Life — January 29, 1903 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- The Original Designations. tions were sent in by Mr. E. W. Snyper, 65 West Thirty-fifth Street, Bayonne, N. J., to whom has been sent Lire’s check for $500, Lire congratulates Mr. Soyder and regrets that under the conditions of the contest all the competitors could not have been successful. The Lament of the Sleepless. a A WAKE, awa +X And the cold gray And I would that sweet sleep would smother The wide-open eyes of me ! O well for the portly police As they tramp on their nightly way! O well for the nightingale, too, Who can sleep through the livelong day. And the hateful hours go on,— And return they never will; Lut O for the snateh of a vanished sleep, And the sound ofa snore that is still! Break, break, bore At the foot of my bed, O Dawn ! But L would give gold, in sums untold, miEy ARE For the ghost of a snooze ora yawn ! 1 With Money George Mison, Tilt to Marry The cin The Successful Sheet. Who Are They ? ' HE competition to ascertain which of Lire’s readers could most cor- rectly determine the faces answering the descriptions printed below them, closed on the fifteenth instant. The cor- rect designations were placed inasealed envelope in October and remained there until the sixteenth of January. ‘The Editor of Lire was the only person who knew the contents of the envelope, which was opened in the presence of wituesses. To make suro of fair play, all the sheets entitled to compete we: marked by a disinterested person be- fore the envelope was opened. Above will be found the heads with the original designations. The sue- cessful designations sent in by the person coming nearest to being correct will be found below. These designa- comicbooks.com