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

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REIGN OF THE ROOSEVELT BOYS. No more do correspondents wise In Washington, D. C., Write column after column on The Congress that will be. No more they pen Impressive words About the Senate's polse ; Instead, they give us yards about The little Roosevelt boys. Instead of reading China's woes Because she has to pay, We thrill because the youngest iad + Rode his new wheel to-day.” No gossip of postmasterships Our dally news alloys, But there 1s wondrous stuif about The little Roosevelt boys. “They took a walk * ; + they + They rode out in. « bunch “They played baseball"; “they went to school" ; * They had mince-pie for lunch * ; It must be gay in Washington ; There must be lots of nolse, If all the ttems are correct About the Roosevelt boys. —Batlimore American layed at home” ; ATINY girl of seven gave dinner party the other day, for which twelve covers were laid, and that number of small T SEISSPRS maidens sat down to dine, It was a real little giris* dinner, And the little hostess herself presided, sitting at the head of the table. She had been very anxtous, in looking forward to It, to do everything as tt should be done. “ Mamma,” she asked, * shall we say grace?" ."* sald mamma ; “It will be a very toformal dinner, and I think you need not do wat.” That meant one ceremony the less to be gone through and wasarelief, But the little lady was anxious to have all her guests understand it. So, as they gathered about the table, she explained : “Mamma says that this 1s sich an tnfernal dinner that we need not have grace to-day."—Haltimore Sun. “Come along wid me to the hall," sald Mr, ferithy to his neighbor, Mr. Nolan, ‘There's going to be a free lec- ture, and the subject ts ‘The Fall of Man’; it's free to ivery wan.” “I dannoas I care to lave me own home the night,” satd Mr, Nolan, who sat gloomily nursing a bandaged arm. “If it's falls from horses be’s talking about, I'm niver likely to have wan, for lack of money ; and If It's falls from anny- thing else, from bicycles to ladders, I don’t need to go near him to learn about thim. Me last was down the cellar stairs, and I'm thinking I'll kape to home while ricollection 1s trish tu me mind 1"— Youth's Companion. SPEAKING of sympathetic strikes the other day, Chiet Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, told of one that he conducted when only a boy working on the farm: “The force of hands had dwindled to two, a fellow For sate by all Newsdealers in Great Britalo. The loter- Bream's Building, Chancery Lane, NTS. A Gibson Proof Free “ KNOCK AT THE DOOR” is a pic- ture of an episode in the life of two lovers. two figures are drawn in Mr. Gibson’s most char- | Copyright, 1991, by Life Publusding Od It is specially printed by hand on imported Japan , Paper, 11 X 11, and is matted ready for framing. Each proof is signed pe You can secure the signed proof only by sending $5.00 for a new subscription to Lire for one year. drawing will not be sold or reprinted, exclusive ownership of our subscribers. tion of this offer the plate will be destroyed. New subscribers will receive year’s subscription to Lik can be secured in no other way. 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Ixsrectox : No, my boy, two and one don't make foar JouN (quickly); Please, str, 've got one old lop-eared'g at home.—London Spare Moments. Tury asked the visiting Englishwoman what she thocgt: of New York “LE think It will be charming—when {1 1s finished,” sit the Englishwoman.—New York Evening Sun. Tue extensive authority of parents under the Chiste| laws 1s well known. A Chinaman of forty years, whose mother fogged him every day, shed tears in the companys one of his friends. “Why do you weep?” he was asked. “ Alas, things are not as they used to be" answered a devoted son. “The poor woman's arm grows feebler erey day {"—Sporting Times. EUROPEAN AGENTS—Messrs. Brentano, ‘BT Avenue de l'Opera, Paris. Results Are What Tell. One day of results is of more value than a lifetime spent in talk, and the result of the high standard of quality of Hunter Whiskey is Shown by Its Popularity. Wo. Lanauan & Son, Baltimore, Md. 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