Life — April 7, 1904 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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with an inspiration that all true moth- ers will applaud—quickly tore up the blanket, and with a pine-needle and some strands of yarn torn from the blanket, and an acorn shell for a thimble, the clever old thing made a pair of panties for the little cub—and as proud and stuck-up as a boy in his first pair of breeches, he is a gloomy misanthrope compared to that baby bear. Suddenly the cub’s face clouded, and feeling about the sides of his new breeches, he let out a yell of disgust and disappointment—the old lady had provided no pockets! The editor of the Girlies’ Steam Radiator Companion was at first a bit doubtful about this, until the stenographer re- assuringly told him that she herself couldn't have believed it if she hadn’t heard the convincing veracity of the tone of my voice with her own two Johnnie’s Sermon. O INNER, come to Sunday-school,” Says little Johnnie D., ** Observe the blessed goid brick rule And try to live like Me. “ "Tis good of Me to ask you here ‘To hear My maxims grand, To listen to My words of cheer And shake My holy hand, “ But [ must point your worldly looks Toward a higher zone, While Father steals your pocketbooks And everything you own, * Turn not your thoughts to worldly dross, As you more saintly grow. The righteous soul can feel no loss And Father needs the dough. “ Thanks tothe Oil Trust's kindly glut Your finish I can see, When Pa runs up expenses,—but I'm glad Salvation’s free. “ Paownsthe Earth, but Heaven is mine, So save your souls I must, When I absorb the Sin Combine In My Salvation Trust." Wallace Irwin, RIVATE SECRETARY: There's a Duke outside waiting to see you, American MaGnate: I can’t sce him just now; there’s a directors’ meeting. “If you keep him waiting, he may not like it." “Well, give him half a million to keep him quiet.”” “As proud and stuck-up.” Prestigiatory. AC VER magician, one sultry noon, Did a trick which few men can— He turned a corner into a saloon, And a high-ball into a man. A Step in the Right Direction. IIE service pension bills before Congress present some highly satisfactory features. Unpatriotic examiners can no longer question whether the fact of having served in the Civil War in itself constitutes ph: disability, nor lay annoying weight on the trivial circumstance that the applicant is perfectly able to provide for himself, The great principle is at last recognized that patriotism means pensions, and that by enlisting the veterans established a lien on the Government for all time, regardless of their need or the nature of their services, Of course, there are some who will denounce these bills as equally absurd and vicious, who will say there is no proof that the majority of those to be benefited need the help, and that such legislation destroys the worth of the pension as an honorable recognition of good service. They will even claim it is an insult and a wrong to unnumbered veterans who volunteered from purer motives than love of gain, and who have scorned to join in the sordid scramble which has gone far to bring the very name of the Grand Amy into disrepute. Sensible people, however, will realize that this is idealistic nonsense, and will be grateful that the bills at least limit pensions to those who actually enlisted, instead of including all who rendered the Government the in- estimable service of not taking up arms against it. CN the door to success, as on many another door, are two words, Push and Pull.”" ‘Try both. comicbooks.com