Life — July 30, 1903 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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AT LIFE'S FARM, IN swretNa, Our Fresh- Rid Fund. $6,955.38 1:00 88 Grennell Isiand Sanday Schoo! “Sanshine and Peter”... BaZs ssesssseseas Ravar8e 3s | s QS Sunday, daly 12tm, the children at Live's Farm were rendered extremely happy by fifty quarts of Ice cream from Mrs. William Hawk, with assorted cake ; also fifty hymn-booka, Mra, Dr, Lowe, of Ridgefield, also regated the children with a Itberal donation of cake. ‘The following needs no comment—except our thanks : Live's PRESH-AIR FARM, BRANCAVILLE, CONN. > Dear Sir ; We have sent you four (4) barrels of Crackers to-day. Jt is your own fault if you allow yourself to run out. Yours traly, Chatland & Lenhart. Onur thanks to Mr. J A. Swan for # bundle of clothing for the children. POSTALS FROM LIFE'S FARM. PEAR MOTHER T write to you those few tine to let you know that I am getting along find. Angie 1s @ good girl and famto Please send me 60 for letters as f have no money If you bave not tt never mind tt, Martin sleep with me and kik me. Kisses your loving son. JUNE 18, 1903 LiPES PAR Branchvill conn. Dear Morne { wish you would send me a pair of pans, Tam filling fine and how are you getting along, and Please send me 10c answer from your loving son LIFE MAN has but little alterna- tive in matrimony between the woman whose brain has all run to heartandthe woman whose heart hasallran to brain. Lives Parw, Branchville, Conn Dean Acxt—How 1s Nettle getting along? Danny 1s getting fat and sun burned. We are all well and get all the good soup, oatmeal, crackers, cakes and fine milk we can eat. How ts Lena? Write soon and send me 10c and Danny 10¢ Best regards to all the family Your loving niece ae pTLATT Og WE. are told that George Moore's vol- ume of fragmentary sketches of Trish scenes, called The Untilled Field, is intended to convey bis opinions formed during his recent sojourn in Ireland, under- taken in hopes of inaugurating a Celtic literary and artistic renaissance. ‘The care- ful reader can certainly infer the author's views from the combined stories, but the fictional and dramatic interest of the frag- ments is too weak to attract many readers outside those directly interested in this futile Celtic experiment. (The J. B. Lip- $1.50.) One of the best romances and one of the most attractively finished Looks of the sea- son is The Ward of King Canute, by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, A story of the Danish invasion of England under their great leader, the historical elements are used merely as a rich background to a pure romance of sustained interest. Both illus- trators and publishers deserve praise for their share of the work. (A.C. McClurg and Company, Chicago. $1.50.) F. Hopkinson Smith is a confirmed epti- mist, and one is not surprised to find that among the thirteen character sketches in The Under Dog there are only three hard-luck stories. The rest are bits of fun and oddity picked up in artist rambles through the world and owe their charm largely to the personality of the author. (Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.) It is a bit difficult to determine the ob- jective of Morgan Robertson’ story, Sinful Peck. Sinful i reformed tough, who tricked thirteen other spirits worse than himself into an involun- tary voyage before the mast. If the author purposed to be amusing, there is enough bloodshed and neat ruffianism to spoil the joke. If he purposed to be tragic, there is ‘enough opera bouffe to dispel the illusion. (Harper and Brothers. $1.50.) pincott Company, Philadelphia. The treatise upon Big Game Fishes of the United States, contributed by Charles F. Holder to the American Sportsmen's Library, is one of the most interesting volumes which have appeared in that ex- cellent series. The pursuit of these salt- water monsters with light tackle is fishing raised to the nth power, and Mr. Holder's volume is at once a text-book and a ro- mance. (The Macmillan Company. $2.00.) Bret Harte's publishers are authority for the statement that Zrent's Trust and Other Stories forms the final volume of his works. The quality of these additions to his Cali- fornia tales speaks highly either for the evenness of Bret Harte’s production or for the judgment of his literary executors. (Houghton, Miffin and Company. $1.25.) J. B. Kerfoot, TO BE CONTINUED IN OUR NEXT. comicbooks.com