Life — July 17, 1902 — page 15: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

To Her Stocking. OMETIM Dliss, Sometimes it is shoek- ing: AIL truly know of this Dainty silken stocking, Is that it can claim a foot Infin‘tely neater Than a poet ever put In a lyrie’s metre. ignorance is Such a faultless foot as goes Twinkling through the dances, Btarring all prose With poetic fancies ; Buch a foot ax must belong To thes Isn't strange it haunts the song Of a lover poet. an evening's wse. and so it Go then, lyric, with my love In her stockin, And when her dear eyes above, Looking, shall have spied you In your silken Paradise— Angel-like appearing — Tell her this was Love's evice seeret hearing. Feliz Carmen, For Trivial. “FL OW unimportant,” said the woman in the white taffeta, “are the interests of men! My husband spent at least two hours this morning picking out a building lot, while I, in the same length of time, had se- lected three hats,”” MEN live by custom ; al nations by customs. As Usual. ae EL OW did you find the mountains?" “Steep.” Timely. T YHE bill in Congress creat- ing a commission to in- quire into the status of the negro race is extremely timely. tis important, with the elec- tions coming on, and the fate of humanity and Christianity trembling in the balance (except, of course, in Vermont and Massachusetts), to know just how much there is left of the bloody shirt, and CONSOLING. He: 1 Wis 1 COULD BF WITH YOU, DEAR, WHEREVER YOU ARE THIS SUMMER. She: BUT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE A BIT GOOD TIME. THINK OF NOW JEALOUS You ane! whether the remnants are in any condition to stand being waved, A minority of the committee to which the bill was re- ferred reports adversely, observing + “The negro race can never reach its fall development until it is permitted by the Government to work out its destiny, as do other races with which it comes in contact."” This is plain common sense, and as such should be ex- punged from the Record. comicbooks.com