Life — January 14, 1904 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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ODE TO THE MEDICAL MAN. down the center aisle of the Senate chamber with its THE EVOLUTION OF THE FOLDING BED. band playing ‘Hail to the Chief” And until this day that marching club does not understand why it couldn’t—Saturday Evening Post. The hapless modern wigh Sick with ndicitis ; But what to him De Frat: Have you anything new to folding bed Draten: Only this, madam, and it really ts Is wrong and grim quite a success, On arising in the mors To the physician right ts. —_—— touch a spring, it turns into @ washstand and bathtub. After your bath, you touch another spring, and it becomes a dressing case, with a French plate mirror, If you breakfast in your room, a slight pressure will transform it Into an extension table, After breakfast, you press these three buttons at once, and you have an ht plano. That's all it mosquito-bitis, f will do, except that when you die, it can be changed pholic tights, SAN Into a rosewood cotfin. —New York Weekly. When “practice” growing slight 1s, ¢ doctor's » Inventing something “1ts.”" “Wuar's that watch wo asked Mr. Kloce, ts ating to one fh the show case In fact the sick man's plight ts “Ten dollars, ied the jeweler. constant frightis y P “I'M take it.” said the customer, and after pay- It seems to me ing for it be went out. There soon will be The next day he came around again An awful rumpusitis! “ “This watch doesn’t exactly suit me,” be said, New Orleans Picayune. “What's that one wort pointing to another. “Fifteen dollars TI take that instead of this one, if you don't Unquestionably trite PLY OP A YOUNG WERREW SCHOLAR: LOCAL delegations who journey to Washington Locat J MADE HS TEACHER HOT UNDER TH see favorite sons sworn in as senators or re ® mind.” ted to make demonstrations THAT THE Prive sENsEs WERE . A day or two later he came again. ment when the oath Iministered. POR OORS EVENT: TIMER TNA: “How good a watch have you got for twenty-five When Senator Foraker, of 0} a dollars?" he inquired. senator he was the honorary presid fcitand MANSFIELD has, lke many other “Well, twenty-five dollars will get a pretty good ing club In Cincionatt that be ne: men, a host of enemies. One of these enemies patd timepicce, id the jeweler, banding one out band in the State s z bim a sincere compliment last year. Here's one with a gold-filled case, and full Jeweled, seud tor wascxcing ‘ashingtor ng Mr, Mansfle playing in “Beaucaire.”’ 2 The movement ix warranted.” resolution the enemy, a stage carpenter, peered at him fro “TH take it the J the wings of a Cleveland theatre, scornful < 4 He p difference, took the watch and weat elected to the United but gradually less scornful. y And, as the act went on, the carpenter, though After the lapse of a few days be made his ap- bat in his trun hated the actor, became more and more ab- pearance once 1 the club also triump sorbed. He stood silent and rigid. Ie watched “Have you got a first-class watch with a “Whereas, it is suitable t hould recox- every gesture, he obverved every intonation. of t gold case that you can sell for fifty dollars?" be nize this event in a fitting manner: therefore, be It And finally, when the curtain fell ex- any Here it § “Resolved, that this club, with full brass ban! 2 with flushed check a little tremor “Well, ll take i” said Mr. Kloce. “Here's the hall go to Washington on the fourth of Mare olce: other watch and twenty-five dollars, That's the ose next, and at the moment when the Hon. Joseph Ben * that man could act a gridiron.” I really wanted at first, but [ hated to pay out all son Foraker takes the oath of office it sball marc —New York Tribunc that money Youth's Companion Lire ts for Newsoewlers in Great Britain, The Inter pal News Company y 1 J Oe: IF GENUINE rs THE NAME IS EVERYTHING” Mays the Name! Esterbrook That’s All! “re Eff] ibe, world, THE WILSON DISTILLING CO. Amn ciaponic. | varicties of The Standard for 40 Years every pu FLORIDA, AUGUSTA, THOMASVILLE westeesee IRI) ff stacioners \Y fave them. Fi substitute. Quickly reached by the through train service of the Atlantic Coast Line. The quickest route. For rates, reservations, etc., write, call or ‘phone GEO, B. ECKER, Agent Passenger Department, 1161 Broadway, New York. *Phone, 2142 Madison, LOS ANGELES—Four Days from New York or Boston—By NEW YORK CENTRAL. comicbooks.com THE ESTERBROOK STEEL PEN CO , forks, Camden, N. J. 26 John Street, NY. =