Life — December 27, 1906 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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a A Table of Measures HE had visited for the first time at the home of the merry-eyed Irishman who did odd jobs at her place. As she was leaving she tripped over a baby, and recovered her balance by clutching a boy’s shoulder, while two little girls bumped heads over the privilege of restoring a fallen glove. “How many children have you, Dennis?” she asked, laughing. Not so many as ye’d think, ma’am,” an- swered Dennis, apologetically. “’Tis the scram- bling and tumbling of thim desaves the eye. There's no more av thim than oncet around the table and a little felly or so left over ating on the durestep.” “But how many is that?” she persisted. Den- nis smiled a wide, cheerful smile. “Sivin, is it? No, I’m thinking it’s ilivin. No, it can’t be ilivin because it’s short we are yit of the Widdy Mahoney's number, and that’s ilivin, according to the brag of her. Well, maybe ’tis nine, but annyways ’tis oncet around the table and two on the durestep.” “That's a new way to reckon,” said the visitor. “By no manes, ma’am,” asserted Dennis. “OTwas me grandmother’s befure me. Me grandmother had twinty-one children befure she died, and kape the count iv thim all as they came along, and which was dead and which living and which wuz immi, ed, she never cud do it, small blame to her, nor me grandfather, ayther. So they tuk to counting by tablefuls. "Twas but a rimnant of the family and rale lonesomelike they felt thimselves with on’y oncet around; oneet wid a stool or two exthra and the small childher in lap was betther; twicet around was fair; and wid three full settings and clearings, me grandmother wud shmile ac the taypot, and then sigh and say, consideringlike “If on'y thim that’s in Ameriky was wid us the day, it’s a foine family I'd be having to satisfy me ould eyes. Ah, well, sorra an empty seat may .there be in hivin!? “She was a foine woman, me grandmother; Dut I can’t consate mesilf she'd think me litle family here annything to brag of till we can reckon ourselves beyant oncet around.” —Vouth’s Companion Forgotten “Wyo is your favorite composer?” inquired the artistic person. “T can’t say just at this moment,” answered Mr. Cumrox, with an appealing glance at his w “but it’s somebody whose music I can’t remember and whose name I can’t pronounce.” —Washington Star. DAA3¥ persons sill be surprised to learn that the potato is used in France in the manu- facture of imitation meerschaum pipes and “marble” billiard balls. After the potatoes are peeled they are kept for thirty-six hours in an 8 per cent. solution of sulphuric acid. They are then dried and pressed hard enough for use in making pipes. Under strong pressure they be- come solid enough to be tumed into billiard balls.—New York Tribune. “King Edward Golfing on Baltusrot Links.” El Principe de Gales AL the club, at the office, on the links, at the fireside—wherever the place and whatever the occasion,—there is no cigar smoked by so many fastidious smokers as El Principe de Gales— known, wherever a good smoke is appreciated, as “The King of Havana Cigars” Tt dominates its field by sheer merit, and, in the di sixty years, has never been rivaled in popularity by any production of Cuba or the United States. In no other cigar made in this country is used an equally high grade of Cuban grown leaf. _In no Imported Havana cigar is used any better—for no better leaf is grown. EI Principe de Gales is to-day the best-known and most popular of high-class Havana cigars—a significant fact to disc-imi- nating smokers. A mild cigar, with the true, inimitable, Havana fragrance. Made in more than 150 sizes, priced from 3-for-25c. to 25c. each. Sold everywhere—no other Havana cigar in the world is so widely distributed. HAVANA-AMERICAN COMPANY New York, Tampa and Key West PAN Frequent Spring Parties, First-class throughout, $625. 30 Tours to Or citer 7, by S.S. Arabic (16,000 tons) rient Cruise February 7, by S.S. Arabic (15,000 tons Aaron ' ss FRANK C. CLARK Broadway, New York Undivided Estates Exclusively address upon receipt of six cents in postage. SPENCERIAN PEN CO. - Sample card| 55 BROADWAY, NEW containing 12| pens, differ- ent patterns, sent to any 349 Broadway, NEW YORK BOTTLERS, NEW YORK OLD CROW RYE sTRAtanT WHIS KEY rn Sy comicbooks.com PE | JENNER & COMPANY YORK + Cable Address *dewmloan™