Life — February 18, 1904 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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Tis story is told at the expense of a recently appointed supervisor of a public school in this city: One day she happened to be visiting a school where @ young incorrigible was undergoing punishment for & series of misdemeanors. The teacher cited him as “the worst boy in the school—one I can't do anything with. I've tried everything in the way of punishment.” “Have you tried kindness?” was the gentle tn- quiry of the other lady. “I did at first, but I've got beyond that now.” At the close of the session the lady asked the boy If he would call and see her on the following Saturday. A boy arrived promptly at the hour ap- pointed. The lady showed him her best pictures, played her liveliest music, and set before bim a luncheon on her daintlest china, wh she thought It about time to begin her little sermon. “My dear,” she began, “were you not very un- happy to have to stand in the corner before all the class for punishment?” “Please, ma’am,” broke in the boy, with bis mouth full of cake, “that wasn’t me you saw, It was Pete, and he gave me 10 cents to come here and take your jawing.”"—Philadetphia Public Ledger HISTORICAL ROOMS “This is where the duke was assassinated “Indeed? But last year you showed us another room for that story.” “So we did, but paired."—Argonaut. that room is now being re- Tux teacher called the bright boy up to her desk. “Now, Homer,” she said, “can you tell the class why Paul Revere was so successful in his ride?" “Because he didn’t start in an automobile,” re- sponded the bright boy.—Chicago Daily News. ISORS, AMT NLL Tux following remarkable essay on the horse is sald to be from the pen of an Indian student: ‘The horse is a very noble quadruped, but when he ts angry he will not do so. He {s ridden on the spinal cord by the bridle d sadly the driver A RECOMMENDATION “1 AM WILLIN’ TO LIVE WID A PaMILY av Two, AT FIFTY A MONTH, IP THERE'S NoT MCCU TO DWO. ABOUT COOKIN’ I'm Hazy, BUT AT BRIDGE I'M A DAISY ; AND U'LL SING IN TH’ PARLOR PUWIN DINNER 18 TARWOI" places his foots on the stirrups and divides bis lower limbs across the saddle and drives his animal to the meadow. He has four legs; two are on the front side and two are afterward. These are the weapons on which he runs. He also defends himself by ex- tending these in the rear in a parallel direction toward bis foe, but this be does only when he is in an aggravating mood. There is no animal like the horse, No sooner they see their guardian or master than they always ery for focd, but it is ilways at the morning time, They have got tai but not ro long as the cow and such other like w mals."—New York Tribune, Hirre ts the Broom's latest fisherman's yarn A man who had just returned from bis holidays in the North said: “I have bad a splendid time. I found a mag- nificent salmon, and played bim for seventeen day I used to go back to him each morning. The man was asked. “Did you catch him? “Oh, no,” he said; “and if T bad caught bim I should have put him back again into the pool. He ts far too dear a friend for me to slay. Why. I have played that same salmon for the past five years for my entire holiday, and I hope to get on to him again next autumn. We are greatly attached to one an- other.""—Sporting Times. Gen. Luxe E. Waricitt, Governor Taft's » cessor in the Philippines, described a ant in a recent letter home. This servant, a boy, was ignorant, Gen, Wri; explained, and then be gave this case in point: “told him at luncheon to fill an empty pepper cruet, and I waited for the pepper, but it was a long time coming. “Finally I looked him up, impatiently, He sat bent over the cruet, with the pepper beside bim ““"How long is It going to take you to do that job?" I sald “ "Not much longer,"” he answered; ‘but you must remember that it is no small task to force the pepper through these little holes.’ “He was filling the cruet, you see, without removing the perforated lid."—New York Tribune native serv: Bonny: Grandma, do your glasses Grandma: Yes, dear. “Well, when you cut my cake will you please take them off?"-—Harper’s Bazar. magnity? Live ts for sale by all Newsdealera in Great Britain. The International Company, Bream's Ballding, Chancery Lane, London, E.C., Engiand, AGENTS. WILSON WHISKEY Hunter is the largest seller in the United States. 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