Life — April 11, 1907 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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“LEE C) AvT C| Hurry has robbed correspondence of its grace Nineteenth Century) Just a line to tell you, dearest Think that all at home Don't quite k Accident was late last night me, for by the merest Dined at club: quite spoilt the joints were— Not like our home dinners, duck Mad a hand at b the points were N luck. nal, tit shock So, some dibs would make you cheerful Sorry [have none to ful issed, pe end, Business calls just now are fo Fla and measles at the Jacksons’, "s wife's sloped (Brown's missing, too) 1d, and his plain Saxen's "t repeat to you Smith seems What 1 cal Well, there's no more news worth knowing: Cold’s worse—one that nothing cures Love to kiddies! Post just going. Always yours New York Globe So excuse sera Ir 15 wickeder to adulterate a man’s food th Who from me my 810 pick his Is my purse steals trash, but he who filehe health—well, he’s a The speaker, pushing away, with horror pocket ble murderer,” dish of preserved strawberries, went on adult sh the fo Hy do regard it as wickeder jul they: pou ct mf than to steal from him, jerater twice as severely as the pickp In a German court 1 once saw a shabby pickpocket— he had stolen two dollars rectly diulterating ¢ sentenced to six months’ imprisonment afterward a millionaire canner was convicted of ned beans with a chemical that was likely to With . but the German judge indignantly sen give you erysipelas or quinsy us the canner woukd have gotten off with a tenced him to two years “that the law does pendent “And L regret,’ the German judge added not allow me to make your sentence harder. PREPARING FOR THE WORST A French gentleman anxious to find a wife for a nephew went ent, who handed him his list of lady clients. Running through this he came to his wife's name, entered as desirous of obtaining a husband between the ages of twenty-cight and thirty-five—a blond preferred. Forgetting his hurried home to announce his discovery te wasnotatall disturbed. “Oh, yes,""she said, “that is my name. J put it down when you were so ill toa matrimonial The lady nis wife the doctors said we must prepare for the worst.” Press PUBLIC UTILITIES nafusion as to which side of the stre shoul “Let us make it which side the people stop. : the motorman, “to notice on and then stopat the other.” ¢ people on bot * Rut suppose ther sides?” ventured one less hardened by experic Oh, as to that,” replied the instructor, oly of course. it’s impos le." Philadel phia ¢ not to oblige ne in awh Ledger RIBBONS. he Panama Canal will yet stretch from sea to sea like a 1 person Just now it looks like a yéece of Washington Star ribbon of water." remarked the " Yes,"answered th ted Lape of a typewriter ribbon.” 1 PAt vou REE, OOD BATHE ATTY. A LONG THFRE ts NOTH ry WORDS OF CHEER Mr. William O'Brien, when he was last in prison in Ireland, The copy he read had been read by the former At the end of the Lamentations of Jeremiah this prisoner had scrawled, Cheer up, old boy! Ch spent the time in close study of the Bible. ‘cupant of his cell, + up!" —Manchester Guardian. Vis," said “Is Cassidy he simple ijot sez to me related to ye Did he say thot?" interrupted Cassidy “He did, an'sez Eto him: “If 1 tought Cassidy had wan drop ins, 14d cut it out of him.” —Inde pendent y blood in his v SAVED THE SITUATION She raised her head from his shoulder for a moment “Do you believe that exercise and lotions and toilet prepara tions will improve a woman’s looks?” she asked He presed ber blond curls back upon his chest They couldn't improve the looks of some women,” he said ~ Whove?” she asked “Well, yours and Violet Cochrane’s, for instance,” he replied thoughtlessty “I don't understand you,"" she said, raising her bead for the second time and chilling him with a look, “We are not at «ll alike.” “1 mean, he replied. turning her head for the second time and thinking quickly, “that your looks couldn't be improves because they are perfect as they are, and that hers couldn't be improved because no amount of work could make her pretty And the firelight flickered knowingly as she sighed a great sigh of contentment and relict, while he drew a deep breath.— Penn Pictorial, Mk. Hare, in his book, “The Last of the Bushrangers,”” say+ in the carly days of the Ballarat diggings in Australia . in abscess of the live th police officer was very ill wit doctors had all given bim up. A police magistrate had watched over bim night and day and when all hope seemed to be gone the dying man said to his benefactor “My dear fellow, you have been very good to me, and 1 Tam the only man in camp When Tam gone you may have want to leave you something. who has a pair of boot trees them.” The magist ‘The néxt day he went he sick-room softly, believing that his friend was dying or J, and took prssession of the boot trees; but before he « c owner, who had been watching te was very grateful ket out of the room with then and called out Just leave those trees alone. 1 uddenly started uy Come, come, now! J yet.” The sudden attempt to rise burst the abscess, and he re covered, Years afterward the boottrees used to be shown “Hife: preservers."—Rochester Herald. THE KISS. To the Editor 0} the World It has no value for caly one person. It is the expression of supreme happiness for two persons ‘The child gets it gratis. It is the right of children, the privilege of lovers and the mask of hypocrites. For a young lady it represents Faith, for the wife Hope and for the old maid Charity PIG New York, March 42, 1907 ew Vork World Axprrw Carxreis tells the following to illustrate that a Celt 1 is a Celt in Scotland as well as in Ireland In a sermon preached in a small church in Glasgow pastor, after inveighing against slothfulness, said, by way of «lim ow think that Adam and Eve went about the Garden of Eden with their hands in their pockets?" Harper's Weekly Lire, is published every Thursday. $5.00 a year in advance Postal U ingle current copies. 10 Back numbers ree months Saarbach's ge. Mayence, Gi Lire is for lees in Gee: The International News Company, Brea No coneiatton wit el rctaratd aalest Building. Ch: FE. C., Eng cunts. 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