Life — September 6, 1906 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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‘The Maine State entomologist has discovered a pea-green cockroach.— Mexican Herald. ‘The next stage is sky-blue kangaroos with purple wings. HERE scems to be a certain confusion in the fire insurance mind con cerning the rights, duties and obligations of policy-holders.—San Francisco Argonaut. Not the slightest. The policy-holder must pay exorbitant premiums and, in case of loss, collect if he can Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tokrate their violation by others.—One cf Abraham Lincoln's early speeches. Yes, and drive the lawyers and high financiers out of business. Miss Ida Simonton, of Pittsburg, is going to Africa to kearn the monkey language.— Philadelphia Press Is the lady excluded from the parvenu circles of Newport? wy be Mr. Bryan says thefe are other things in life beside office-hold: Houston Post Continuous office-seeking, for Colonel? nad A Wena Pope Pius X. has confided to St. Christopher the duty of watching over Vork Tribune Judging from the accident columns, the Pope ought to appoint some other saint to help Christopher. I Me, Comstock's art education may be deficient, but he has a good eye for Portland Oregoaian. ally for the advertising that m who pay his salary believe he earns it Recent developments incline us to believe that the National, of Hartford, is a ‘Sai Francisco instance. Eh, motorists as their patron sain es the simple folk company with which no honest man should have anything to do. Argonaul Fire insurance and life insurance seem to be running a close race. m A Society for the Suppression of Vice may be at the same time a Society for Mf Indecency—New York Sun As he looks at it, it's The Society for the Salary of Anthony = the Suggestic Senator Depew's automobile was recently hel Lup by a constable Washington Star I's a shame to interfere with a Senator who's only trying 0 get strong enough to write a resignation. SS w Yors has a new kind of gold brick game Chicago News Iv’'s called “Guess the dividend,” and is worked by dis- honest railway presidents. Mis announced that Mr. ryan will leave for the antipodes immediately after the November elections of the current yeat.—Cincianati Commercial And for his regular t More celebrity for Mr. Longworth. Would he have been chosen to that policy-holders’ committee if things had been different ?—Lowell Courier. He seems headed for the presidency of the Mutual. With Paul Morton president of the Equitable, the New York is the only one left for Leonard Wood. Si How old is a woman at thitty-five?—Baltimore American In many cases she has just reached the age of indiscretion. KE A man in Boston fell asleep at his open window, fell out, broke his back, got up and walked into the house and went to bed.—Laltimore American. Only another example of the superiority of the Boston mind over matter. Om Sal ‘The naval review in Oyster Bay will cost the Treasury half a million.— Rochester Herald. Who cares? Pa’s rich. Enter, the New Season IKE the bear who has been sleeping and sucking his paws in a cave all winter, the New York theater-goer at this time of year sallies forth lean for the indulgence of his Stage appetite. Years since he learned to leave the roof-gardens to the gullible out-of-towner, who could be made to believe that they were cither gardens or amusing. The “shows” in the places of his summer sojourning have been too crude to appeal to his metropolitan taste. He comes back with new zest and almost with a new belief in the alluring advertisements and announcements of the theaters. es + E WILL find that his theatrical hunger has been anticipated ‘n carlier than usual this year. Now that the theatrical business is no longer an absolute monopoly its activities both commerical and artistic have received a new impetus and the competition which is the life of art, as it is of trade, spreads before the theater-goer a feast of new things from which to choose. se 2 8 A POWERFUL play, remarkably well cast and staged, is “The Kreutzer Sonata” at the Manhattan. Its theme is morbid and its climax tragic but the story takes an immediate hold on the interest and its development and th. incidental character-drawing are done with a simplicity. 5 ind directness that mark its author as a dramatist of ore and ability comicbooks.com