Life — January 5, 1905 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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Put a Letter in the Advertising Columns. SVE. been reading Lawson's letters in the New York l dai I've been watching how antagonists have jumped into | press; the mess ; fave [learned from this how I may reach old John D ? Well, Lg Puta letter in the advertising columns, If you want to tell King Edward that his beard is out of cate; If you want to tell Miss Roosevelt her hat is not on { you want to tell Czar Nicholas for vict'ries—-he must wait— | Put a letter in the advertising columns. If you want to ask Carnegie for a million dollar note; If you want to ask H. Rogers some new company to} float ; If you want to ask Une? Russell S. coat— ¢ to buy himself a Put a letter in the advertising columns If you want to order: * Emp'ror Bill, don’t write an- other play !" If you want to make Rud Kipling give his genius graft away! If you'd have J, Pierpont Morgan come to lunch with you some day— Put a letter in the advertising columns, If you want to say to. Paderewski, your ringlets If you want to say to Sargent, “Sir, your portraits are asmut! If you want to say to Irving, mut !"— Pot a letter in the advertising columns, As an actor—you're a And if you'd run a newspaper, or popular magazine— It may be ooly a country shee od * Home- Fsome p side Queen "— If you want to get your news or pictures of your stories | n— Put the whole bunch in the advertising columns f Horace Barnes, Kickers’ Column. Te nie Enron oF tire | Asan old admirer and well-wisher of Lire, whose | weekly arrival is looked forw to with pleasure, 1 | venture to express my regret to see the illustration by ntainly is not funny, and the only possible point of the pic rec fortu- ident which served to in tive South, more to be pitied The itt the flam mans in their blackguardism, an: to nate i the supersensi« condition of mind for which they are n blamed, on, to my mind, is only adding (uel to nd is calculated to stimulate the Varda- afirm them in} their mistaken belief as 10 President Roosevelt's atti- cro. If this illustration had ap- crn paper it would have surprised no tude towards th peared in a Sc one ; but in Lire, it is certainly calculated to be mis- Mlerstood, and is much to be m vu see how jealous Tam for the success of Lire. I want it to take high ground every time; it geaerally does, Believe me, sincerely yours, PHILADELPMA, DECEMBER 21, 1904. HF. > THE Epttor oF Lire. Dear Sir: | was much surprised at the caricature of the Harvard football team which appeared in one of the last numbers of Lire, The tone of it struck me as Phrasing Lever of the ANGELUS T never dis- appoints, it never fails. To be a master-musician, to express your idea of your own favorite music, is the rare pleasure in store for you. Any of our Agents will gladly show you The Angelus Name of nearest Agent together with handsome booklet mailed free THE WILCOX & WHITE COMPANY Established 1876 MERIDEN, CONN.. U. S. A. ntlemanly standard. Harvard men quite unworthy of your usual ¢ Please permit me.to say that many beside myself find your joke in bad taste, Sincerely yours, Roger Gilman, Harvard, '95. New York, DrcestHeR 21, 1904. o THE Epitor oF Lire. Dear Sir; May I take the liberty, based on a distinct liking for Lire, which 1 purchase frequently, of expressing an opinion that the drawing, ** Harvard's Football Eleven of 1909, Under President Roosevelt, of Harvard,” in the Christ and not at all in the spirit of the season, or in line with the humor one usually finds in Lire, pad taste s issue, is in very This was my opinion when I first saw the drawing — which is undeniably witty—but its satire is useless and the possible sting is not balanced by its wit, I only write this after hearing others voluntarily express the same opinion. I am cordially and sincerely, George E. Crosby, Jr. HARTFORD, CoNN., DECEMBER 20, 1904. comicbooks.com