Life — December 10, 1903 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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SET QOL E Oger A Bookworm's Ballade to His Friends. YO those dear ones who love me well And now with gifts would bless, I'd say, since naught will curb nor quell Your giving’s great excess, Send me for Christmas—Yes! And spare me injured looks ! — Some sign of friendliness, But let me choose my books! Your tastes no other tastes excel In some things, I confess ; My admiration you compel In all affairs of dress. Send me that sorceress — A pipe! Rod, line and hooks, A collie to caress, But let me choose my books ! I badly need a new umbrel— (This form is O- But as my old one's that—to tell The truth —'twill do, I guess.) And Oh! a game of chess, With carven pawns and rooks, I've long wished to possess, But let me choose my books! Friends, your good-will express Een in cigars, Gadzooks! Give me or more of less, But let me choose my books! Edward W. Barnard, Hooptewhoop Magazine. December. 1903. No, 985, and this prodigious increase in advertising convinces us that our confidence in the judgment of our readers has not been misplaced. Now, we are going to go further yet. We are going to offer still greater inducements to our readers to write us and tell us what to do. We want every man, woman and child in this broad land—and it is as broad as it is long, like this proposal—we want every man, woman and child in this land to feel that it is his or her privilege to write to the editor or manager of The Hoopterchoop Magazine and tell us how to run the publication, We are open to advice as to stories, poems, advertisements or cover pages. We will please everybody. Read our offer: By subscribing for One Year in advance, you receive a coupon entitling ter a month during that year. In thi se, Suggest, praise, Dlame or give orders, as y For TWO Annual Subseriptions, we give you the coupon entitling you to write us THR LETTERS EACH MONTH. For FIVE Annual Subscriptions you receive a coupon conferring upon you the right to send us TEN ADVISORY LE RS per month until the end of the i With a club of TWENTY-FIVE Subscriptions, you get a coupon entitling you to write us ONE LETTER EACH DAY! And, last and greatest of all, if you send us ONE HUNDRED Annual Subscriptions, you get our GOLD BOND COUPON, which gives you the right to send us FIVE LETTERS DAILY and two prepaid telegrams also each day ! We want our readers to feel that this is THEIR MAGAZINE. ‘They are paying A PROBLEM. IP THE MAN AT THE END OP THIS LINE VALUES [1s TINE AT $26 AN HOUT, AND WAITS THREE MOURS AND SEVENTEEN MINUTES To SEND A CHRISTMAS PRESENT THAT Costs $1.89, WHAT IS THE PROFIT, AND WHERE bors THe “cHmIsTMAs Joy" Come IN? comicbooks.com