Life — March 7, 1907 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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ple people, with only the vaguest sense of Romances inevitably resulted. A cer- or, at any rate, in the New World, proportion, were willing to trade tobacco tain planter, for instance, had only a and that she weighed 180 odd, do for wives, a pound of tobacco fora pound hundred pounds of tobacco, over and you suppose he repined? Not a minute. j of wife. Of course there were not lacking above what he needed for his own chew- Love laughs at locksmiths and even unscrupulous merchandisers to take ad- ing, and when it transpired that there jokesmiths, whom almost nobody else vantage of their simplicity. was only one girl in the world for him, laughs at. The lady simply did without v4 VARTISWC HAIR * 3 CUTTING A LOAD OF PEACHES FOR JAMESTOWN —+~=— comicbooks.com