Life — June 21, 1906 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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Punch Recipe By a well known chef. Cut out and preserve Foi loaves sugary diced orange and pineapple and a few cherries. One large cube of ice; pony of cognac; pony of curacoa; pony of apricotine; one split carbonated water, one quart’ : COOK'S Ghampagne Strains of Modern Life MUST admit that the accessories of nodern life in general are placing greater ater strain on the faculties of the indi- e strained by the intense artificial . his ears are worried by the unnecessary in of the streets, and his nose is offended by the vorization of offensive fumes of oil or by fetid air of the “tube.” That simpler life eals to him more thag ever which removes him from the maddening sphere of the inventors’ activities. —Lancet. Light Without Work, Waiting or Danger F YOU try. to make gas for your auto lights in the old way, with a generator, you must have patience and wait—you must make up your mind to fix carbide, get water, blow out pipes, clean burners and do a lot of other disa- greeable things. eo e There is one way to escape the difficulties, however—and only one. All the labor, uncer- tainty and danger of the old-fashioned way can be avoided by getting gas ready for use—gener- ated in advance. ‘That’s exactly what Prest-O-. Lite gas is—pre-generated acetylene gas, of very high illuminating power, condensed for con- : = PAEST-OLITES eee } GAS TANK 4 [Tea and compressed y, non-flickering, always reli- illiant light. labor for the user. You simply turn the gas on and light it when you want it, just as you do the city gas in your home. © 0 0 © When a tank is empty, it can be replaced with a full one for the cost of recharging. Send for our book, “Ready-Made Gas for Auto Lights.” o 6 0 o We will send you a copy, postpaid, by return mail, with our compliments, for your name and address in a letter or on a post card. Write to-day, to THE PREST-O-LITE CO. DEPT. 320, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Over 4co Supply Stations-one in every Important city In the U.S. Ask for Iist of them, In Need of Revision HE. pastor of a leading Boston church an- nounces the subjects of his sermons on a large bulletin-board prepared by the sexton. One Sunday recently the evening sermon was to be on “Hell.” Passers-by were a good deal startled to note that the lower part of the bulletin-board had on it these words in large and fiery red letters: HELL —June Lippincott's. The Talk of the Day DANISH paper compares “I love you” in many languages. Here are some of them— the Danish paper is our only authority for their correctness: The Chinaman » “Uo ngai ni”; the Armenian, “Ge sirem ez h the Arabian, very shortly, ““Nehabeeck”; the Egyptian, simi- lar, “N’achkeb”; the Turk, ‘“Sisi sevejorum,” and the Hindoo, “Main tym ko pijar karyn.” But overwhelming is the declaration of love of an Esquimau, who tries to win the chosen one by the pleasing sound of the dainty little word: “Univifigssaerntdluinalerfimajungnarsigujak.” “SPIRITUAL ADVICE” The Lady and the Forty Mo8ctaxa had just poured oil over the forty thieves. “1 suppose,” she remarked, “there will next be a novelist around to say they aren’t properly canned.” Herewith she calmly awaited the inevitable. —Sun. SUSAN CLEGG AND HER NEIGHBORS’ AFFAIRS By ANNE WARNER. The inimitable Susan Clegg and her friend, Mrs. Lathrop, in these new stories are even mote irresistible than in the first series. With THE WIRE TAPPERS By ARTHUR STRINGER. A surprising story, brimful of dramatic inci- dents, “A really fine specimen of the fiction of excitement done by a skilful hand.”* Frontispiece. $1.00. —New York Globe. —New York Herald. Illustrated, $1.50. “An original plot worked out with an amazing cleverness.” THE SAGE BRUSH PARSON By A. B, WARD. action and of interest,” to quote Life. $1.50. A vigorous story of Nevada mining-camp life, “full of THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY By WILLIAM SAGE. author of “Robert Toumay,” etc. Aron, skllly writen romance of present day political and financial life, in which a son of high ideals is arrayed against his father, a tru magnate. $1.50. A MAKER OF HISTORY By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. Life says it is many stories, and is heartily recommended to seekers for exciting reading.” LITTLE, BROWN & CO., Boston Published “the most daring and consistently sustained of his Mlustrated, $1.50. Atal Booksellers comicbooks.com