Life — March 1, 1906 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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270 Unavoidably Detained. (Looking over the Senate chamber the New Vork Sun observes, seats will be observable, .*. K: Vacant as, where one seat is nominally held where a similar by Burton, recently convicted at St. I situation exists with respect to the seat of Senator Mitchell."") Where Burton used to be ; T seat is in the tier He served his Country man (And now he's serving three.) ya year, Another empty chair! ah, when Did Mitchell drop from 1 his (His sentence served him right.) He also serv untrymen, Ah, shame that honest s bev; the 1 (U's careless to be caught Ry corporatic Should do an Is any statesman worth the name In this delightful vale Who cannot play a bunce game Vet keep away from jail ? y Judge may be a thief And every Trust a hy ator must come to grief Who plays the yellow de And though a high-soule May re May * and dor —yet he must not s brown He sentenced to do time r high upon the Senate wall Is writ this Word of Doubt “TAKE ALL THAT'S COMING — BUT RECALL THOU SHALT NOT RE FOUND OUT!" Wallace Irvin Recent. A NOVELTY in’ swindle- of marrying various stealing their money and moving on to the next town to nee matri- ashions is a neat little trick women in rapid successi repeat th The champion long-di ac seems to be Mr. Hoch, who has recently made the operation. confession—or was it a boast?—that he had married thirty at esqueness as a purple incident in our dull, gray life; but time. This matter has some pict two wives, on has a further value in relation to the much-diseussed ques- rimously main- nd that it th joined The puzzle is to find just what part God had in Mr, Hoch’s rty-two and just where the sacrament stands. Does each es enjoy 1-32d part ? And isa sacrament divisible f tion of divorce, The preachers almost u ble sacrament, ler whom God 1 tain that marriage is an indiss« is infamous for man to put ast through His human represen’ atives, weddin: of the wi into vulga’ ctions ? Historical. TEACHER: Jotnny, who was Joan of Arc? Jouxsy ; The wife of Noab, who built it. NSTEAD of acting as a lubricant, S! rather to clog the wheels of Justice. ndard Oil seems *-LIFE- A Serious Matter. HE apparent indifference of women, and especially of New York women, to the subject of clothes calls for the friendly intervention of President Roosevelt Missionary etforts should at once be put forth in aid of some of our more unfortunate sisters whose strange apathy is so apparent. We recommend special prayers for them in the churches Possibly Mr. Rockefeller’s Sunday school may start. the movement. Friendly calls should be made upon ladies residing in the vicinity of upper Fifth Avenue with a view to getting them to pay more attention to dress. As a nation our sense of innate modesty is rapidly becoming a misfortune. No effort should be spared to cheek it. The men, no doubt, will be very keen to spur on this Committees of husbands should be at husband circle should meet in every grand movement. once organized locality where the danger is greatest. Of course, any woman of any real social instinets is naturally desirous of looking her best. But alas, the fatal spirit of simplicity and economy keeps her down! is so often chd in a plain, old-fashioned five-hundred dollar gown, when one for $750 would be so much more in keeping with her surroundings. Only by constant prayer and fasting may she hope to strike the right combination of style and color. Look out- ward, not inward, and lend a. purse! A Precedent. R. MORGAN Mr. Hoe would be unwilling to tur Col When a ce: 2 told her husband she expected a party of guests that day, and he thereupon made haste to put away all the umbrellas in the hall, she asked - “Do you fear my guests will steal your umbrellas?" nd he replied : “No, that they'll recognize ‘em." a squad of a professors loose among their literary treasures. Ver Vard ain won I* sentiment remains what it is, the outlook would seem to. be that Mr. Roosevelt have to continue to be President until Buster Brown comes of age. DRAWING THE COLOR LINE, comicbooks.com