Life — November 12, 1903 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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468 The Age We Live In. O get-rich-quick, with reckless haste We risk our little store ; To g "4 With fifty ki we eram the young. sof h To get-strong-quick, we strain and pull, ust food we pick s we moderns need And saw Until it see A sche et-slow-quick MeLandburgh Wilson, Ludi Feminarum. CPE physical director at Welles: ley having condemned basket- ball as being unfit for girls, the question at once ai an fford to go back to pillow- fighting in our institutions for the higher education of women ? It is true pillow-fighting brings quite a few muscles into play. But there is the inconveniet of charging a vital considera- tion in modern amateur sport we admission, Two Letters. DEAR Me: 1 hav before m your paper just finishes % first editoria Iam but a humble personage in the world of affairs, but it privilege, 1 would t exception, this est, cleverest and most y mind, that ever appeared in print. [admire you hugely for your brave stand in thi of the Riots of Unreason, and feel certain that it will appeal toma 7 you will allow me the like to state that, wit article is t y of the orde sorry your paper do these working Very truly yours Wr. A, Miller, Pittaveceiia, October 20, 1005. Dear Lave: If suggestions are a ble will you kindly ask your ** Hades Snapshots in artist to publish his snap of the place where people tical jokes on newly mari seems sometimes that education of public taste is a colossal and more or less thank- less job; but as you appear to have more than ordinary perseverauce and success in this direction, perhaps the above idea will appeal to you as a means of alleviating such “LIFE: atrocities as are frequent amongst a class which ought to know better. Several flagrant cases in families of prom in the West prompt this suggestion ; perhaps others will follow inaugurate a * reform Hopefully yours Esrinen, Mo., October 19, 1905 your lead and The Fad Society's Improved Guide to Health Economy. and [port wear clothes; they retard the free movement of the body. DON’T eat anything. Your stomach may get out of order. DON'T drink. You'll get again. DON'T remember anything — expe- cially your debts. DON'T worry— let the other fellow do it. DON'T work. It is very bad for the health to tire yourself. DON’T lend: prrow. DON'T anything. If you should want anything, don't buy it; beg or steal it. DON’T try to say anything when you talk. It consumes brain power. DON’T marry young. Don’t marry old. Don’t marry at all. If you are tempted to marry, attend Court on a divorce day. DON'T get sick. If you think you are sick, whistle or turn somersaults. This is Nature’s cure. DON'T go to law. Choose the lunatic asylum. DON'T get your mouth, DON'T read ; eyesight DON’T tell the truth. You'll get the reputation of being poor—or silly. DON’T grumble. Take what you can get. If you can’t get it, take it. DON'T ever be displeased. If your favorite corn is stepped on, say * Thank you, DON’T be dissatisfied with any- thing. If your bank breaks, be thank- ful you didn’t have more in it. DON’T lose your temper. Nobody will pick it up and bring it home, even if they stumble over it. DON'T take advice—give it. be loved. DON'T pay your debts. It’s the sure way to keep poor. thirsty want excited. Keep ice in it may affect’ your You'll A MOT-AIR BALLOON. do anything—do everybody. fret, don't cry, don’t laugh, don’t buy, don’t sell, don’t grieve, don't love, don't play, don't humor yourself in anything, don’t breathe— DON'T DO anything but die ! Henry W. Francis, Always Hope. DIRST CITIZE! I see the Presi- dent has called an extra session of Congress. Seconp Crtiz y not do any Oh, well, they um (the distinguished painter) : 0 MMARD LUCK. MERE T'VE SPENT THE WHOLE WEEK PAINTING TUS BEAUTIFCL LAND: CAPE, AND NOW SOME ONE COMES ALONG AND STEIS ON IT comicbooks.com