Life — November 1, 1906 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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Who Was Who “A Guess at Former States of Statesmen and Writers F COURSE, everybody—who isn’t a mere amateur at the business—has lived before. With no previous experience, one wouldn’t have the slightest chance of living now . . . and making a living at it. Bernard Shaw, for instance, lived very often before. He started as Adam, who, it may be remembered, was a vegetarian not only with re gerd to diet, but also in the matter of clothing. Then Shaw became Sophocles, and did well. After that, he rested. In the fourteenth century he was a carrot and won prizes at it. Later, he degenerated into Shakespeare, a mere meat-ater. It was a toss-up whether he would be reincarnated as Clement Shorter. But he lost. Next time he will be Super-Shaw. Lord Northcliffe began as Napoleon. Keir Hardie used to be Boadicea. Since then he has, of course, become more patriotic. Presumably, Doctor Reich devoted many years to being Plato. Savonarola is clearly still with us, as Father Bernard Vaughan. Hall Caine was never Shakespeareor . . . anybody else. If he is ever allowed another chance, he will probably be a great-great-grand- daughter of Marie Corelli. Beerbohm Tree was Garrick. So was Bourchier. I was Solomon and I liked is. Henry VIIL. lives in in King Leopold. F. E. Smith has improved very much since his Cicero days, and Paul Reubens appears to have forgotten his Wagner period. (N. B—It is absurd to imagine that Siegfried was ever Richard.) Absalom is now specialist The Kaiser learned a good deal as Ahasuerus, derick the Great, Velazquez, Dante, Colum- Louis XIV., Molitre, George Washington and Mother Shipton.—Pall Mall Gazette. Professor Sims, the hair M . SARAH GRAND has been exploiting the art of happiness, says a cable dispatch tothe New York World. London has taken he: conclusions as pretty sensible philosophy. Inci- dentally it has enjoyed hugely her compliment to “smart” society. Here are some of the things Mme. Sarah said: “Men understand the art of happiness better than women. A woman is penny wise and pound foolish. She denies herself, and makes herself miserable in her saving, while a man will have 800d sense and spend his money on himself and make himself happy. ‘At the moment happiness is to be found in the simpler and less expensive modes of life. The quiet entertainments of the poor are happier than the magnificent affairs of the rich, whose indifference and insolence to their guests is equaled only by the chronic state of irritation of their guests toward them. “In ‘smart? society s it is called, to dis- ting uish it from good society—there is no such ing as ‘noblesse oblige.’ When we say that life is not worth living we are taking the surest steps to make it so.”— Argonaut, * test of the chemist youches for Studebaker materials. © It is his specifications which the iron and steel mills follow when they fill Studebaker orders. 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