Life — September 5, 1901 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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TO THE MODERN HEROINE, ‘There was a time when yoa, falr mald, Was languishing and gentile. Your heart quite ruled your Sead, And you were sentimental | You had the most enchanting way Of falling in a swoon Just as the Lero on the scene Stept—not one whit too sooa 1 A trite frivolous you were, Perbaps a bit Mirtatious. But gentle to the last depres, And fascinating—Gracious t No more tn ringlets carts your balr, For curts are out of fastton, And with them faloting, too, has gone ; You now Oy iu & passion At the mere thought of sentiment The head now rules the heart, Since novel writers, ove and all, Have given you the part Of lady-hero, brave and bold, A leader of the fray. It matters not if on the land Or on the sea you stay. O tell the writers of to-day We're tired of biunderbusses, Of ladies fair in man's attir Of massacres aud fusses ; Give us an old-time love amfalr With maiden sweetly coy. Wo want a tender, loving girl, And tot 8 rough tomboy 5 1 SEKSORS At Wally We're tired of the dashing matd, We wauta girl who cries; We want a girl with Quity hair And lovely, Uig blue eyes. A little sweetheart made for love, A man of proper size, A novel full of sentiment— Not history tn disguise. Z — Cella Myrover Robinson, in New York Sun A LESsox on the evils of talebearing and how an English schoolmaster regarded {t, 1s conveyed Ly Irving Montag, the War artist, ina reminiscence of lils school dass. Talebearing, or * peaching,”* 1s considered among boys the most dishonor- able of offenses, and young Montagu was duly impressed by this fact, as the story goes on to show : Ten fellows were absent; they had gone to Bradley's farm, out of bounds, and were canght red-handed in the possession of illicit stores by * the doctor." Seven were to- tercepted at the cross roads, laden with supplles ; they were lnterrogated as to Ihe names of the other three, and, with sneaking hope of lightentug their own punishment, at once gave them up, The other three were Tom Reresford, Nipper Watkins and your humble servant, better knowu In those days as Peg Montagu. Then came the query to the trembling three: “ Who were the other sevent?"* We fondly hoped that they had escaped, looked first at one another, then at the doctor; no one spoke. Threats fol- lowed, but we stood to our guns, and returned to the school ati tn custody, The great bell was rung at an unwonted hour, and the allence was painful as the portentous step of the doctor was beard approaching. Mounting his rostrum, he called oat : “ Beresford, Watkins, Montagu, stand out! Do you still Tefuse to give up the names of those boys who Were 81h yoa out of bounds ?* “Yes, sir,” In a sort of load whisper. “Very well, I give you Ave minutes to decide.” And then came the most fearful five minutes we Mat ever experienced. At the end the doctor sald : “Will you give up those names” (an awfal pa or do you absolutely refuse to do so?” We feltias if about to place a fusee at a given n-iuent to a barre! of gunpowder, as we replied : We refuse to g've them up, sir.” “Very well.”* sald the doctor, in a voice of thunder, “alnce that ts the case there ts only one course 1 follow Come up here, each of you, and let me (another awfi! pause) “shake you by the hand and congratulate you on Laving bel on as you have done, in spite of prospective petsliies, age matter of school-boy honor. I congratulate you.! say, oa havimg refused to give up the names of thoee other fellows who, to save themselves, were ouly too ready to give up youra* How those rafters rang again, as the dear old doctor gare ua that never-to-be-forgotten lesson! When the excttement had somewhat subsided, he concluded by addressing the remaloing seven : “1 have no punishment to give you, except It be by ex. pressing a hope that you may not be so ready on a fatare Occasion to screen yourselves at the expense of otters” — Youth's Companion, Mxs. Eby : There ts no matter ; all ts mind. Luansen : Is movey matter? “There 1s no matter." “Well, 1 Rave # million dollars in my mind. Wl you please cash me a check for # bandred thousand?" “Yea, In my mind.” matter—pever mind.""—Newark Daily Adcertiaer, national London, For sale by a Newsdealers in Great ritalin. The Inter- ny, Bream’s Building, Chancery Lane, ry Sagland, Agents. EUCROPRAN AGENTS—Messrs. Brentano, 37 Avenue de l'Opera, aris, Established 1823. 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