Life — February 2, 1905 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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Glad She Went. [Twas ata New England county fair, and | two women a little beyond middle-age were | seated under a shade-tree by the entrance- s heard to say to the other: “So you've been out to St. Louis to the big E : | “Well, I enjoyed it first rate—better than I expected to. You see, I didn’t care noth- Jing about goin’ in the first place, but Silas he was dead set on goin’ an’ was bound 1 pr should go with him—said he wouldn't go unless I did—so [ went just to git him off, for T could see that he wanted to go the worst way. An’ I was real glad I went, in the end, for > gate, when one v position. How did you like it?” when we found that Si’s own cousin, Luella Ke Day, lived within sixty miles of St. Louis we i concluded to go out an? make them a visit, an’ the we did have a real nice time, She give me aT or makin’ marm'lade out o green s anew 4 | ther one for tomato pie. You ake a pie fit |to cat, but you'd be s'prised to know just how F Then one day ie grapes an wouldn't nk tomatoes would 1 oda pic they will m while we was in the a om at the fair a les an come in with a brown Henrietty cloth pa dress an’ cape, it give me an idee of just i how to make over my brown Henrietty cloth this fall. An’ a woman [ fell in with one day when T was resting in the shade on a bench told me how out of any kind of and a woman in i ce where cooking demon ‘en told me how to 1 nds of g e-spots b one f tions were y lovely batter- i cakes out of stale bread an’ oatmeal flour. Live an’ learn is my motto, so, after all, being g was kind o° glad I went, but, for real en fs joyment, I don't think the St. Louis show ; : . hegins to come up to our county fair."—J. L. M HE pre-eminence of these instru- Harbour, in January Lippincott’ ai ments is due principally to their exquisite tone. It is peculiar to them. @ No other maker, though prob- ably all have tried, has succeeded in reproducing it. A Question of Accent. RANCIS WILSON says that) Maurice I le the rounds of the M. gers in London, Barrymore o sof the th The Name Guarantees the b ighest Quality of Workmanship and Finish trying to get them to put on a new play that CHICKERING & SONS Barrymore himself had written. One of the Catarocve Free Es, managers to whom Barrymore had read the d 1823 796 TrEMONT St., Bost = oa play seemed much impressed. Before their in- terview had ended it had been decided to give the piece an early production and to have Bar- | rymore “do” the leading role. About a week after what Barrymore had supposed was the definitely agement had been yy actor received a note from the HE Stork—well, the stork has had something to do with all of us. Therefore, this picture possesses a personal interest for every one. It is one of those clever conceits that comes to a clever artist about once in a century. It’s worth framing. Matted. 20 x 15 inches. One dollar LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York City reached, th anager asking him to call. When Barrymore mded to the summons the manager said: I like the play, old fellow, and I'm going to b give it a fine production; but, really, I don't ow T can use you in the cast. Your beast- ‘ly American accent won't do at all, you know. ke it here.” “That's odd,” said Barrymore; “they tell me on the other side that I won't do on account of a my beastly English accent. What on earth am I to do—give recitations on the transatlantic steamers ?”—Harper’s Weekly. “Twe MERRY CALL" comicbooks.com