Life — June 1, 1905 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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HE oldest American Pianofortes, recipients of 129 First Medals and Awards, bear this famous name. The recognition of their su- periority leads the purchaser to pay cheerfully the somewhat higher price asked for them. Castotue ~~ CHICKERING & SONS = Patblished 796 Tremont Stroot, Boston SOZODONT: Apollinaris Spring. positively beneficial, deliciously fragrant, gives ' perfect satisfaction. Ask your dentist. A Bosom Hardened. O I put faith in her, ‘This woman Titian haired, This Juno careless clad, And with the mild blue eye, For she had spoke me fair: And at the last How she my bosom wrung! Aye! And with pleasure unconcealed, And a calm indifference That one might feel who, cruel, Sets heel upon a harmless worm, She viewed her crushing work, And yet, With feeling that "twere doubtless well, And knowing not how hard She'd make this thing for me, I turned no show of sorrow to the world, Nor felt one pang. And, had she not dared To trifle with its further weal, Not now beneath my bosom, hardened thus, Would I be harboring curses deep, 'Gainst her and all her ruthless kind | But, ah! that bosom was Of finest Madras web and woof, Front of the swellest outing shirt That ever cost five dollars, net, And soft as filmiest silk It should have hung, and limp ; But she—this laundress mine— She starched it! Aye! Starched 1t stiffer than a hemlock board! —New York Sun, A Girl’s Essay on Boys. OYS are men that have not got as big as their papas, and girls are women that will be ladies by-and-by. Man was made before woman. When God looked at Adam He said to Himself: “Well, I think I can do better if I try again.” And He made Eve, God liked Eve so much better than Adam that there have been more women than men. Boys are a trouble. They wear out every- thing but soap. If I had my way half the world would be girls and the rest dolls. My papa is so nice that I think he must have been a little girl when he was a little boy. Man was made, and on the seventh day he rested. Woman was then made, and she has never rested since.—Ladics’ Home Journal. Great Little Men. (CANON KINGSLEY not long before his death drew attention to the number of short men who could be seen in a London crowd. He looked upon it as a sign of the deterioration of the race. But there are those who look at it as an indication of progress in intellectual lines at least, for many, if not most, of the great men of history have been below the medium height. Canute the Great was a singularly small man. Napoleon was undeniably short, Nelson had no height of which he could boast, and the great Conde was hardly more than five feet tall. Hildebrand— Gregory V1I—the greatest of all Popes, was quite a diminutive person, Montaigne was short; so was Pope, “a little crooked thing that asked questions;” so was Dryden, and so was Scarron, who alluded to himself as “an abridgement of human miseries,” on ac- count of his short stature and ill health— Kansas City Journal. comicbooks.