Life — December 6, 1906 — page 54: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

There is probably not a club in the world where men of taste gather—in Yokohama, Calcutta, Paris, St. Peters- burg, London or New York —where the name “NESTOR’ is not a synonym for the best cigarette that can be had. Every nation, except the United States, buys at prac- tically the same price the “Nestor” Cigarette made in Egypt. Therefore we have duplicated our Cairo factory in Boston and,are making for Americans a cigarette which is just as good as the one made in Cairo. It sells at 25 cents for 10 NESTOR GIANACLIS CO. BOSTON AFTER THE EXPLOSION Owner : AXD YOU SAID You KNEW THE WHOLE THING FROM A" TO MZ!" Chauffeur: on, NO! 1 Sato FROM “A” TO “e." Joyous VISITOR (to arcas young wife): Whatever were youtwo laughing over so just now? Wire: Oh, it was such fun! My husband painted and I cooked, and then we both guessed what the things were meant for.—Fliegende Blaetter. FTER Governor Stokes, of New Jersey, had signed the beneficent “Barber Act,” a bill that will do much to prevent the future watering of stocks, a Trenton statesman said to him: “So-and-so, the millionaire, was sure you would not sign this act. He isa conceited chap. He believes that his way of thinking is always the right way.” “He is conceited, truly,” said the Governor, smiling. ‘He reminds me of another conceited man I used to know. “Two mutual friends sat near this man at lunchcon one day. “What makes him look so glum this morning?’ said the first. “Why the other, ‘he visited ‘gyptian palmist last night, and the fellow told him his wife would marry twice and the second husband would be a remarkably fine chap.’ “Aha! He thinks that rather a reflection on himself, eh?” “¢Notatall. He thinks his wife was married before and never told him.’” —Bufjalo Enquirer. A ELY and venerable professor one morning, being unable to attend to his class on account of 2 cold, wrote on the blackboard: “Dr. Dash, through indisposition, is unable to attend to his classes to-day.” ‘The students erased one letter in this notice, making it read: “Dr. Dash, through indisposition, is unable to attend to his lasses to-day.” But it happened a few minutes later that the professor returned for a box he had forgotten. Amid a roar of laughter he detected the change in his notice, and, approaching the blackboard, calmly erased one letter in his turn Now the notice read: “Dr. Dash, through indisposition, is unable to attend to his asses to-day.” —Argonaut. “T_JOW in the world did you happen to be run over by the automobile?” “T was trying to dodge the ballast that the balloonist was throwing down.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. ETHICK LAWRENCE, husband of one of the “suffragettes” im- prisoned in London, has promised to subscribe £10 a day to the woman’s suffrage fund for every day his wife remains in jail. Whether Mr. | Lawrence is actuated by sympathy or gratitude, deponent saith not.—Vew | York Tribune. Comicbooks.com