Life — January 28, 1904 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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A NIGHTMARE OF FAIR wi The latest fad has struck our house everywhere; . Father, women or chair; The Countess of Potocka, with her wan and weary smile, Is pyrographed style; No matter where you look, You'll see her dreamy eye pected nock then, to-day, rlor there's a burnt-in picture of Mme. de padeur. there's women pictures—on each pillow, plate about the house in almost every you sit or s most any way peer from some unex And the workmen ¢ to wax the Where Pom- ‘There's Antoinettes and Columbines upon the window frames, Du Barrys, too, and the names; A dozen Lady the pi Upon the grand piano there's a gilt enameled face Of Cleopatra and from the seat there ap- peal The sorrow laden optic The rocking-chair I like the do Ve So I sit on a princesses—I don't know all Washingtens are scattered through of the much abused Camitl best holds Clara Vere box where no faces yet appear. It's snowing sofa pillows—they And bobbing through a pool : show w girls other curls; I've tripped upon the lovely face of more than one falr maid, As through the pillow flood at night I've vainly tried to wade; This morning when to seo The towel bad some heroine done in embroidery ! e in the vestibule, parlors like big apples In pretty ducherses and jaunty chorus women famous for complexion or for I shaved myself it startled me Live is for sale by company, Bream's Last night when I had carved the roast—this is as true A Gibson girl w the plate! The platter showed Priscilla and to lit I must confess I si carving knife! latest fad everywhere, All pyrographed and photographed on pillow, plate and chair— It makes me feel like—this, 1 kno kind— Congratulating beggars on the fact that they are blind. —W. D. N., Chicago Tribune. as fate— smiling through the gravy on Jobn Alden true bed at them with that big The has struck us bad—it's picture . fs not so very Terre ET TO MUSIC. “Or of the consolations of advancing years,” said a man well past middle age, to a correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal, “is the privilege we take unto ourselves of jesting on the subject with people just a few years older. I took ©, Engian dinner with an uncle, aged ninety. and enjoyed it immensely. I love to hear old men tatk, and this ts my only grea Well, my Great-Uncle Elias told a good many stories of old times, and they were good stories, too, but he repeated himself now and then “My younger uncle, also Uncle Elias, who was present, got a trifle testy after a while, no doubt because he didn’t get a chance to talk quite as much as usual, and he muttered to me: “Gracious goodness, that makes six times Uncle Elias bax told about how he once got even with a schoolteacher who whipped bim when he was a boy. Old men get awfully forgetful.” “"That’s so,’ I said. ‘This makes three times you've said to me that Uncle Elias has told that tale six time: uncle. Mr. Cnoate, the ambassador of the United States at London, tells a story of a sculling match that took place between an Englishman, a student of Oxford, and an Irishman, a student of Cambridge. The Briton won handily. At no time was he in dan- ker of defeat. Moreover, in a spirit of fun and bravado, he had stopped two or three times in bis course, and bad bade the Irishman in the rear “to hurry up.” After the race, the Irishman came in for a good deal of chaff, in view of the overwhelming defeat he bad suffered. But he merely shrugged his shoul- ders. “Faith,” he said, “if I had had the long rests that he took I could have beaten bim easily.”"— Youth’s Companion. GIFTS TO THE PRESIDENT. From Menelik, the compliments of the season. with a brace of Ethlop From Minister Reye: tional law. From Senator Platt and Gov. Odell, jointly. a copy of “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies From a group of Wall Street magnates, a band some pair of blinders. From the offended chivalry of the South, a col lection of burnt corks. ‘ From Senator Hanna, a copy of the “Darling, I Love You in the Sime Old Wye.” From the Republic of Panama, a new arrange- ment of the popular chorus, “He Certainly Was Good to Me."—Evening Post. n ions. @ treatise on interna- song. eat Britain, The International News IF GENUINE Always the Same! WILSON WHISKEY, That’s All! THE WILSON DISTIL Baltimore, Md. ee ARTIFICIAL, VicHy, SELTERS, CARBONIC, The Standard for 282] Tel 3429 Madison, LOOK FOR THE NAME CARL H.SCHULTZ ! — — ——— TRE NAME CARL H ScHULT? ON \ ALL MINGRAL WATERS IS GUARANTEE | THE NAME IS EVERYTHING. * Esterbrook on a pen Is@p yan absolute stationers Accept no\/substitute. Works, Camden, N.J 26 Joha Streat, N.Y. Fastest Trains in the World—On the NEW YORK CENTRAL comicbooks.com