Life — September 14, 1905 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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} FOUR Gove: ypacker’s invit ors have replied to Gov. n to have a confer- ence on the laws of marriage and divorce. at ¢ tsburg untry, with forty-five stars on the Gazette What is needed more than a confer- ence on divorce, however, is a confer- ence to adopt measures to prevent a silly people marrying each other who are unfit to be married. Then no erence on divorce would be neces- sary. It requires as much ability to get married as to do anything else worth doing well. Courtesy is an old-fashioned genth never out of fashion, Saturday Our Philadelphia friend evidently does not visit New Yor! Tuesday evening lightning struck Haines house without doing any seri Ocean Co. Democrat (Tom's Riz Whew ! So Thundering Jove him- self is after our friend ! Bishop Potter says a sermon ought not to ex- twenty minutes in length, In quaffing at the well of wisdom the long drink is, in his oj and it is something of an expert opini avoided. —I4 fon Star. The only difficulty in reducing the sermon to a twenty-minute limit is that we no sooner get comfortably to sleep than we have torisetoahymn. There ought to be more rest than this for the weary. Taft is telling the Filipinos that we are only going to hold them fora generation or so. How cle know what the next generation will umber.—Chivago N Probably, however, the next genera- tion will be doing just what Taft is— telling fibs to the conquered ones to keep up an appearance of honesty. ent Harper, the author of * The Mortgage on the Brain,” says that his * method " of writing Bubble World his stories is, “to loaf with a clay pipe in yo swapping yarns with "lo ns or any other men who don’t write—and then write like the devil." —Sook and Nevs-Dealer This seem to be going too far, The je recipe as indulged in by me of our ‘prominent’ authors, is to “write like the devil’ and to let it go at that. Wh: will possibly to whether fenders or everybody can ride in au les there h questions as e street cars are equipped We do not think that everybody will ever ride in automobiles, because then there would not be any one else to run over, which might induce enough of those—at present so keen at the sport —to give it up. ress insist « > What is the obstacle in s, asin other Why does not Con for th the way of reaso railway mail ble economy i branches of the postal service ?—.V We guess it must be Congress. Prof. Garner is going to West Afric 8 with his gramophone to study the ape language. —New ¥ ‘ork Su Why does the professor go so far from his own fireside? Why not get an invitation to pass a few day ewport? Russell Sage hasn't said anything about a wasted life, you observe. He doesn't know yet has been wasted. —Chicaco Journal. Uncle Russell never will, Tha one of the compensations of avarice. Reckless auto dri reward, and yet frequent warn afl generally br gs fail to impress the overclever eh: itimore Telegram. The man behind the chauffeur is the real culprit. He ought to be thrown promptly into jail every time his em- ployee is reckless—and kept there until further notice. 313 nd set on the 4 Worlds It might satisfy Norway to dig up throne one of her old vicki 0) Heraté Even then she would match favor- ably some of the other royal figure- heads of Europe. Mary MacLane is in Massachusetts, ¢ Harper's Weekly. On her vacation ? +r announces that he S pers 1 invention by means of which a the nething like thirty seconds. — Kansas Ci What is more needed is to fill it first. And some better method of doing this than those employed at present. A wives and to the p nessce boy of nineteen h y tough thing, the penitentiary, but probably better uh es.—Houston (Texas) Post. two living es. Pretty 8 two Ww This boy ought to have been born in New York. the d a of Women's. Stubs, and assistant general manager of the lin: exhibit of the woman's amalgamated depart- ment of the Topeka State Fair, went to Kansas City today.—Eidorade (Kan.) Ki blican Hail, Angelina! A poor laboring man in Denmark has made a nin Hfesaving. He impregnates clothes with a substance which will keep a ship- wrecked person afloat for several days witho losing its property. A coat, a vest, at rug—in fact, any piece of wearing apparel nated with the stuff is enough to keep above water.—Pittiburg B. tin, Recommended for use in Wall Street. “The time is ripe for the great play," says acontemporary. Th: the candidates for th overripe, not to say rotten.—Chicage Journal, far, h listinction have mostly been We are not sure that the trouble lies so much with the candidates, as it arises from the fact that the Theatrical Trust in its exploitation of foreign importa- tions practically shuts them out. Mrs, Clarence Mackay has upset the old theory that the rich cannot hope to get elected to any+ thing but the United States Senate. — Chicago RecordeHerald. It looks as though this theory might be still further extended to include some of our most prominent jails. comicbooks.com