Life — February 21, 1907 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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“ETP ES “Driven Back to Eden” ARK TIAIN recently bought a farm in Fairfield County, Conn., adjoining that of his biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, and it is said that he is about ready to build a beautiful villa. If this direful news be true, The Great American Humorist will fade from the public eye for some time to come; for if there is anything more delightfully engrossing than building a country-house we don’t know it—unless it is getting acquainted with one’s first autocar. Prophetically, we see Mark’s lyre hanging, limp and tuneless on an apple tree while he watches the mason mix the mortar, or goes out to feed the chickens. r near neighbors Mr. Clemens will have the militant Ida Tarbell, Miss Jeanette Gilder, Alden Weir, Frederic Remington, Dr. Eastman and many others known to the literary world. Most of us, at one time or another, have felt the Lure of the Farm, and it is the automobile that has made the real country home a practical possibility for those who toil in the city. When it comes down to the matter of creative work, however, it is a question whether there is not more real isolation in a top-floor room of a city house, with the roar of the city below, than on a hilltop or along a mossy bank. Dame Nature in every mood challenges our absorbed attention, and the solitude of the country isn’t in it with the solitude of the noisy city and the crowded streets, if one can escape the people one knows. We play harder and work harder in the four winter months that constitute our complex New York season than do most folks of other lands in the course of the whole year; and perhaps that , in the springtime, we babble longingly of n villas, sunken gardens and the more sim- ple joys of pasture-land and strawberry-beds. HILE Lire’s stock of languages is not run- ning particularly low, we are always glad to have another. Witness the following: L’AMERIKA ESPERA STO REDAKTORO! ARTHUR BAKER: EDITOR Ox.anosa Crry, January 15, 1997. Eprtor Lire: Dear Sir—Doubtless you have long ago formed your opinion as to the merits of Esperanto, the inter- national language. I hope that it is favorable, but as s much irresponsible criticism of Esperanto, I want to offer an opportunity for every thinker to judge for himself. 1 have had prepared 100,000 grammars of the language in pamphlet form, one free to any person who is suffi ed to ask for it, enclosing stamp for due to this great movement international auxiliary language, which now s thirty nations in its scope, that you publish his letter, so that your readers may have the oppor- unity of judging for themselves. Very cordially yours, ARTHUR BAKER. L’Amerika Esperantisto (The American Esperantist). Oklahoma City. P.S.—If at any time you desire late and authentic information concerning Esperanto, command me. ALB. By all means, we should like to sce that gram- mar Eo Captivating Car Studebaker Electric Victoria-Phacton “The Automobile with a reputation behind tt” ELECTRIC CARRIAGES Simple Control— Reliability— Elegance Studebaker Electric Cars—the Runabout, Stanhope, Victoria-Phacton, Special High-Speed Stanhope, and Coupe—meet every demand of the most exacting private cartiage service. In appointments and in design, upholstery and finish, they possess the perfection always associated with Studebaker productions. Mechanically, the Studebaker is the most successful type of electric car. Its operation is within a child's understanding. Its construction in the vital parts is of that thoroughness which permits no seen or unseen flaw. ‘The body is scientifically suspended upon two pairs of superb springs. A distinctive feature is the distribution of the batteries’ weight upon both pairs of springs. ‘This method produces a far easier riding motion than has ever been attained where batteries are suspended below the springs, For fuller details send for complete catalog of electric and gasoline automobiles. Studebaker Automobile Company, South Bend, Ind. Members Ausctation of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers ORANOMES. NEW YORK CITY: Stodebaker Bros. Co. of NewYork CHICAGO, IL SAN FRANCISCO, CAL: 5 KANSAS CITY, MO.: Stadebaker Bros, Mig. Co. PORTLAND, ORE.: Stadebaker Bros, Co. Northwest SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH: Studebaker Bros. Co. of Utab. DENVER. COLO,: Studebaker Bros. Mig. Co. DALLAS, TEX.: Stadebaker Bros. Mig, Co. @ELLING AgeNTe BOSTON, MASS.1 Prentiss Motor Car and Supply Co, PHILADELPHIA, PA.: Titman, Leeds & Co. BALTIMORE, MD. Auto Supply ana Storage Co, WASHINGTON, D. C.: National Automobile Co, CLEVELAND, OHIO: Central Automobile Co, TOLEDO, OHIO: Kirk Bros. Automobile Co. CALDER's 25 95:950% Sot DENTINE Teeth CALDER’S SAPONACEOUS DENTINE The oldest and most fect tooth rder fc clang and penis te wah tod por At Shops. Sample Traveler's Size, 10 Cents ALBERT L. CALDER CO., Providence, R. 1. CALOER'S NAIL POLISH Dardg | se, Established 1874 Rare Plants Floral Decoration Prompt reliable service Forty-Fourth St. & Madison Ave., N.Y. comicbooks.com