Life — June 21, 1906 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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Poet Laureate which appears in the New York Independent “The Coming of the Daffod ure of quoting madcap lambs ng as. one tim of the cheat, w .d his sweet in the love-lanes meet, 1 face each other, rms in his world-wi jad and smother We sincerely hope the laureate has no intention of appeopriat ing to himself the field that has so long been exclusively occupied by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Also as a guarantee of good faith we THE TOUCH THAT FAILED was a struggling writer in the front studio and a strug- st in the back. ‘The struggling artist was very nice to eling writer for a time. He even helped her wash her windows once. ‘Then it came about that one Friday he saw that she had a well-filled envelope, which contained some fives. “Twish,” said be, “that you would lend me one of those fives. T'm hard up this week. I will pay you back next.” struggling writer knew all about those “next weeks” of ing a would," said she, “but Iam afraid I will lose your friend- ship if Tdo. ‘Things like that have happened to me."” He looked at her sternly “You'll lose it if you don’t,” said he and set his teeth hard RATTLED He had been told that he might “ask papa,” and he bad planned to do it in these words “T dare say that you know, Mr. Rocks, that I have been pay. ing your daughter Madge marked attention of late, and now | have come to ask her hand in marriage. I know that [ama poor man, but Iam an honorable one, and Tam not work. We are willing to fig! © of life as bride and bridegroom, pilgrims of life, together. I love your davghier devotedly, and J have come to ask your consent to make her my wife.” ‘That sounded all right when he read it for the fificth tine from the sheet of paper on which he had written it; but this was what he really said when he stood before Mr. Rocks, » teeth chattering and beads of cold perspiration on hi “I—I-dare say that—that is, Me. Rocks, I—1—you daughter Madge has been paying me marked attention —¢r, oo, T have been paying her marked atten willing to fight—or the battle of life—I m secks my hand in marriage,er no, I—I and—TI love you—or no, your daughter I mean she—she—that ist ve come to ask your consent to be my wife—that is | Jove you devotedly—your daughter I mean—she loves me {raid to offer as a companion piece to the stanza just quoted the following deveeedig-noj¥ sarenl that 1 leek herseand she-cshe=s] fee bes I make my meaning clear, sie.”—Lippincott’s Magazine ots while her offspring scoots LOVE IN REAL UFE Ifa novelist ended a story the way a real life love story bas ended in Providence, R. 1., the women would say, “How un. natural.” Twenty years ago W. R. Smith married an 15-year. old girl. He was 53 year id at the time. grown up children and Mrs. Smit While the rooster For the worm t Perceiving a distant shelter, Forget the love they've been babbling And go f jer-skelter.” y have now teo has fallen in love witha LARGE FOR ITS AGE Old Jacob Wyckoff, a farme town, had made a present of his larg editor of the will: per, and the nately the were bound to love each other he would se wanted to make in the same house. ne place was just outside t yellow pumpkin >¢ wrote an item ackbowl: wife is devoted to her new husband A Boston love story which has found its way into the papers tells how Grover Cleveland White, 18 years old, was engaged to the family of another subscriber. ‘This is the way it appeared in Juinette Swanson, “The two quarrelled and Juinette talked int to him. Hee mother took his Pour olf Townsend. is celebrating Ul seer wae aN ee MCE eee eee cooked his meals, mended his clothes and washed au ‘The newcomer i STIG WAS SMO TO. BATE PERSE O82 for him. He has married the mother. She is DUT A FELLOW IN NEED i ber young hus ; Bear FOUND "TWAS ALL CIICKEN-FEED, all over it, and wei,’ fifty-six pounds. ‘There isn't a flaw in it 2 pereee Atchison Globe anywhere, except a dent made by our fool office boy, and t AND SIE REALLY WAS POOR AS A CROUCIL doesn't 1 T,as we are going to cut it up at once.” —Youth's JOHN DREW AND THE FRENCH ACTRESS Com; . —— It was the social duty of John Drew, the actor, not ton UNCLE SAM FOOLED 1 you take that letter to the post-office and © boy who put it in xed with an item announcing the birth of a baby in \d besides that her rrival of very image of its Itis one of the large cornfield Variety, with huge bumps toescort a young French actress of great personal charm. oa her to New York. to a roof garden. The orchestra was VIGILANT FIDO ndious air as they ent seated the actress asked Mr. Drew the name of the sekectina, “+1 Love You, 1 Love You," replied Mr. Drew yea know,’ returned the French girl with an appreciative gh coquetry, “but ze tune zat zey play, Mistaire Drew, vat cc Ladies Home Journal. playing a very m J. and after teing In the barbee-shop the scissors clicked a barber's dog lay on the tloor close beside the chair, looking up intently all the ice dog, that He is, sir,” said th le seems very fond of watching you cut hair” * explained the barber, smiling.” Aw take a litle piec her, I seed a lot of men putting letters in a little place, and when no one was looking I slipped in yours for nothing.”"— Harper's Weekly ras having his hair cut name of cet?” SOMETHING DOING (broke): Yes, I'm making a good deal of progress. ‘The sheriff has just begun to take an interest in my paintings — Flregs B 7 Somerville Journal Werner you go out for a long walk,or fora ride in your auto fa customer's mobile, in either case you may come home in the electric car to foreign countries in the bers, after three months Lire, is published every Thursday. $5.00 a year in advance. 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