Life — October 11, 1906 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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404 Our Fresh Air Fund URING the season just passed, Lire has taken one thousand and fifteen children to the farm at Branchville for a s’ outing. It is needless to s: that these children have been benefited physically, mentally and morally by this fortnight of fresh air and nourishing food. And the pleasure it gives them is more than for the passing moment. To quote Mr. Mohr: “We have had no sickness on the place, and all the chil- dren enjoyed themselves. So much so that I had to send many home again from the Grand Central, who tried to come to the farm the second time during the same season. Several, who had been here during some previous season, came uninvited, and paid their own trans- portation.” two weel STATEMENT There was no balance on hand at beginning of the season of 1906. Received during the season ... $4625 02 Expenditures Deficit at beginning of the season. $10 11 perintendent, matron, care help. : t. groceries, milk. ete.. children to and from 1860 82 1.440 81 885 20 THE REASON SWEET ALICE GOT MARRIED TO-DAY SWEET ALICE, SO PRETTILY BLUSHING: SHE MADN'T THE YAINTEST IDEA THAT THE GENT MAD ANOTHER WITE OVER IN FLUSHING! : LIFE Repairs on buildings, painting and sundry expenses soscbossires ® 30667 Total expense $4,543 OF Balance to 1007 Acknowledgments PREVIOUSLY. acknowledged. Ralph Roberts Sars § To this amount should be added the de fieit at the beginning of the seaswon.... $ 85.025 A Tribute HAT very popular and successful story-writer Anna Katharine Green is reported to ha aid to a recent inter- viewer: “I am just simple enough in my hero-worship to feel satisfied that 1 have been able to distinguish myself sufficiently to have received heart letters from such masters as Gladstone and Wilkie Collins.” This is an interesting statement. dstone and Wilkie Collins were not sely twins of the intellect; and the author of he Woman in White (which may heaven make immortal!) might have been not unnaturally drawn to unbosom himself to the author of The Leavenworth Case. But a “heart letter” from Mr. Gladstone was more than an honor; it was an WHY THEY MARRIED THE international episode,which no simplicity of hero-worship can lessen into insignifi- cance. What wonder that the agitated reviewer, contemplatingthis phenomenon, should reverently exclaim : ‘How serious is the influence of such a writer in the destinies of men!” We wish the world could know how far Mr. Gladstone was influenced by Anna Katharine Green, Fiction is a power in the land, and Mr. Lang has just confessed that the book which came nearest to molding his career was Oliver Twist, “Captivated in extreme youth by the Dodger and Charlie Bates, I once very nearly yielded to the tempta- tion to relieve an elderly gentleman of his pocket-handkerchief.” If Mr. Glad- stone learned from The Leavenworth Case and its successors how to commit crime and to conceal it; if he applied the test of these remarkable stories to human nature, and read by their help the habits and thoughts of men, some sidelights might be thrown upon his political tactics. Under any circumstances, a heart-letter from his pen must have been in the nature of a sorely needed revela- tign. ‘The faculty of concealing his thoughts in words, of separating con- viction from argument, was not the least iking of the great statesman’s talents. Agnes Repplier. BOND IS A STRONG ONE THAT COUPLES THIS PAIR— A CASE IN WHICH JILL FOUND MER JACK IN RIPPING TY THIS STRONG BINDING TIE 18 THE JOY THEY BOTH SHARE 18 FRIENDS UP THE BACK! comicbooks.com