Life — June 25, 1903 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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THE GRASSCUTTER, The thrifty man look Mr. at bis lawn, Alice Caldwell Heg didn’t we do this before? n Rice, of course. Why Happy to know you."— Ob, it's rough prunellas, on “That grass," he says, “I'l cut at dawn.” Princeton Tiger. But it’s very, trprpaprrgrr reas Tuy announcement that Miss Hallie Erminte bars ed cfealt And this is how it looks, when o'er Rives, the Virginia novelist, was seriously consider- The lawn he runs bis dull lawn-mower: ing the plan of giving up literature for the foot- QT? rad ytree lights to assume the role of the heroine in the Tur dramatization of her late novel, “Hearts Cour- “I see, it's merely bent.” ageous,” has inspired one budding poet to song. theo ina: Fr And back ‘oes, though well-nigh spen The authoress’s notable possession is a wonder- »yvYYIYY YY II VDDD ful he d of curling hair of the tint that Dido and occupy SAGE LN be awitened Pi contedea euch bay? other fascinating women of antiquity have pos- “An? "were ‘you He cries, “I'll go the other way nessed. Interviewers have called it by such terms asked bis friend, CeUC ECL LE CECE f « “flame-washed,” "Swedish yellow,” “beaten- irk. bronze," “tawny-russet” and “streaked : “Well Grown desperate now, the shears he snatches Others have contented themselves with the more And cuts the grass—in gobs and patches: obvious a discoorse, Will'm, clive of three letters, Miss Rives was —!tt ca—t! an 5 - once heard to say that when, as a child, she asked wide awake. Only cs AG Gent day, ae CawR her “black mammy” why her hair was not Ike gonnd as {t should A dandelion-s led lawn: other the old woman used to say: panion, oa hs cess Ge © Bch Regs eae “Honey-chile, ah specks, fo" yo’ was borned, yo" Clewaattcommerctal Tapuns done runned th’oo bell bar'-headed.”” Turns The poetical effort referred to, Miss Rives in The Pall Mall Magazine BY THEIR WIVES YE SHALL KNOW THEM, found In ber mail the other day. It was unsigned. gay The unknown man walked down the al and the authoress has been passing It around collection of anecdotes king car and stopped before a seat where an- *mong her friends with Joy. {t ran as follows: reply of an English other unknown man sat reading voraciously scalivite oe) Ris ikabe, letter from “May I sit by you?” he asked meekly = Z 2 the custom in Eng! Certainly, replied the occupant without look- I warble no ballad of sense or of salad, applies to the ing up. “May as well be sociable. Rice Is my Hut a rhyme of a torrid Intent to write to m name." For I sing of the red that emblazons the head “And Freeman is mine. May I ask what you Of a type that’s too many to men! Among Mr. Eve's are reading?” It's wiry and fiery and always piry, sik, was a Mr. “Certainly “Well, what are you read ‘Mrs. Wiggs of Pure trash, I “Who's your wife It's T ve my wife's word for it 2" inquired the original occu Now, And very, ob a vision at's red! lithe And zazas very well bred. Elysian of tints that are Titian— red!!—RED!!! circular this I don’t c: than this?— Mrs. arter, who chews cream-a-tartar ber frizzes of auburn. pant, beginning to betray signs of Interest Has a head of rare red (tho’ a rival has said Disernn “My wife is Mrs, Freeman,” with some signs That she wouldn't for money so daub hern!) meant when he said of pique. IUs gusby and blusby, and maybe not lusby, Minneapolis Messe “Never heard of her. shark is she Though very, ob, very well fed. My wife's strong for Mrs, You see-er, wh: But Is of an airy, new, cap capillary of Some of he wrote it.” As red!—red!!—RED! Speak of it but Some ha “My dear sir," shouted the quondam critic to $lip their minds. “there seems to be a fatal misunderstanding some- For Mrs. Brown Potter a new plan has got ber where, Let me introduce myself again as Mr. Mary To put in a play galumpageous We won't Speak further on the $| E. Wilkins Freeman.” A fresh tawny-top, “neath whose sorrel-bued mop ‘And I,” grinned the man with the book Grew the story we call “Hearts Courageous.” —Exchange Lave is for sale by Company, I Established (823. WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! THE WILSON DISTILLING CO, Baltimore, Md. ‘eam’s Building, Chancery Lane, the yellows, oh, very well said t the cerebral color that yanks the big cruller RED!!! story 1s told of a Scotch preacher wt gave bis people long, strong sermons, and deliver arkably Sunday he asked a friend who was visiting him to his pulpit in the morning. satisfied wi" walked home as they said his host, it was a fair a fair dixcoorse; me at the last to see the folk looking sae fresh and I mistrust ‘twasna sae long nor = Is an instructive and diverting articl on the subject of s of witty lawyers, but strange! ntain the witty lawyer named a brother barrister named E: barrister, when Lord Chancellor for of his own standing at th bar In order courteously to inform them of the fact contemporaries, Adam; and Jn reply to the oficial gentleman wrote Eve—Whether you wear a silk gown or a Could anything be Rochester Post Express. re.—Adam.”* ATING readers know what the edit ger: to which The Messenger begs to call the attentio it$ SubScribers. ve Seemingly allowed To u$ thi i$ a very impor: ant 1$$ue; In fact it'$ nece$$ary in our buSiness you have already gue$$ed the drift of our remark$ all Newsdealers in Great Britain, The International News London, B.C. 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