Life — May 5, 1904 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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All Sorts Pass Through. W' TH ups and downs of hot and cold, It scems a question whetner Nature isn't A clearing hy Dam MERWIN cous of is one of the most those younger writers whose literary taste runs to romantic realism. He has alrcady given us several stories in which true love and keen business were faded in good American fashion, and his new tale cf the smuggling industry on the Great Lak The Merry Anne, is an excellent example of his style. Other and more cosmopolitan wanderir are Theodore Roberts's subject in Meming, th enturer. Heming is a British army offices war correspondent, aad an attract- Davi His adven- sant anodyne for lazy days anted to lea melucky, n kni tures make a ple devilemay-care, brand of mode ht errant. are w © no after effe Could a bulldog be found to play the title Day of the Dog ¢ McCutcheon’s story of Zhe would make a tremendous hit The stage accessories and the stage * business” would supply the lacking illusion of rea 1 disgu aining of a single funzy situation seem to have felt this, The put have added a rate an The result is a of a good idea ex- medium, Th $ and decorations. andsome presentation pressed in th heatrical influence is also f inant in Winning nedy story by Anita Him Back, a farce-c SHE REMARKED ON HIS SUTT THERE WAS A COW-PUNCHER IN BOTT WHO IMMEDIATELY STARTED TO SHUTTER, WHEN A GIRL WHO WAS BRAVE OTHERWISE YOU'D Loox AWYCLLY cUTTE ! 2 LP EB Vivanti Chartres, with most of Uh istics of the ave French. ¢ character- tions from nthe dramatic adap! © with the same dazed wender at local pai with which one leaves the theatre in the other. Tn buying d works of a humorist, like in buying shelled nuts, you run the risk of a surfeit, Th pets to have shells and meant George Ade’s slang composi+ tions to cot G Into Society is Me. You read you read three mo: out one at atime. Kreaking Ade’s latest collection. e item and laugh; thereupon rapid succession and Moral : a loudly for a mental soda-mint. Be continent and you will be amused Joan of the Aliey is a new story of the slums by a new writer, Frederick Orin Bi. lett, Tt is full of which show thi ental touc seein, and quick instinct is also threaded by a strain which may indicate youth nd-may indicate an eye to the main chance Here's hoping that th better of the artisan. artist may get the Lincoln, is an Cap'n Eri, by Joseph example of the.character sketch run to seed, a genre study of the usual retired Cape Cod “captain,” expanded to four hundred pages Retired Cape Cod “captains” are codgers, but the type is sadly hackneyed, and Mr. Lincoln's handhn use and the stream of his narrative lacks current of itis di H.W. Conn's Bacteria, Yeasts and Molds tn the Home isa little reference book wherein the author has achieved a very satisfactory and the old field sunded by green boots and green cheese compromise between the popular technical, and covered the wide house! el Merwin, (The ens (EGE Day of the Dog. Vy George Barr Me- (Dodd, Mead and ing Him Back ¢ Smart Set Publishing Company reaking Into Si per and Brothers. By Theodore Re and Company, $1.50.) By Anita Vivanti Chartres By George Ade. (Har- $1.0.) y. Dy Frederick Orin Mifflin and Company By Joseph C. L mpany. $1.50.) tlete, $2.50) coln, (A. S, n the Home. Wy ny.) a, Yeasts and 3 (Ginn and Ci The Strange Part. = HE doctors didn't know what was the matter with him.” “Well, here’s nothing unusual about “ But they sa¢d they didn't." The Burden of Great Learning. PON obtaining his college degree, and acknowledging with tears in his eyes the many pedagogic honors. that had been conferred upon him, Clarence then looked about him strenu- ously, and was at last overjoyed to obtain a job as second office boy. But,” said his employer, sternly, “your continuance in the exalted posi- tion in which it has pleased Providence to call you will depend entirely upon the sum total of your know * Of that,” said Claren dge.’ “have no concern, I have spent a great deal of time and papa’s money in acquiring inside information as to how the uni- verse should be run.”” So saying, he settled down to dull ine, * [have found," said Clarence, send of a week, sophers that the Greek no positive hints as to he proper way to pacify t a@ conductor his car with a T shall endeavor to maintain my dignity.” “It 1s borne in upon me,” said Clar- ‘that when one jumps upon load of bu les. Nevertheless, ence, at the end of another week, an easy familiarity with the differ tion of atoms in chemical analysis does not help me to keep the dust out of my eyes while sweeping out the office. But I must still, however, keep up my opinion of myself if possible."* “Much as I dislike to believe it,” comicbooks.com