Life — January 3, 1907 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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

ls ed lay nd ing vas, on in, sa - - it SO sacha a attendant el Rata nihil ans Charge of the Orthographic Brigitde ALF a word, halfa word, Half a word sundered, Allin a fight to death Rode the three hundred. “Forward the Simplified, Charge it to me,” he cried; “Pm on B, Matthews’s side— Boom the three Into the document print Went the three hundred. Departments to right of them, Departments to left of them, Congress in front of them, Scolded and thund Stormed at with words of scom, Lambast horn, hree hundred, Departments to right of them, Departments to left of them, Cong’ ot after them, nd thundered. Chased from the Capitol, Bundled out one and all, Back to the way to spell— None was there left to tell The fate of three hundred. Thus did their glory fade. Oh, what a fuss they made— All the world wondered. Hooray for the stunt they tried, He for the Simplified, three hundred. —Providence Journal. Rule for Hospitality N WASHINGTON, GA., the first town in America named for the Father of His Country, lived Gen. Robert Toombs, one of the bril- liant lights of hospitality in a country where social instinct is second to nature. A committee once waited on General Toombs to consult him about erecting a hotel in the town. “We have no need of one,” said General Toombs, simply. “When respectable people come here they can stay at my house. If they are not respectable we do not want them at all.”” —Youth’s Companion. DURING the siege of Kimberley the editor of the only daily paper there was often: hard put to find enough news. One day in a club-room he found Cecil Rhodes reading a fairly new paper from Cape Town. He borrowed it and rushed to his own office, where it soon appeared as a special edition, selling like hot cakes. That same evening he met Mr. Rhodes, who inquired: “Where's my Cape Town paper?” “Oh, I cut it up for the printers,” was the reply. “Please don’t do that again,” said Rhodes, mildly. “That paper came through by native runners and cost me $1,000."—Argonaut. ye —- OS SS “A pint’s a pound the world around.” The imported “NESTOR’ Cigarette is a quarter every- where but in the United States. The Frenchman pays his franc; the English- man his shilling; the Italian his lire; the German his mark, but the American has had to pay for duty. Therefore we are making the “Nestor” Cigarette in America expressly for Amer- icans—the same tobacco, the same blend as in Cairo— but in Boston, so we can sell “Nestor” Cigarettes in Amer- ica as cheaply as they are sold elsewhere in the world. Twenty-five Cents. NESTOR GIANACLIS CO. Cairo BOSTON London To sweetly wedge your way into Best of all Old English Relishes Y/ her affections keep her well j, Y yy g Vp Yy SAUCE: and Confections STEPHEN F. WHITMAN &S0N, 1316 Chestnut 8t., Phila, z comicbooks.com