Life — September 26, 1901 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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national News Company, Bream ODE TO THE POTATO. All hall, O potato! Tuber tneifable, Viand delectable, esculent fryable, lable, bakable, Stewable, chewable, Always agreeable, The mainstay of Ireland, The fount oratorical, The father of tropes And fights metaphorical, Allhall! 1 repeat tt. Lyonnalse, Saratoga, Jacketed, Jacketless, Warmed over, savory, Silced cold In the salad, With onions and vinegar; Browned with the pan roast, Or soft in podrida | Alas, for economy, 1 must cut you out, O detight of gastronomy ! All hail! for the third time | Good bye! Au revoir! When you come off the ladder Mil eat you once more Farewell, Barly Ruse, White Mountain, adie! Plymonth Rock and Buff Cochin, My heart ts with you. My adjectives falter, 1 mix you up with the he But forgive the misnomer Tul 1 meet you again When I think of your peeling, I'm choked with reai feeltog. With rubles and diamonds T put you on a parity, Bat a man can’t eat jewela, On account of their rarity, —Detroit Journal. WILLIAM GILLETTE, the actor, bides bimselt in summer ‘as faraway from crowds and newspaper personals as posstble. Often he uses his time constructing a new work, which Nat Goodwin calla “the Gillette play—athing that acts Itself.” One summer Gillette hired @ yacht, and, as be tells the story, it was a craft without an equal. With a few friends he sct sail from New York and proceeded by way of the Sound upon acroise. They kept close to shore, and a week or so after they left New York were drifting leisurely by # point of laud, at the end of which sat a solemn Yankee fishing. In a few hours the boat had passed the point, and the Yankee aroused himself from bis contemplation of the water and asked : Where are ye from? ‘ew York,” replied Gillette, with a yachtsman’s pride. “How long?” + Stnce August frst,” shouted the yachtsman again, The Yankee returned to his contemplation, and the yacht kept on drifting, bat along in the afternoon there came a voice over the water, and It asked “What year? "—Jarper's Weekly Mas. O1.peN: T hope you and your husband live happlly together. Mus. STRONGMIND: Tshould say we do, I'd just like to see him try to live unhappily with me Philadelphia Record. A Westery clergyman, irritated by the sightof a numter of men quletly playing goit as he was driving, uot walking, tothe church where be was to conduct service ou Susiay, stated In his sermon that It was quite absurd for anstody to hold thatthe Sabbath was intended for a day of en} smeatot any sort. ‘The frame of mind of this worthy, while not very modern, 18 well described by the poet Who wrote the sag “Let Us All Be Unbappy on Sanday," of which the rst vere ta as follows : + We zealots made up of atitT clay, We sour-looking children of sorrow, While not over-jolly to-day, Resolve to be wretched to-morrow, We can't toa certainty tell What mirth*may molest us on Monday, Rut, at least, to begin the week well, Let us all be unbappy on Sunday.” There is a sly reference tos Scottish custom in another S8078 *.. What thoagh a good precept we strain Tul hateful and hurtful we make It! , What though In thus pulling the rein , We may draw It so tight as to break It. Abroad we forbid folks to roam i - For fear they get social and frisky, But, of course, they can sit still at home ‘And get dismaily drunk upon whiskey.” Bat the matn thing 1s to be miserable, even If it be oaly in & way symbolized by pulling down the blinds to the frost of the house and drawing a long face. New York Sun “Now, look here!" sald the policeman to the saloo keeper, “If you ain't careful, the first thing you know wei! make you obey the law an’ close up on time.’ = Chicago Pot. or ale by all Newadeaters in . England, AGENTS. Established 1823. reat Britain. The Ioter- Building, Chancery Lane, ECROPFAN AGENTS—Messrs. Breataco, 37 Avenue del'Opera, Paria, FSTeRBROO The Most Durable Steel Pens 150 Varieties. For Sale by all Stationers. Made Anywhere. Worts, Conden.s.J. THE ESTERBROOK STEEL PEN CO. 2 Jas st, see test WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! LIFE. Vol. 37. Bound in Maroon and Gold, Green and Gold, Full Black. PRICE, $4.00. 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YEL The array of contributors in this special number of Lire will not be equaled by any periodical in the world. I Among many others may be mentioned E. S. Martin, AGNes Repptier, Jas S. Metcatre, Tom Masson, MADELINE S. Baipces, Turoposta Garrison, and Ciinron ScouLarb. Advertising orders and copy for this issue should LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 19 WEST 31st STREET NEW YORK CITY CHA The back cover, printed to corre- CLM be sent in early, in order to get good positions and have plenty of time to have proofs revised. comicbooks.com