Life — May 17, 1906 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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A Fable for Poets SIGN over the door of the editor of a popular magazine reads: POETS TAKE NOTICE Chatterton. Raleigh, Mar: Fickell, ‘Tannahull and Boston Transcript. Long-Distance Jane N OLD farmer was skeptical as to whether peopie who were miles apart could really cach other over a telephone wire One day his wife went to maki tant friend who had a telephone in her hous : the afternoon the farmer visited a near nbor who also boasted a house telephone and who persuaded the farmer to call up his wife as a | wing instructions he put the receiver to his ear, and, after the usual preliminaries, he then a flash of lightning caused by the the summer day struck the wire, and he g to the floor. The neighbor was rined that the old man should meet with such fenton his first trial of a telephone, and assured him that such a thing would not happen But the farmer was of the possibilities of communication, nd would not try again. He rose to and shaking his he i s wonderful; Home Journal. that was Jane, all right. The Corporal’s Argument UCH reasoning,” s military argument, soning of old Corporal Sandhurst. . D. Grant in reminds me of the y drilling a v of raw recruits is it,’ he said to a bright looking chap, : blade of your sabre is curved instead of curved,’ the recruit answered, r to give more force to the blow.” aid the corporal. ‘The blade iscurved soas tofit thescabbard. Ifitwasstraight w would you get it into the curved scabbard, i ”"—Chicago Chronicle. Boston Transcript in a recent editorial says: tains are worth a thousand hospitals and a rude Atherton in “The Aristocrats” gives some of the tiful descriptions of the scenery in the Adirondack ains that have ever been written. In ber book you get se of the ideal camp life in that glorious region: fhe Adirondack Mountains and How to * which is No. 20 of the New York Central Lines’ ©-Track Series.” containing a fine map of the Adirondack tains and adjacent territory, with useful information in to hotels, camps, lakes, rivers, ete, send a twocent to George H. Daniels, Manager General Advertising Central Station, New York. Department, Room 4s, Grand More Characteristic | 1AT millionaire baby up in Fifth Avenue | CZAR SIZE can make its first articulate sounds.” “Goo-goo, I suppose ? “No, dough, dough!”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. | CIGARET and sold Ii Americans are rapidly finding out what Euro- peans have known for a long time—that a Russian Cigaret of high quality is the only one in the world worth the attention of a connoisseur. Americans are naturally the most discriminating | people in the world, once Mey are given a chance to discriminate. 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