Life — April 11, 1907 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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| SE ANCIENT ANCIENT AND AND GLORIOUS GLORIOUS OF OF CORDIALS CORDIALS Liqueur mest Pd {tes chart LIQUEUR Peres Chartreux —GREEN AND YELLOW— cordial, now at Tar. ra n, was for cent distille by the Carthusian Monks( Péres Chartreux ) ai the Mouastery of La Grande Chartreuse, and known throughout the world as Chartreuse. The above cut represents the bottle and label employed in the putting up of the article since the Mouks' expul- siou from Franee, aud it is now known as Liqueur Péres Chartroux (the Monks, howerer, still retain the right to use the old bottle and label as well), dis. tilled hy the same order of Monks, who have securely guarded the secret manufacture for hundreds of years, and ho alone possess a knowledge of the cle- ats of this delicious nectar. Atfintclase Wine Merchants, Grocers, Hotels. Cafes, Barjer & Co.,45 Droadway, New Vork, N.V-y de Agents for United States. EXTRA DRY CHAMPAGNE, Its not only the bert American champagne. but the best champagne” | M.D.'s with a turn fo | loss of weight just after death by the well-recognized fact that Jothers. Mr jthirst 09 a raft, the a ORTCHESTER, N. ¥ To mr Eprtor or Lire A Boston physician says that the soul is material ‘The Boston physician argues thus: ‘The weight of a man is per ceptibly diminished immediately after death the departure wf the soul, whichy having weight, is material his ix because of | Weight isan essential quality of materiality. ‘The elimination of the soul is the very fact which constitutes death, fram life dis tinguished. The difference in weight is more than a coinci It is incontrovertible evidence of the soul's materiality We are not post-mortem experts, We are not even speculative | the sensational, but we account for this ence. | imal There immediate disintegration is a consequence of death in the Disintegration is actually a sort of synonym for death. isa very practical test which we would recommend to the Boston soul-scaler. Let him try his" Betore and after" weighing stunts on a horse, a rabbit, a kangaroo, a whale and a guinea-pig. He will find an interesting set of gradations in the relative loss of weight in each. Then, he will be up against it. It will mean that man’s loss of weight after death is due, as we have said, to disin tegration, or else it will mean that the horse, the rabbit, the kan- garoo, the whale and the guinea-pig are possessed each of a soul, How do we know that all these animals suffer an immediate and appreciable loss of avoirdupois just after passing away? Easy. We reply to this hypothetical question with the same logic as that used by Pat (Mike's brother), in the notable instance when he replied to the query of the King of Ireland concerning the number of stars in the firmament: “ There are 4.788,877.35: so2 stars in the sky, yer Mayesty,” says Pat, “'an’ if ye don’t be- lieve it, go out an’ count thim fer yersilf Hexey P. Wat MEAD. ROOKLI ASS. Dear Lije—Vour issue of March 21, 1907, fowing. “A New York traveling man says that the reason Boston called ‘the Hub * is because it is the slowest purt of the wheel.”” Was there ever an occasion when the hub did not “get ther a3 soon as the wheel ? Bostostax OL? POINT COMFORT, vA. » THE Epitox or Liv Dear Sir—Why that convulsive upheaval of caustic vitupera- tion against Miss Corelli? As a faithful reader of your paper and an admirer of your satirical precepts, I must enter_my ontains the fol voice in protest against such pucrile criticism as appeared in your late issue toward an earnest, conscientious, hard working woman whose only crime (2) scems to be that of giving toan unappeecis tive world an eloquent and beautiful interpretation of Christ's message to mankind I trust the spirit of fair play and unbiased judgment, with which y apposed syaice to these few lines, which are written in a spirit of emphatic protest against a totally undeserved and uncalled for display of literary spleen directed toward one of the most gifted writers of the present axe Very sincerely yours, March y, 1907, Sasent B. Bouanr. pe endowed, will prompt you to give AT BEAK SPRING WATER “Ite purity bas made it famous,” STAGE SEAS Mr, Alfred Lester, the popular Gaiety comedian, has told a funny stage sea story, which leads me » a remembrance ‘of Lester, like most comedians, started his staj Whiting Papers for fine correspondence or for gen- eral business uses are the standard. A popular example of Whiting’s exquisite product is French Organdie which shares with ORGANDIE GLACE the favor of ladies of refinement, for their social corre- spondence. For social or business correspondence Whiting Papers meet all requirements by their su- preme quality and finish. Obtainable from best dealers in stationery. Whiting Paper Company 148-150-152 Duane Street NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO Mills—Holyoke, Mass. career asa player of heroes, villains, “heavy fathers" and other a ditty little expiring of tthe scene, famili figures of melodrama, aod one night, felt to his ann etic, was provoking expkaions of un ter. The more he raved of the | ming him, the more the people in front were ter. Mr. Lester thought them the hardest 1 ever played before intended to be mest pu succesfully thirst appressed ls bat consumed w hearted wretches he until he knew what had been the caus I appeared from information from the that a scene. shifter, instead of lowering a back cloth of perilous rocks, introduced into the scene of received ad rbulent waters the peaceful | picture of a country inn, with fields of poppies in the distance. The spectacle of a thirsty mariner calling huskily for “watah while there were “licensed premises” almost at his elbow in the raging ocean naturally struck the audience having its CHEw... THE ORIGINAL Pepsin Gum » + Cures Indigestion snd Ses-sickoess. humorous aspect.— AF LP. Beeman’s ‘AML Others are_Imitstions. cooeoeeeeeecececs