Life — May 19, 1904 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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whose introduction few roman cers could have resisted. 7. B. Kerfoot. Cardinal Newman, By William Barry. Charles Scribner's Sons. $t.00, The lesue. By George Morgan. The J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. $1.50. The Commuters. By Albert Bigelow Paise. J. F. Taylor and Company. $1.50. The Memoirs of a Baby. By Josephine Daskam, Harper and Brothers. $r.50. The Vineyard. By John Oliver Hobbes. D. Appleton and Company. $r.50 In the Bishop's Carriage. By Miriam Michelson. The Bobbs- Merrill Company, Indianapolis. $r.50. The Key of Paradise. By Sidney Pickering. The Macmillan Com- pany. $1.50. ANK PRESIDENT (rapidly reading a letter): Is the man who wants a job as paying teller, and who just sent in this letter, outside? Doorxeerer: Yes, sir. “Well, lock up all the safes and send for a special force of detectives to watch the building.” “Is he such a suspicious character, sir?” “I should say so. Why, this letter says that he went to Sunday-school until he was eighteen, served five years in the Salvation Army, and is a life member of the Y.M. C. A.” “ DID YOU GIVE PAPA AN ITEMIZED ACCOUNT OF YOUR PROPERTY AS HE ASKED? “YES. I SENT HIM YOUR PHOTOGRAPH.” Ahoy! “ FVERY maa is the architect of his own HEN the Jap Navy heaves in sight, fortunes.” the Russians experience that sinking ‘Yes. That's why the cost so often ex- “rum AMATEUR CHERUB.” feeling. ceeds the estimate." comicbooks.com