Life — September 13, 1906 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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AN IDOL IMPROVED FD AT SEUSSORS, AT, NU) es ee [OR MT JSR), AME Nyllv) _— Of course, the picture’s meant to please The writer has some taste, 1 note; I ‘A SOLILOQUY WHY THE MISSIONARY DESPAIRED \ charming combination these (Giove liSai to Be the Speaker) ‘The Rev. Frederick 1. Bridgman, the noted and successful A girl in white, a stream, a boat! ‘ issionary to the Zulus, was talking in Philadelphia abot Bryan or some one else—that is the question. ie ea eo Zalus, talking in Philadelphia about ‘Aad yet the:coloring is blurred. pee ‘tis nobler to forget the past he picture lacks in details, too bidsh eae “Lam very hopeful of it he said. “1 may be a littl: too sibs picture lacks in deta hopeful because T have had such good success. It is better, though, to be too hopeful than too doubting ™ Much depends upon the character of the people one works Some further vagueness one condemns, among, and I can sympathize a little with the missionary who Since to us both it’s evident returned home from China in a despondent mood Only the silvery upper Thames “A Chinese convert stole this misdonary's watch and th Can give your true environment Insul sncers of Populistic malice For instance. there's no hint o¢ word Or to take pst the Bryan wave ‘The girt in question, Belle, is you! And by opposing end it? to vote, to sp For him, and by that vote to say Tend ‘The hear nd the thousand natural shocks ‘That Bry eatens —'tis a consummation Devoutly to be w To vote, to speak; came back to him the next morning to barn how to wind it up ‘To speak, perchance to lie, ay, there's the rub; rex Aes wel ’ begs —Philadel phia Bulletin Not where their craft the oarsmen steer, Not where the penny steamer plies; When T attempt to prove that he’s the goods ; T would not have you, Belle, appeae, This gives me pause; there's the respect “The cynosure of vulgar eves— ‘That makes King Thee of so long life; For who could bear the rotten tariff tax Cortelyou's wrong, the vile insurance le The pangs of hope long-thwarted, the law's breakdown, “The insolence of office aad the spurns F iti M the advertiser takes, When he himself might his release effec “WITHOUT ™ Supporting Bryan? Who would rebates bear, D The German girl who presided over the soda fountais is And grunt and sweat under a weary life i Heckelmeyer’s drug store was accustomed to pattons who dt But that the dread of something after Bryan, § f Wye, not know their own minds, and bee habit of thought was dice ‘The application of his wildest theories, to change. ‘The chilling fear of Hearst, puzzles the will “I'd like a glass of plain soda.” said a stout man, entering And makes us rather bear the ills we have one day in evident haste as well as thirst ‘Than fly to others that we know well of ? ‘ “You have vanilla, of you have lemon?” tranquilly ingeited ‘Thus conscience docs make sceptics of us all; , f 7 ¢ young woman, And thus the great desire to win one want plain soda—witbout syrup. Dida’t you undersast Before I die is dimmed and dulled by d ¢ me?" asked the stout man, testily. ot who said I ne'er was Democrat S = “Yas,” and the placid German face did not change io e And so [cannot just yet think that T pression or color. “But wat kind sirup you want him miu Should bow the knee to Bryan Mitout vanilla, or mitout kemoa?”— Youths’ Companion Indiana polis News. For in that speech for him what lies may flow But moored beside a thymy bank, Or on the lazy tide afloat; For their great gifts the gods 1 thank: A girl in white, a stream, a boat! —London Tribure Mrs. Flynn: THERE YOU GO—LENDIN’ O'HAGAN FOIVE DOL- THE GREATER DIFFICULTY SARGENT'S BLIND PUPILS LARS AFTER ALWAYS SAYIN’ YOU'D NEVER TRUST A MON WID A gentleman driving an automobile on a country road. am Mr. J. S. Sargent tells of an artist in Paris who had much BLACK HAIR AND A RED MUSTACHE writer in a Virginia newspaper, met an oid: fast difficulty in getting his pupils to make use of the extremely Mr. Flynn: 18 Att RIGHT, DARLINT, OF MADE HIM SHAVE carriage in which was an old-fashioned couple. They ja=~ “impressionistic” ideas of 11 OFF BEFORE Ol HANDED OVER THE MONEY. to the ground and the automobile came to a halt One evening, at a larg ‘The gentleman of the car stepped forward, and offered gentleman next to him, who was very short-sighte c ——— help lead the horse past the machine. gentleman at the foot of the table appeared to him. “Oh, never mind the horse, never mind the horse.” said te Well,” replied the nea ed one, “Lee a very whi LOSS AND CAIN ‘old gentleman. “ You lead the old lady past that thing. aed I’ shirt-front, and a flesh colored spot, which Two Americans were being shown through the citadel of get the horse by all right.” 7 Quebec by a British soldier. Halting at a certain spot on the "exclaimed the artist enthusiastically, “how L wish my parade-ground, theit guide pointed to a small cannon. “Wao is that silent man sitting next to Fraulein Elsa?” apils could see things as you do!"—Searchlaght. “This, he, “is a gun we captured from the Americans Phat? Oh, that’s Ludwig XIV at the Battle of Bunker Hill.” * Ludwig the Fourteenth ? Goto is an idol worshipped in all climates without a single Quick as a flash came this reply: “Yes; his name is Ludwig, and we call him "The Fourtcese® temple, and by all classes without a single bypocrite.— Mirror: “Well, as we kept the country, we can afford to let you have the because we only invite him when we find we are going tM Record g0n" =F. G. Blakestec, in Lippincott’s. thirteen at the table."—Fliegende Blactter Lint is published every Thursday, $5.00 a year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year extra, Single current copies. 10 cents. 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