Life — December 6, 1906 — page 52: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE > Johann Maria Farina Cologne is the original and only genuine cologne. You cannot buy a preparation of the same composition under any other name. The formula is a secret one that has been kept in one branch of the Farina family for over 200 years; it never has been disclosed to an outsider. “Gal THE BOTTLES AND THE LABEL Say” The trade-mark above is closely counterfeited by imi- tators save for the name of the United States Agents, Messrs, Schieffelin & Co., New York, which is printed in red at the lower left hand corer of the label. Be sure that the bottle you get has that name on it, also note the word Gegenuber in the second line. To assist in remembering it, cut out the facsimile. ine Johann Marla Farina Fan de Cologne ts put up ta three ies of bottles, which are shown here” There is a delicacy ance of the genuine that Ad Old Mr. Moon : LAND SAKES, HEPSY, I'VE SEEN QUEER SKIRTS IN MY TIME, BUT, BY JING, THAT'S THE THINNEST THING I'VE SEEN YET! Took Their Sadness Pleasurably HE late Lady Curzon, formerly Miss Leiter, of Chicago, when Vice-reine of India, had a hobby for collecting specimens of “Baboo English,” the imperfect English spoken or written by the natives. The following from a nyalty."* which givesthe stor manufacture asi complete means of idevilscatlon.alvr ll siecs es. If your desler does Bet suyply toe geauine. us and we will tell you how to get it. scat ed) write Schieffelin & Co., New York *:itiz'sérc,"* native firm in Bombay is a good specimen. Two brothers are notifying their customers of the death of their father: ‘Gentlemen, We have the pleasure to inform you that our respected father departed this life on the roth inst. Hjs business will be conducted by his beloved sons, whose names ‘n below. The opium market is quiet and stationary at fifteen hun- dred rupees a chest. Oh death, where is thy sting? Oh grave, where is thy victory? We remain, etc.”—Woman, 'OHN FISKE, the American historian, was an ardent lover of music and himself no mean musician. Furthermore, he was extremely corpulent and felt the hot weather painfully. He was once delivering a course of lectures at a summer school in a small city of the middle West. The heat was terrific and adjoining the house where the lecturer stayed was a church where an ill-matched but zealous “quartet”” practised and performed during all hours of the torrid afternoons and evenings. One evening, secing the famous,man sit for a time unoccupied and apparently oppressed by this combined affliction, the young daughter of his hostess attempted to divert him by offering him a new novel, then just becoming popular. “T think ‘The Choir Invisible’ is perfectly splendid, Mr. Fiske,” said she. “Wouldn’t you like to read it?” ‘The historian put the book aside. ‘My dear young lady,” said he, “‘the only choir in the world in which I could feel any interest at this moment would be the choir inaudible.” —Argonaut. A Resigned Advertiser WIDOWER living in a village near Cambridge is advertising for a wife: “Advertiser (widower) desires to find good wife. She must be Church of England and a communicant ; aged from forty upward ; able to build her own house, as advertiser is in possession of good one ; no encum- brances. Advertiser feels himself very lonely in the world through what could not be avoided. God’s will be done on earth and in heaven. None need apply except in own handwriting.” —London Globe. Te& for the Superstitious HE : Now that I have your answer, my darling Elizabeth, let me ask you one question. you superstitious ? Sue: Superstitious? Why do you ask, Franz? “That I can only tell you when you have answered my question.” “Well, then, Iam not in the least superstitious.” (Greatly delighted): “Then I may tell you. You are my thirteenth fiancée.” —Wiener Salonwitzblatt, EN A perfect complexion is assured to all who use this Soap. Its transparency is a sign of its purity FERD. MULHENS, Cologne o/R, Germany AU LIENS & Wi 205 Hiroadway, Sew York Send 15 cents in stamps for a fui? size sample cake comicbooks.com