° ting, calle hot, tired, aching feet. ie bare over rt y TO. Sold by all Drugeis A Shoe’ Stirs "the. Donotaccentan imi: tation. 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