Life — December 13, 1906 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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A MODERN SOLOMON Joseph Choate, the famous lawyer, related at a dinner party Lenox son ting reminiscences of the bar and bench, "A striking case,"" said Me. Choate, “transpired in Te was a case of a workm claimed to have tos about the explosion. and there wasn ared: but the physi wutly declared doubt that the workman's eye claimed th The heard all the evidence pro and con. ‘Then sending the workman fro 1 th green ta pair of spectacles with ordinary clear glass s for the ri of an hour of so, was done, ‘Then back and he was ordered to put th a blackboard and write a sentence on i mon and the judge said ackboard round and see if you can read what is written xd the sentence without hesitation, whereupon him sternly The man can impester. You must eft eye, for the red glass en writing black and made it Cincinnati Enquirer. ¢ case is dismissed. You have read that sentence with yc over the right one tumed th visible on the istackboa! NEW LAMPS FOR OLD Johnny's ce. His pet th have been that allt < were created to be desteoyed—at his practices ted. of Tige, and at last they decided to work upon with lucre. Johnny's folks were anxious fe day, “IL give you five dollars Johnny gasped runt, swallowed hard at thought of and said he would think it over. The next day at dinner he made the laconic announcement “Pa, L got rid of Tige.”” Well, I certainly am detighted to hear lere’s your money: you've cared it. How did you get rid said the father. ¢ nuisance?” Traded him to Bill Simpkins for two yellow pups.” answered Lippinc SUNDAY REST FOR BAKERS What, you want the Parisians to eat hard bread oa Mon. advance . 10 cents Lire is published every Thu n. $1.01 4 sear ex 00 a yea urrent THE FAITH OF A CELESTIAL A Chicago gamble visit a Chinaman’s esta ble almost daily. One Hip, loan me $10. anid pay you to-morrow noon, if I'm aliv with the money, About 3 o'clock the next af £ the gambler dropped in on the Chin: Seorge today?" and the cor his eyes with the corner of hi dead." —The Ea hment and smoke he rushed place said, excitedl: Vl con where is ing Celestial wiped 1: George, “ou. WOE 1S ME! 1 SEE BY THIS NATURAL MisTORY THAT I aM EXTINeT HIS HEARTBREAKING TASK "Darling," said the bride, "I had a terrible feeling of sadness come over me this afternoon—a sort of feeling that you were doing something that would break my heart if T knew of it Think. sweet, what were you doing, now, this afternoon at four “Dearest,"" replied the husband te “at that hour [ w rly and uringly, licking stamps and pasting them on en- vel Ladies Home Journal. A TRISUTE TO THE CHILDREN Mr. E. S. Martin says some pointed things about chikiren in his essay on “The Mind of a Child” in the December Hur er's Magazine, for which Elizabeth Shippen Green bas painted some cf her loveliest child pictures. These are a few of Mr. Martin's remark: “The littler they are, the better, because farther removed from the world that is ours, and deeper p in their owa world, A good baby ra constituted smiles at the sight of it. hey are busy, they are cheerful; as.a rule, they seem to be kind to one another. They are not bored, and y weather is insufferable, or they are sick, 1! What philosophers! What heroes! Is ¢ of an unperverted child should be the Christian ideal? great merit of children as companions Ties in the t of their tolerations. They are easy to please, agreeable t propositions, and not very critical. “They do not "know better"; that is one of their d traits... . Children will trust you, and that is one of the mo gratifying compliments possible In the company of children you have relief in co what will pay. ‘The things that they do, and prefer to do, do not pay, as a rule, except in the doing of them. “Wise elders who are qualified to train the,mind of a child are pretty scarce. The next best thing is the elder who is wise to respect the child's mind. develop in a sympathetic atmosphere by its own natural peo esses." cs peace. Every one who is rightly id give it a chance to HEREDITARY IRASCIBILITY Herbert Bismarck had none of his father’s bright wit in con: versation, but had his overbearing temper and his mother's violent irascibility. She had the disposition of the Frankish woman as exemplified in Fredegunda, but held in check by Bismarck in anger was as ternble as 3 ferocious mastitl. She, far feom restraining him, kept on “Good de oat him (or at her); good dog. of tantamount words, ‘The mastiff that lay below the » Bismarck grew more and more infuriated, especially if the ‘evening before he had eaten and drunk copiously. With thee parents, Herbert, Jane and Bill Bismarck could not be expected to have courteous manners. Herbert, who was no stranger ia Paris and whom the fond father hoped one day to send then ambassador, was bulky, sullen and revealed an angry state of the blood, Gambetta said of b “He reminds me of a limb of the law hardened to the work Laying on executions—in sbort, of a low-class bailiff (recers London Truth a complexion USELESS Do you intend to inaugurate any great reforms this y Senator ?" asked the beautiful gi “No,"" replicd the statesman. “My peesent term will aot expire until 1909.""—Chicago Record- Herald, FORCE OF HABIT ‘They were excavating Herculaneum. *s got the franchise?" exclaimed th ined later that he suppased, subway scheme.—Piiladel phia Ledger K numb ‘The International News Vor guarantee of purity, see back \abel oneverybdiile nats WAY be returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed d are not to be reproduced. y change of address MOFFAT. YARD & COMPANY NOW READY EVERYWHERE The VON BLUMERS This FINE STORY DEALS, with the ROMANCE end HUMOR of MARRIED LI. 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