Life — September 1, 1904 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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«“Contemptuary’’ Novelists. *Q\UITE a lib’ry, deary, ain’t it?” said Mrs. Binns, comfortably, following her visi- tor’s glance toward the table littered with books. “I ain’t had time to put ‘em to rights yet; they litter over everything and I don’t inow where to Moses I’m goin’ to find room for ‘em all, but I-s'pose I shall, somewheres. Carrie sent ‘em; a hull boxful; and they're all contemptuary novels, “You see I got a little wore down nursin’ and now he’s well again, doctor says up and take things easy; says I) top doin’ so much, an’ not bother about that ain’t getting done because I’m em. ‘I can't,’ says I to that, plump you can,’ says he. ‘You can do it right out o’ your world into other jolkses—iolks that’s new and interestin’, and that haven’t got to be nursed or managed or ufter in any sort of way. I prescribe ys he, ‘a course of fascinatin’ novels, in’ as they make ’em,’ “So last time she was down, Carrie found me radin’ ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ an’ ‘The Heart of Midlothian’ and ‘Oliver Twist’ ‘side 0’ me in the mendin’ basket, and she gave one kook, 1 then she laughed and laughed and aked if I couldn't get anything newer than tat. ‘What for?’ says I. ‘They’re thrillin’, and I liked ‘em when I was a girl; why shouldn't I read ’em over again?’ ‘You should if you want to,’ says she, sort of 'pologetic and scothin’, ‘but wouldn't you like to make ac- with some of the contemptuary ? Well, I s’pose I must have said I but if I did ’twas more polite than r as to truthfulness; it’s dretful easy into sayin’ things that kind of way. “But next thing I knew, down come the con- temptuary novelists, and here be I feelin’ bound tomake acquaintance with ‘em. Well, maybe I stall git inside the covers, but don’t you tell Carrie if I don’t! I’ve kinder glanced into some of ’em a'ready, an’ they don’t tempt me a site Mebbe I could read through ’em if I give my mind to it hard, but I jest know I couldn't ever feel friendly with ’em, same’s Ido with Dickens and his storyfolks, and Scott and his, an’ Mrs, Stowe and hers. They don’t sem so kind o’ human, some ways; they’re core jest children’s stories for grown-ups. “They've got better covers, though—awful pretty some o’ those bindin’s, now, aren’t ? And the illustrations are fine—fine! tough I must say, some, bein’ colored, makes ‘a more an’ more like nursery picter-books, my mind. But at any rate I’m rejoiced ’s somethin’ I can praise up honest and ‘agthy when I write to thank Carrie. I'd be ed to tell her what wasn’t true, and she’s teen real kind. “Yes, I expect to finish ‘Oliver Twist’ to ht, and to-morrow I’m goin’ to begin on David Copperfield’; I’m anticipatin’ a real fod time with it. But if you see Carrie before A Modern Gasoline Car. POPE quality and reliability; 1OH.P. - Without Tonneau es ; a Every feature up-to-date. Full $1,200 1,050 Immediate Deliveries The most for the least money. Every modern essential. The high- grade, low-priced Gasoline Runabout; 6 H. P. Price, $650 \ All Ready for Delivery wwe BRANCHES: Naw York — 12 Warren St. Boston — 223 Columbus Ave. PROVIDENCE, R. 1 —15 Saow St, ip h OS I. do, down to Boston, don’t you darst to tell her I wasn’t readin’ the contemptuaries!"— Youth's Companion. When He Was Not Looking. MODERN instance of avoiding Scylla to dash upon Charybdis comes from the Washington Star, by the way of Uncle Eben. “’Tain't good to be too skeery,” said the old man, “I once knowed a gemman dat got his mind so tore up ‘bout germs an’ bacilluses dat he didn’t look whah he were goin’, an got run ober by a truck.” G ADSBY: Here's a funny misprint in this paper. It speaks of “contributions to the champagne fund.” for is? Bimptesy: Oh, the printer who set it up had been in politics himself—Boston Tran- Script. How do you account comicbooks.com