Life — April 9, 1903 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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324 A WINDY DAY. NORA IS BEATEN AT HER OWN GAM LIFE: clear the price of a few free libraries where people can read and forget their miserie Hav o Svoan Trest: I can make peo- € up enough extra for sugar to de- the expenses of a hundred or so mis- sionaries in Cuba and the Philippines. Leaver: This is what I call a practical Christian spirit. By our works we shall be known ! James Ravenscroft. Ballade of the Undiscovered Country. QL for an undiscovered Where novelists may emigra And with theie thrifty pens in hand ‘Their freshly varnished tales narrate in pass out of date ; e middle West is w Tales of the South are dee: for a land to write about! New England's not in Joud demand, rope’s a theme attenuate ; ve done up India’s coral strand, ireenland they don’t hesitate. With geographic zeal elate. They seek for pastures new, and shout : “Oh, for a wild to penetrate Oh, for a land to write about!” They've left, this romance-writing band, No spot on earth inviolate ; They've set their scenes in“ Beulab- Land,” Or Russian steppes, oF Tis not the plot, the style, Ic is the literary scout ‘That other writers emulate. Oh, for a land to write about! A few are bold enough, when scanned Entire the geographic slate, A spook or med And in a trance to speculate Of Mars and of the moon ; or prate Of spheres our cosmos wide without. Now, will the novel-trade abate Without new lands to write about ? m to command ‘The novelist’s a clever hand,— Witty and wi Tis pitiful to see him stand Baffled, resourceless, palpitat For all the world’s illuminate,— ‘or “copy ” ‘tis turned inside out. Till a new planet e Oh, for a land to wri he's worth his weight! L'exvor. Pity the seribe in: ‘Traveler from the fur redoubt ! Canst of a virgin soil narrate? Where is a land to write about? Olivia Howard Dunbar. Her Objections. ae M* DEAR,” whispered the hus- +N. band who had accompanied his better half to the shop where she expected to purchase a spring gown, “I think that dress with the black lace fixings on it is nobby. Why don't you get it?” “Oh, it would never do,” answered the wife. ‘Everybody is wearing that style.” “Then, here's another good-looking one—this one with the separate jacket and the strap fixings on the skirt."* “Mercy, no! Why, nobody is wear- ing that!" ()REGON is a long way off, but so far as we can judge from the Salem Journal, wisdom abides there : ‘ew York Live in all tts featnres continues to be America’s best, cleanest and most original Dumorous paper. its editorials have # sane and Kindly Introspection that makes the point it seeks to elucidate without the usual bludgeon style of writing directly at the thing Itself. Its political cartoons are the best that appear in any of the papers. and are generally broader than party lines. Its soclety poems, sketches and verse are better than one finda In the alleged society papers themselves, while Metcaife'’s dra- matic criticisms are head and shoulders above anything attempted In that line. The story that Gibson ts getting one thousand dollars aplece for Ofty cartoons from another tilustrated weekly 18 ‘onis a tribate to the demand Lirg has made for his drawings.—Datly Journal, Salem, Oregon. comicbooks.com